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Europeans feared tomatoes for centuries, believing they were poisonous. |
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| That change of heart was thanks in part to the increasing popularity of pizza, of which Italy's Queen Margherita (sound familiar?) was known to partake. It's believed by some that Raffaele Esposito, a baker from Naples often credited with inventing the modern pizza, used the Italian flag's three colors as inspiration: red tomatoes, white mozzarella, and green basil. If anything explains an entire continent overcoming its irrational fear of tomatoes, it makes sense that it would be pizza. | |
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Tomatoes have been grown in space. | |||||||||
| A little more than 600 people have been to space. So have tomatoes. Seeds for Red Robin dwarf tomatoes were delivered to members of the International Space Station in November 2022 as part of NASA's Pick-and-Eat Salad-Crop Productivity, Nutritional Value, and Acceptability to Supplement the ISS Food System (try saying that five times fast) initiative, essentially a program meant to give astronauts more food options while in orbit. The seeds, which were delivered in specialized grow bags called "plant pillows," require a controlled-release fertilizer to grow in zero gravity and take longer to sprout than they would on Earth. Good things are worth waiting for, especially in orbit. | |||||||||
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