RFF#57 – When tomatoes were first introduced in Italy, they called them “pomi d’oro”

Translation: golden apples

I’m guessing the tomatoes they first received from the new world weren’t red.

I learned about this fact from: http://historymyths.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/myth-64-early-americans-thought-tomatoes-were-poisonous/

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