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Fun fact potato berries are poisonous . They look just like black nightshade weeds which grows everywhere
People always look at you weird when you call Salsa a "concoction of nightshade fruits".
Tbf, most of these would kind of suck in a salsa.
I can see a deadly link for nightshade for a few of them (like when potatoes turn green) but I've never heard of poisonous tomato facts... Are there any?
Europeans used to think tomatoes were poisonous. They referred to them as poison apples.
The poison apple thing is based on works of Galen, who, seeing how he lived in Europe in the 3rd century, has never seen a tomato, nor spoken to anyone who has. But he did describe a poisonous "wolf peach" that happened to match a tomato, so obviously that must be it.
That's because they used pewter containers which were pretty common back in the day. The acidity from tomatoes would leech the lead out of the pewter and into the tomato so anyone eating this lead infused tomato product was gonna be in for a bad time.
I remember hearing that but I'd forgotten the specifics! Thanks!
Tobacco would make a great name for a cat
And how majestic that cat looks!
Def the photogenic one in the family.
wait, the cat is related?
Its a family photo, they don't need to be blood relatives.
so tobacco is not related?
Yeah that one messes me up as well. Who of these birthed the cat? Who of these did the cat birth?
You never heard about mom having kittens?
Potatoes? One of the "family" just decided to be a tuber?
Get this, they're so closely related that botanists created a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below.
Wild. TIL. Thanks.
Just be glad they didn't turn into crabs or cats.
Here I was thinking tomatillos were separate