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.
Or tomato sauce being a product of the Americas 🫠
Tomato sauce is clearly a native Italian product /s
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.
But they were all deceived. For another plant foodstuffs was made. One Allium to rule them all, One Allium to find them; One Allium to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
But…I don’t want to throw my Allium in a Volcano :(
…would you, if it was deliciously caramelised afterwards? 👉👈
cast it into your maw, destroy it!
Don’t forget our favorite New World plant:
Fuck yeah! Where was this a year ago?
Cold bean shots rule
Thanks, I hate it.
We don’t know where onions originated because their use predates written language.
Holy crap
I don’t know how I’d exist without allium and chili. I would simply pop out of existence like a flavorless virtual particle
Man, i fucking love alliums. ❤️ garlic ❤️ onions ❤️
One correction and fun fact: We absolutely had bamboo.
The bamboo you can see in Spain is the American one and now that I think about it, to call it bamboo it’s a relatively recent thing, thirty years ago it was most commonly known as american cane.
It’s almost exclusively called River Cane here. Probably why nobody thinks it’s bamboo.
I’d also argue us in the Old World didn’t suffer without cranberries - we always had the similarly delicious Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
I actually prefer it to cranberries
Who doesn’t like
parfaitonions? You ever hear someone say “hey you want someparfaitonions” and the other person respnds “hell no, I don’t want noparfaitonions?”I hate onions. All of a sudden My pasta started tasting like shit and I couldn’t figure it out. I was gagging. Turned out they changed the recipe of My store bought toscana. They added onions. Fuck onions.
I’m sorry for your taste. I also have specific food sensitivities and it sucks.
I wonder if I’ve got the same kind of thing. I love onions but absolutely hate leeks. They taste like the smell of stale urine.
I’ve never understood it - I know they don’t taste like this to other people. I like the other edible alliums, but leeks taste uniquely awful.
I keep trying them every few years hoping that my tastes have changed, but they haven’t until this point.
Americas have grains they just largely weren’t domesticated.
Some were, but generations of cultural genocide, land theft, and economic pressures meant that many domesticated crops and practices were lost. For example, it was illegal in many places for indigenous americans to eat any “indian” food or to grow, hunt, or collect any of their traditional foods. They were forced to work for low pay and spend money to buy western foods, or they were forced to stay on reservations and rely on federal food programs
Pity the poor souls who don’t like onions. No place is safe for them. The foods of all lands are just too delicious for them to handle.
Alliums are legion.
I also think about this. However this person was misinformed on grapes. Some grapes are native to North America.
As an Oklahoman, it is a shock for me to learn that okra is from the Old World
The old old world. East Africa. God I love okra.
None for the Austrians though.
Austria is in Europe
#wooooosh
Edit: It’s a meme about a french marching song
Ok can you please explain the joke then? That did indeed go right over my head
See my edit.
Europe decided. No onions for Austria.
