SC - Poisonous Tomatoes?

Wed Nov 29 18:12:10 PST 2000

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In a message dated 11/28/00 9:20:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, ddfr at best.com 
writes:

> 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.
> 
> 

And as early as the beginning of the 20th century CE, some physicians thought 
that it was a cause of cancer. From extant cookery manuals it does not appear 
that tomatoes were eaten with any regularity by those who wrote cookery 
manuals until W.W.II.

Ras
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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<HTML>In a message dated 11/28/00 9:20:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, ddfr at best.com writes:
 
 
 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">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.
 
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 And as early as the beginning of the 20th century CE, some physicians thought that it was a cause of cancer. From extant cookery manuals it does not appear that tomatoes were eaten with any regularity by those who wrote cookery manuals until W.W.II.
 
 Ras
 The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.- Solomon Ibn Gabirol</HTML>

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