• earthworm@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    I wonder. Did they discover tomato sauce by trying to poison someone and got the wrong “this pasta is to DIE for”?

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      11 days ago

      A lot of the wealthy though they were poisonous due to eating off of pewter plates, the acid leached lead out of them, and clgave them lead poisoning.

      The poor started to eat tomatoes as a poverty food

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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      11 days ago

      “My dog got into the garden and he didn’t die after eating my entire fucking tomato crop, so they can’t be THAT poisonous” - Some Soon-To-Be Revolutionary Gastronomist, Probably