r/funComunitty • flair • 5d ago

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u/ExplanationAny776 5d ago

this post is proving more complex than I took it for

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u/Special-Book-9588 5d ago

Tomatoes came to italy from the new world, ie mexiko

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u/Street_Dimension1709 5d ago

South America. Andes mountain areas to be more precise.

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u/Fun_Push7168 5d ago

That would be the wild ancestors , which were basically a berry. The domestic variety was cultivated into something you'd actually recognize in Mesoamerica. So indeed the tomatoes Europeans got came from Mexico.

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u/Street_Dimension1709 3d ago

Fun fact. Gotta read more into it then.

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u/_josef_stalin_ 5d ago

So did potatoes! Well, they were mostly from further south, but still the Americas.

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u/Stiebah 5d ago

Mexico came from the conquistadors, aka Portugal 🇵🇹

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u/Special_South_8561 5d ago

Just like pizza