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I also think about this. However this person was misinformed on grapes. Some grapes are native to North America.
Really loving these 0.2 font size images without accompanying OCR.
I had an Indian guy tell me Indians have been eating chilies for thousands of years and that’s why they can tolerate spicy food more than Americans. I told him chilies come from the Americas, aren’t native to India, and only arrived after the Columbian exchange. The guy nearly wanted to fight me over it, insisting that chilies are native to India.
He’s an idiot. We were using peppers before we got our hands on chillies.
Tell him Peru and Thailand have more varieties of chillies to burst his nerve.
If by peppers you mean black pepper, sure. But sweet bell peppers are the same species as jalapeños: Capsicum annuum.
Green, black, and white pepper (three life stages of peppercorn) along with long pepper, horseradish, and ginger.
All cuisine from all countries restarted 500 years ago. Korea didn’t have chili peppers, Russia didn’t have tea or potatoes, no one had coffee, it’s amazing how much of our cultural identity is firmed up after a few generations.
We don’t know where onions originated because their use predates written language.
As an Oklahoman, it is a shock for me to learn that okra is from the Old World
Don’t forget our favorite New World plant:
If only onions and the like didn’t give me such gutwrenching cramps, love the taste, but partaking in anything containing onions, leek or too much garlic just isn’t worth the aftermath. ☹️
Alliums are legion.
