QuilotoaTIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
*europeans.
People in the americas had been eating them for a long ass time by the time the Columbian exchange happened
Not just Europeans, from the article:
“As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made its way to the table in North America, it was classified as a deadly nightshade”
Peppycito
finallymadeanaccount“God damn, this eggplant tastes horrible. Maybe if I add more salt … !”