spavaloo wrote:Xcom wrote:spavaloo wrote:
It's difficult to tell if you're joking or not.
No joke, was genuine.
The tomato didn't arrive in Europe until Columbus went over to the Americas and brought back local crops with him. The Vikings who went before didn't go far south enough to find or trade for tomatoes.
And we wouldn't want any of those wildly out of place tomato plants spoiling the aesthetic of our pumpkin & tobacco farms
