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From: "Evelyn Sell" <>
Subject: Re: UPDATE on tomatoes and LIFE in the 1500's
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:50:58 -0700


Has anyone heard that Cucumbers and Apricots could not be eat due to
them not being good for you.
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> I got this from my friend Joe Klatt in La Jolla this morning. He's full of
> information like this. I just love him.
> xxxxxoooo
> Louise in La Jolla
> In a message dated 5/6/99 8:54:20, writes:
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> >Hi Louise... wrong on the tomatoes... Tomatoes were not eaten in Europe
> >for many centuries because tomatoes were a "New World" plant cultivated
> >in
> >what is now Mexico and South America. The nearest thing to tomatoes in
> >Europe in the 1500's was a plant commonly found in Italy known then and
> >now as "purple nightshade" which is poisonous. Purple nightshade looks
> >just like a tomatoe so when the Spaniards came to the Americas and found
> >that the native population cultivated tomatoes they thought they were the
> >devils incarnate as they watched the natives eat tomatoes picked fresh
> >from the vine. Consider your reaction in those days of rreligious
> >persecution... you are watching a person of a different appearance and
> >different skin color speaking a different language cultivating poisonous
> >plants and eating them raw right before your eyes. That is why the
> >Spaniards slaughtered so many natives... they thought they were the devil
> >themselves. It was many years before the toato was recognized as a food
> >and transplanted for use in Europe. It was met with great resistence by
> >Europeans and several hundred years passed before they would begin to
> >consider eating a tomato. Joe
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> Hi Louise... wrong on the tomatoes... Tomatoes were not eaten in Europe
> for many centuries because tomatoes were a "New World" plant cultivated in
> what is now Mexico and South America. The nearest thing to tomatoes in
> Europe in the 1500's was a plant commonly found in Italy known then and
> now as "purple nightshade" which is poisonous. Purple nightshade looks
> just like a tomatoe so when the Spaniards came to the Americas and found
> that the native population cultivated tomatoes they thought they were the
> devils incarnate as they watched the natives eat tomatoes picked fresh
> from the vine. Consider your reaction in those days of rreligious
> persecution... you are watching a person of a different appearance and
> different skin color speaking a different language cultivating poisonous
> plants and eating them raw right before your eyes. That is why the
> Spaniards slaughtered so many natives... they thought they were the devil
> themselves. It was many years before the toato was recognized as a food
> and transplanted for use in Europe. It was met with great resistence by
> Europeans and several hundred years passed before they would begin to
> consider eating a tomato. Joe
>
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