In the 18th and 19th centuries the clippers ships from Connecticut had a lucrative spice trade to the East Indies and one of the spices that they traded in was nutmeg. The state’s nickname was for this trade. However, nutmeg looks like a wooden knob and had to be grated in order to be used, many of the buyers didn’t know this; they thought it was cracked like a walnut and they therefore thought that they were sold fake nutmeg. Also many unscrupulous peddlers sold wooden nobs craved to look like nutmeg, hence the phrase “Don’t buy a wooden nutmeg” and Connecticut became better known for selling the fake wooden nutmeg than selling nutmeg.
So answer “C” is the correct answer.
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