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Tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes are native to the Americas. That means that before Transatlantic trade, there were no hot peppers in China, no potatoes in Ireland, and not tomatoes in Italy.
That’s why if you ask someone in Bologna how much tomato to add to your Bolognese they will chase you out of town with a kitchen knife.
What did they use instead?
Tomaytos.
Oh hey is that like the Irish stew with Potaytoes instead of Potahtoes?
Which is weird, considering the dish was only invented in the 19th century, so tomatoes were absolutely available.
Italian cuisine in general has way less tradition that people think.
That’s documented serving. You don’t seriously believe that a slow stew on the basis of meat, wine and misofritto only appeared in the 19th century?
No, but at what point would you start calling it bolognese then? It’s every meat/wine stew from Bologna bolognese?
Imagine many common Indian dishes without tomatoes or chilis. How about the popular trope of a Native American on horseback? Horses went extinct in the US many thousands of years before Europeans arrived with a different kind. It’s amazing how quickly the cultural exchange happened so long ago.
Tangential fact: syphillis originated in the Americas, likely from llamas. It’s the only instance of a transmittable disease to be imported to the old world.
This also makes me a bit annoyed at the show 'Apothecary Diaries" as it depicts syphillis existing in China in the 700AD
They also depict a mushroom that only grows in Japan growing in China but the show is pretty anachronistic overall.
I thought Romans had syphilis and that’s why they were bald
Romans had lead poisoning
Only the rich ones though right?
Not sure, everyone’s water came in lead pipes. The wealthy had more lead though
The wealthy Romans deliberately added lead to their wine to make it sweeter
Tobacco would make a great name for a cat
People always look at you weird when you call Salsa a “concoction of nightshade fruits”.
wait, the cat is related?
Its a family photo, they don’t need to be blood relatives.
so tobacco is not related?
Yeah that one messes me up as well. Who of these birthed the cat? Who of these did the cat birth?
You never heard about mom having kittens?
Relevant Simpsons episode: https://youtu.be/DX08tDXPnz0?feature=shared
Potatoes? One of the “family” just decided to be a tuber?
… what? No, they’re all nightshade plants. Not the same plant, mind, but still the same family.
Get this, they’re so closely related that botanists created a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below.
Wild. TIL. Thanks.
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Here I was thinking tomatillos were separate
I can see a deadly link for nightshade for a few of them (like when potatoes turn green) but I’ve never heard of poisonous tomato facts… Are there any?
Europeans used to think tomatoes were poisonous. They referred to them as poison apples.
This is a default family in the Sims.
