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Most old food is going to be inaccurate. Everything has been selectively bred since then, and it's easy to forget how many plants were only found in the America
by hot_gril 4y ago
Most old food is going to be inaccurate. Everything has been selectively bred since then, and it's easy to forget how many plants were only found in the Americas.
- darknavi 4y agoGoogle says potatoes are from South America and only came to Europe in the 1500s. TIL!
- Scarblac 4y agoAnd tomatoes!
- account42 4y agoWhich are both nightshades, even of the same genus along with eggplants.
- _re0r 4y agoAnd ... conversely the pigs that we know came to North America from Europe around that same time. The early settlers brought them over and released them thinking the pigs would just do the 'pannage' thing in the vast unmapped, unbordered and unfenced forests of America and they'd collect them come winter time at will. Instead, they ran off and procreated and went feral, and rest is history.
- tuatoru 4y agoYeah, breed improvement was a major landowner hobby in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[1] Britain's King George III was nicknamed "Farmer George" because he understood the importance of food for national security. There's also a story about a German prince trying to get his subjects to grow potatoes, and when they wouldn't, he made potatoes a royal vegetable, only to be grown in one royal garden. The garden was carefully arranged to be laxly guarded. Sure enough, potatoes took off. Most of our modern farm animals (and crops) look a lot different to their medieval forebears. 1.https://georgianpapers.com/2017/01/19/farmer-georges-notes-agriculture/ https://georgianpapers.com/2017/01/19/farmer-georges-notes-a...