"Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free"

[gergovie@piaille.fr]

@infobeautiful

Tobacco and syphilis

[mjd@mathstodon.xyz]

@infobeautiful @pozorvlak The Roman Empire was also, apparently, eggplant-free, which I find bizarre because they are native to Asia.

[koushiniku@hachyderm.io]

@infobeautiful Literally sowing wild oats!

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@Gergovie @infobeautiful that critically acclaimed first Oasis album

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@infobeautiful Not only tomato, which now is typically everywhere, also potatoes and corn, widely used now. The interesting fact is about how all of them have become the main ingredients of many (now) typical recipes.
It should teach how something new, unusual, in a couple of centuries may become a key tradition.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful mad to think there was a time in Europe before potatoes, whole civilisations rose and fell in fact...yet no potato

[ericbono@social.vivaldi.net]

@infobeautiful

My conquistador went to the New World and all I got was this lousy syphilis.

[ericbono@social.vivaldi.net]

@infobeautiful

Thanks for the thistles, gramps!

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@infobeautiful

Now do Asia.

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@infobeautiful I wonder if they roasted sunflower seeds and/or crushed them into a spread (like peanut butter)?

[leffe@social.linux.pizza]

@infobeautiful

#InOurTime #TheColumbianExchange

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Columbian Exchange

The impact of the spread of animals, crops and diseases between continents after 1492.

BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)

[marioostolaza@mstdn.social]

@EricBono @infobeautiful ...but now he has bigger bananas -now, I understand the brand #Chiquita- they were the first ones from the East-