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wdym Italians ignored tomatoes for 300 years???

Greenhouse tomatoes are grown without soil?????

Bill, can I call you, Bill? Lots of speculation here about the origin of the name of the Brandywine tomato, but I am not seeing you make the obvious connection that someone is a fan of Middle Earth. The Brandywine Bridge, Bill! The Brandywine River! And the Brandybucks!

I don’t think I’ll finish this in time for pizza tomorrow.

The Florida tomato makes me sad.

The Puritans are invading my tomato book, like garden slugs.

Chef Boyardee's (nee Boiardi) first name was Ettore.

Hell yeah pasta is antifascist.

I am also reading the sixth Game Changers book rn, and Ilya just called Shane "moy pomidor"! His tomato!! lololol

Absolutely wild that pasta d'pomodoro (pasta with tomato sauce) wasn't popular until the 1800s. Before that gli italiani loved to sauce their pasta with pig lard. Why, my people. Why? Anyway, they stopped bc the pig lard stopped being good? Thus, tomatoes.

I love when non-fiction books have a voice and are funny. Also I am learning so much about tomatoes! Also also I am very hungry. I could absolutely murder a lasagna right now.

Well, fuck you Cento.

So people have been making up shit about health for a while now it seems

"...a New York slice is thick enough to hold its shape and thin enough to be eaten in the traditional New York manner: pinched in half, bringing the two base points of the triangle at the rim." 👏👏👏

Feeling validated 🤣