"Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free"
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It's a very North American-centred graphic.
The absence of peas, lentils, dates, pomegranates, sesame, millet, old world spices, nuts and beans (other than soya). The limited range of root crops...
Yeah, for folks in North America it may help to show where your most common foods originated. But it doesn't show where food in general originated.
@infobeautiful I’m missing Cannabis and Tumbleweed(!) on the Old World side, and on the American weed side at least the Canada goldenrod …
Hmm. As a European, the only things there I'd really miss are potatoes and chilli peppers (and other capsicums).
As for beans, the old world is MUCH better than the new. We don't only have soya (meh). We have haricots, broad/fava beans, cannellini, butter beans. Old world beans are infinitely better than anything we have got from the Americas.
@infobeautiful Wild. I've just always assumed that bananas and coffee were native to S. America. 🤔
@infobeautiful That disease trade-off didn’t go fairly though!
A weird coloring. Looks like none of the products came from South America, which is BS.
@infobeautiful no Spagetti Bolognese
No pizza
I wonder, if rome was already in Italy at those times
@infobeautiful I wonder if they roasted sunflower seeds and/or crushed them into a spread (like peanut butter)?
My conquistador went to the New World and all I got was this lousy syphilis.
@infobeautiful mad to think there was a time in Europe before potatoes, whole civilisation rose and fell in fact...yet no potato
@infobeautiful Not only tomato, which now is typically everywhere, also potatoes and corn, widely used now. The interesting fact is about how all of them have become the main ingredients of many (now) typical recipes.
It should teach how something new, unusual, in a couple of centuries may become a key tradition.
@infobeautiful @pozorvlak The Roman Empire was also, apparently, eggplant-free, which I find bizarre because they are native to Asia.
Tobacco and syphilis 👍
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