SC - Deep-fried Turkey? OOP

[Tara Sersen]

At 11:19 AM -0800 11/28/00, Chris Stanifer wrote:

>However, I am still interested in
>learning whether or not the fruit of the tomato plant
>was believed to be poisonous, and if so, for how long
>after its introduction to Europe?

It has been established that at some point in the twentieth century, 
it was believed that people several hundred years earlier didn't eat 
tomatoes because they thought they were poisonous.

There are also some bits of evidence that some people in the 
sixteenth and seventeenth century thought tomatoes were bad for you 
(Matteoli renaming it "malus insana" and Gerard's comments), but knew 
that people ate them and didn't drop dead as a result.
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