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Tomatoes have been grown in Italy since at least 1550, plenty of time to be firmly accepted in the food culture. Edit: Come to think about it, tomatoes in Ital
by progre 5y ago
Tomatoes have been grown in Italy since at least 1550, plenty of time to be firmly accepted in the food culture.
Edit: Come to think about it, tomatoes in Italy have existed longer than Italy itself.
- dspillett 5y agoThey'll be claiming fish & chips isn't an English dish next!
- rat87 5y agoFried fish was originally Spanish/Portuguese possibly brought by Jewish immigrants to the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescado_frito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescado_frito
- dspillett 5y agoAye, very few things we think as traditionally of one place actually originated there. Turns out I'd have liked the past Spanish fort as much as the more modern one works for me! (Specifically in the post above I was referring to the chip, on the basis that the potatoe "came" to England in a similar timeframe to the quote of the tomato beginning commonplace in Italy from.)
- niij 5y agoOr Curry!
- kazen44 5y agoby about 400 years at that!. (if we take into concept the first foundation of the italian state, and not its predecessors. A common heritage of the italian peninsula is ofcourse far, far older).