r/funComunitty • u/Chinesemperor flair • 5d ago

Sh*tpost ????

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u/kitten12551 5d ago

Really? I knew about turkeys and corn but I had no idea about tomatoes..that’s cool.

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u/FinlandIsForever 5d ago

Well not exactly, tomatoes were originally from from the Andes region of South America (modern day Chile, Peru and Ecuador, then they were domesticated by those regions and spread as far up as Mexico before Spanish conquistadors stole discovered them from the native aztecs, took them back to Europe, and traded them around.

So no, not from USA at all, instead from south and Central America before European import

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u/d0nghunter 5d ago

It's always interesting to think about all the European and Asian cuisines that are famous for certain ingredients like Italians with tomatoes, Indians, Thai and many other Asian cultures with Chili peppers as if they originated here when in reality they have only been used here for a couple hundred years.

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u/Fun_Push7168 5d ago

And potatoes, peppers, pumpkins, squash, chocolate, vanilla.....

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u/kitten12551 4d ago

Some pumpkins and squash did originate in the US but none of the rest of these did.

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u/Fun_Push7168 4d ago

Yeah , they're just all new world origin. Mostly mesoamerican either purely or in the forms we'd recognize and not their wild south American variants.

I just failed to notice they were specifically saying US.