Italians: we are the masters of tomatoes
Swiss: we invented chocolate
My Aztec ass:
Potatoes, tomatoes, cocoa, coffee, pasta, peppers, tea, nearly every form of cooking spice; all this shit that Europeans and North Americans claim as culinary cultural heritage are actually ideas that were taken/repurposed from another country/culture/region.
But that’s okay, just dont be a racist bigot about it, is all.
Sugar!
Before Europeans discovered the sugarcane they only had the natural sweetness of things to make sweet food, the sweetest of which is sugar beet, whose sugar is lot harder to purify than that of sugar cane.
How sweet can cake be without some reasonably pure form of sugar you can add. Did the concept of cake even exist in Europe before that?
Edit: nevermind - I forgot the sweetness of fruit (oops).
Honey?
Yeah, I really missed pretty much the entire domain of sweet things.
So Europeans ate nothing got it.
Garlic, pickles, and liquor are old world
Peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes have basically spread everywhere at this point. Most Asian and African cultures have readily incorporated those into their own food traditions to where it’s hard to imagine how those cuisines were like before crop exchange with the New World.
Europeans aren’t native to Europe either.
You could argue that there are no native people or orginal cultures besides the once in east Africa. Everything else evolved form there.
m’corn
In Illinois, it’s pronounced “mm,corn” and used in a gruff but familiar manner in lieu of say, discussing the weather rhetorically. Instead of, out of the blue, “mm,brisk”, or “mm,hmm”, “mm,rainsdue”; this would suffice to imply “I’m new in town and have learned your ways, but let’s not get too friendly”. 🤌🏼
Allegedlythere was a great skit from a Korean pizza company trying to say how Koreans invented pizza and marco polo was just a jagoff
Sauce
Where did he get them???
Judging from how he orally abuses them I‘d say Epstein‘s island
From Spanish traders
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Tomatoes are god’s perfect food, and I’ll die on that hill. They add both sugar and acid, what else ya want?
Note: This only applies to good tomatoes. Don’t know about elsewhere, but in America we GMOed ours to be nice and round, evenly colored, no blemishes. Improving those traits removed the acid and sugar. That’s why many only know of tomatoes as pink mush.
They add both sugar and acid, what else ya want?
MSG? Oh wait…
Italian is my least-removed European ancestry. Aside from the flavor being complete ass to me, tomatoes are also dog shit for my heartburn.
You got the tomatoes with acid in them! :)
My best friend had the same issue. He got some sort of shot that resolved it temporarily. I think he can eat them with impunity now?
