Hey guys, in the salsa episode you mentioned that when Europeans first encountered tomatoes they thought they were deadly because they're a member of the nightshade family.
For example, a plant named deadly nightshade, or belladonna, is so toxic that it was used as a murder weapon in Europe during the Middle Ages, a time more than 500 years ago.
The bigger problem was that people in Europe, and I swear we've talked about this before, people in Europe initially thought tomatoes were a deadly part of the nightshade family.
She pressed into the far corner of the back seat and sat hunched up with her chin in her hand, looking out at the hideous deadly nightshade of the neon.
And even at that time the English regarded them with suspicion and they were seldom eaten because many believed that they were poisonous and in fact they are botanically related to the deadly nightshade family of plants.
And so in the same way that some people tolerate, like some people can't tolerate nightshades, or some people can't tolerate certain spices, or some people can't tolerate gluten, or some people thrive off of this or that.