> Some researchers credit Cortez with bringing the seeds to Europe in 1519 for ornamental purposes. I really doubt they (particularly the Spaniards) weren't ea

> Some researchers credit Cortez with bringing the seeds to Europe in 1519 for ornamental purposes. I really doubt they (particularly the Spaniards) weren't eating tomatoes from the start. The confusion emerged later, the premise of all Europeans thinking that tomatoes were poisonous is wrong; some of them did but others did not. Related popular food myth: Lobsters being gross. Lobsters were known to be delicious by Mediterranean people since Roman times. The premise of lobsters being disgusting poor people food developed much later, in America, when immigrants from inland regions of Europe encountered lobsters for the first time, had no cultural background with them, and prepared them poorly.