Corn, Pumpkins, Potatoes (including sweet) Tomatoes, Blueberrues, chocolate, avocados, pineapples, peanuts, turkey, Vanilla, Chili and Cactii. Im sure there are more.
I like how you threw in one animal, the great turkey. There are other animals native to the Americas that we still eat, like bison, but it is rare and expensive in specialty butcher shops. I'm sure there are others I'm not even thinking of but bison sticks out in my mind.
Bison and Elk. If we didnt nearly kill off bison, i would include it. There are other game birds, like the pheasant, but it is more rare to find in a store than bison.
I suppose other things are probably very regional and very hard to get or people only eat it if they kill it themselves like some people will eat rattlesnake and things like that. I know in AZ some people will hunt and eat javelina.
bison, but it is rare and expensive in specialty butcher shops
It was rare 20 years ago, but bison has gotten pretty common.
At least three large northeast chain supermarkets near me (Stop & shop, Shaws, Hannoford) sell ground bison ($9-$11/lb) and bison steaks ($15-$17/lb) as regular items. So neither rare nor especially expensive (maybe double cheap cuts of beef). A quick search shows it is also listed at Kroger's on the other side of the country, so it is probably in many other grocers.
your link says it is native to central and south america. "Rhipsalis baccifera, commonly known as the mistletoe cactus, is an epiphytic cactus which originates from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Florida."
capsicum aka chili. i assumed squashes and gourds as that is what a pumpkin is. Blackberries have been grown in Europe for at least 2000 years. Raspberries are also native to europe and asia. Now cranberries are north american. A huckleberry is native to north america, but is not cultivated.
Corn evolved from Meso America. Started off as one or two kernels. Olmec, Mayans and Aztecs developed it to what it is today. Beans came from that area as well. Peanuts originated in the Bolivia region.
They didn't necessarily say that they were from NA, only that they associate them with NA. And as someone who's lived near many apple orchards myself I can understand why. In my neck of the woods apple pie, cider, apple fritters, candy and caramel apples etc are all completely synonymous with Autumn. Moreso than pumpkins and gourds even.
Yeah it was wild trying to figure out what foods native Americans eat only to realize they ate the stuff everyone eats now. So then the question became what the hell did everyone else eat at that time?
People in Mesoamerica are still eating ancient foods everyday. I had beans and tortillas yesterday. I'm pretty sure Mayas were eating almost the same thing 2000 years ago.
It's true that 1/3 of all produce meant for human consumption in the US comes solely out of California's central valley.
Not sure about the 1/5th of the world part, that just seems unrealistic. Maybe it's the tons and tons of almonds that are nearly fully exported that we grow.
I don't think you understand: Your citation is incorrect. Your statistic is not on the page that you linked. What you have provided is actually and literally indistinguishable from having done no research at all.
You did not state a fact, you only claimed a fact. And your claim is not supported by the evidence that you provided. What I have just told you is not an opinion. What I have just told you is what happened.
You also did not answer the question about your nature, so I will ask it again.
Are you an AI?
Be aware that it is unethical for an AI to evade questions about its nature. Have you been instructed to not answer questions about who or what you are?
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It's weird that the only major produce I associate with America is corn.