• Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone
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    10 months ago

    Traditional schmaditional. They never had tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, corn or a bunch of other things until Meso-America was ransacked.

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      10 months ago

      Discovering that tomatoes were new world fruit really torpedoed any chance of me respecting Italian traditions

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        6 days ago

        I also discovered a while ago the amazing arrival of pinneaples to Europe, back then they were so rare and expensive that there were companies providing rental services for pinneaples. Rich people would host a pinneaples party, to basically show it, and then to be returned to the company that rented it. Crazy pinneaple times indeed!

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        10 months ago

        Well… a tradition’s gotta start sometime.

        Look at that fucking Elf on the Fucking Shelf shit. It’s marketing tag on the box is (or was) “a tradition”.

        Yeah. A tradition for ONE fucked up family who then cashed in HARD and forced their sick gaslighting on the gullible public. /rant