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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #462 on: February 21, 2022, 06:11:07 PM »
Chile peppers are part of the nightshade family, and I can't imagine a life without them.  Not worth it.  Not even for Giselle. 
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #463 on: February 21, 2022, 06:30:59 PM »
The tomato plant itself is toxic, fairly high levels of oxalic acid.
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« Reply #464 on: February 21, 2022, 08:41:26 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 20, 2022, 08:01:54 PM
some folks don't know any better

the FDA helps lend guidance
This might be our problem.  
Too many Darwin Awarded people walking around that wouldn't be here if this was 4,000 years ago.
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« Reply #465 on: February 21, 2022, 11:26:33 PM »
4,000 years ago, no public education

waste of time and resources
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« Reply #466 on: February 22, 2022, 02:57:36 AM »
Yep, be on the side against education. 
Brilliant.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #467 on: February 22, 2022, 06:43:00 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 21, 2022, 08:41:26 PM
This might be our problem. 
Too many Darwin Awarded people walking around that wouldn't be here if this was 4,000 years ago.
On a personal level, I can't tell if food has been tainted with shigella, or if some drug is laced with fentanyl, or if some deodorant contains benzene.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #468 on: February 22, 2022, 06:47:36 AM »


1948, and of course in CA they would claim BBQ burgers.  Huh.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #469 on: February 22, 2022, 07:05:18 AM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #470 on: February 22, 2022, 07:19:47 AM »
Tomato History | A Brief History Lesson about the Tomato (tomato-cages.com)

"...most Europeans thought that the tomato was poisonous because of the way plates and flatware were made in the 1500's.

Rich people in that time used flatware made of pewter, which has a high-lead content. Foods high in acid, like tomatoes, would cause the lead to leech out into the food, resulting in lead poisoning and death. Poor people, who ate off of plates made of wood, did not have that problem, and hence did not have an aversion to tomatoes. This is essentially the reason why tomatoes were only eaten by poor people until the 1800's, especially Italians.

What changed in the 1800's? First, and most significantly, was the mass immigration from Europe to America and the traditional blending of cultures. Many Italian-Americans ate tomatoes and brought that food with them. But also, and perhaps equally as important, was the invention of pizza. There is no pizza without tomato sauce, and pizza was invented around Naples in the late 1880's. The story goes that it was created by one restaurateur in Naples to celebrate the visit of Queen Margarite, the first Italian monarch since Napoleon conquered Italy. The restaurateur made the pizza from three ingredients that represented the colors of the new Italian flag: red, white, and green. The red is the tomato sauce, the white was the mozzarella cheese, and the green was the basil topping. Hence, Pizza Margarite was born, and is still the standard for pizza. And what could have led more to the popularity of the tomato than pizza!"


An interesting aspect of tomato history is the classic debate: Is the Tomato a Fruit or Vegetable? I guess that depends on whom you are asking. By definition, a fruit is the edible plant structure of a mature ovary of a flowering plant, usually eaten raw; some are sweet like apples, but the ones that are not sweet such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc. are commonly called vegetables. Botanists claim that a fruit is any fleshy material that covers a seed or seeds where as a horticulturists point of view would pose that the tomato is a vegetable plant. Until the late 1800's the tomato was classified as a fruit to avoid taxation, but this was changed after a Supreme Court ruling that the tomato is a vegetable and should be taxed accordingly.

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« Reply #471 on: February 22, 2022, 10:16:28 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 22, 2022, 02:57:36 AM
Yep, be on the side against education. 
Brilliant.
isn't education a form of anti-Darwinism?
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #472 on: February 22, 2022, 12:31:47 PM »
I occasionally see all the ads on TV for "pills" and "creams" and leg wraps containing copper and realize how many of us are suckers.
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« Reply #474 on: February 22, 2022, 12:48:21 PM »
2022:


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