Are tomatoes really bad for you?

@saragoodtimes Good point.

@saragoodtimes at one time people thought that tomatoes were poison for everyone. I don’t know who the brave soul was that decided to try them & found out that they didn’t hurt him or her. Maybe someone who watched animals eating wild ones.

@cherokeepatti probably the same guy who discovered juice from a cows tit was good too.

@saragoodtimes well they’ve discovered tomato seeds in an Egyptian pyramid tomb & planted them, they sprouted & grew small tomatoes. So apparently back 2-3 thousand years ago the Egyptians knew what they were good for.

@cherokeepatti i saw somewhere years ago the Egyptians used tomatoes as a medicine.
But that would have to be a guess I think

@Virgo79 I just wonder what happened to make people believe that they were poisonous? I did read in a book something that happened quite a few decades ago about someone who had heard that you could graft a Jimson weed and a tomato using a clothespin after cutting them & fitting them together. A man in the family did that & the lady picked tomatoes for dinner, sliced them & had them on the table. Most of the family got so sick they had to be hospitalized & I believe two didn’t get sick at all. So the doctor had to do an investigation to find out what happened. He questioned everyone what they had for dinner & all but two said tomatoes so he started asking about the tomatoes & found out that one planted had been grafted onto a Jimson weed & he checked it out & found out they had toxins in them.

@cherokeepatti the oldtimers knew what they were doing. I remember picking wild mushrooms with my Grandpa. he would soak them in a pot with a silver quarter. I don't remember whether they were good if the quarter tarnished or not.

@saragoodtimes I have never heard that as a test. I know they used to wash up a silver dollar really good & put it in the bottom of jar & pour milk over it to keep it fresh longer before they had refrigeration. Might not work in hot weather but milder weather it must have helped.

@cherokeepatti today you can't find a silver coin if your life depended on it

[image deleted][image deleted]@saragoodtimes if it tarnished
they are bad,
supposedly
These are the good ones😋

@Virgo79 so many different varieties in the market today don't need to pick wild ones. we have mushroom farms all over here. they pack for all over the country

@Virgo79 I love those mushrooms. In the county where I was born in Northwestern Missouri there were some years you could find them by the bushel basket. So many that friends would get together and have “mushroom fries” in the springtime. Has to be after the ground warms up in the spring, you get a nice rain, and then the sun comes out & shines for awhile. My uncle said you could go to the places where they were common & see them popping up out of the ground. They like to grow under elm trees and oak trees.

@cherokeepatti i do well under dead elm and ash, apple and yes they're awesome!