How the Misrepresentation of Tomatoes as Stinking ‘Poison Apples’ That Provoked Vomiting Made People Afraid of Them for More Than 200 Years
www.smithsonianmag.com
The long and fraught history of the plant shows that it got an unfair reputation from the beginning
  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 days ago

    According to the tomatoes Wikipedia article, tomatoes were definitely domesticated and eaten by indigenous folk in the americas by 500 BC.

    My point is that the people who domesticated the tomato never feared it. Europeans propagated the myth that it was harmful and people who’d been eating it for millennia never took that seriously.