Italians: we are the masters of tomatoes
Swiss: we invented chocolate
My Aztec ass:
m’corn
In Illinois, it’s pronounced “mm,corn” and used in a gruff but familiar manner in lieu of say, discussing the weather rhetorically. Instead of, out of the blue, “mm,brisk”, or “mm,hmm”, “mm,rainsdue”; this would suffice to imply “I’m new in town and have learned your ways, but let’s not get too friendly”. 🤌🏼
Allegedlythere was a great skit from a Korean pizza company trying to say how Koreans invented pizza and marco polo was just a jagoff
Sauce
Tomatoes are god’s perfect food, and I’ll die on that hill. They add both sugar and acid, what else ya want?
Note: This only applies to good tomatoes. Don’t know about elsewhere, but in America we GMOed ours to be nice and round, evenly colored, no blemishes. Improving those traits removed the acid and sugar. That’s why many only know of tomatoes as pink mush.
They add both sugar and acid, what else ya want?
MSG? Oh wait…
In Spain you can still easily find many different varieties, like bull’s testicles tomatoes:
No idea why it’s called like that but it’s really tasty.
In german these are called „Ochsenherztomaten“ (Oxheart tomatoes) or „Fleischtomaten“ (Beef tomatoes).
And yes they are very tasty!
Italian is my least-removed European ancestry. Aside from the flavor being complete ass to me, tomatoes are also dog shit for my heartburn.
You got the tomatoes with acid in them! :)
My best friend had the same issue. He got some sort of shot that resolved it temporarily. I think he can eat them with impunity now?
Yep, gave Italians tomatoes and kept potatoes to themselves. So clever!
I mean, yeah. Would be pretty stupid to give them ALL of the potatoes so they’d be unable to make gazpacho or carne con tomate…
