4 ms·
All spices basically too afaik.
by boxed 10mo ago
All spices basically too afaik.
- h33t-l4x0r 10mo agoChilis, tobacco and tomatoes are all in the same family (nightshades). And they are all "New World" plants. Which means Europe had to live without them until 1600 or so. If you can call that living.
- swiftcoder 10mo agoDon't forget the potato! Europe before the potato seems like a miserable place
- smegger001 10mo agoyeah before potato they had lots of lots of turnips and rutabagas, it is little wonder they went out exploring the world looking for anything better to eat. the new world gave tonnes of food not just nightshade family plant mentioned earlier (gp left out eggplant btw) corn, sweet potato, chocolate, sunflowers, and pumpkins, squash, peanuts, pineapple, cranberry and turkey.
- swiftcoder 10mo agoEggplant is actually an old-world nightshade! Arabs brought it to Spain as early as the 8th century, probably from Southeast Asia
- creshal 10mo agoAnd coffee didn't make the jump until around the same time, either. No wonder Europeans wanted to be anywhere on the planet except Europe.
- peebee67 10mo agoI've often had the mental image of Galileo trying to order a pizza and being very disappointed at the garlic bread that turned up.
- mc32 10mo agoImagine Indian food without chilies… it’d be as dull as Russian food.