Started by Tomás Rinaldi (@tomas_rinaldi) ·
people thought tomatoes were poisonous
Related to deadly nightshade, so suspicious from the start. The pewter story (acidic tomatoes leaching lead off plates) gets repeated a lot but might be overstated.
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- “why did people think tomatoes were poisonous”
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- Pewter
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- “why did people think tomatoes were poisonous” (google.com)
- Tomato (en.wikipedia.org)
- Solanaceae (en.wikipedia.org)
- Pewter (en.wikipedia.org)
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