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6. So much for the Columbian Exchange

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Wed May 13, 2026, 05:22 PM

May 13

No tomatoes, peppers, most beans (anything in the genus Phasolus), squashes, chocolate, peanuts, vanilla, pineapples, potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, quinoa, and a host of others I'm forgetting. No tea or coffee, either. To be fair, it is possible to eat healthy and tasty dishes based on just what was available in that part of the Middle East in biblical times, but the only foods I remember from the bible are loaves and fishes. And wine.

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Eating Healthy? No, They're Eating Biblically. [View all] dalton99a May 13 OP

locust with honey drippings rampartd May 13 #1

+1 dalton99a May 13 #2

I've had chapulinas Retrograde May 13 #7

Let me know what she starts keeping kosher The Blue Flower May 13 #3

It's amazing what they can achieve... WestMichRad May 13 #4

So, are her surgically enhanced breasts tonkatoy8888 May 13 #5

They do not look enhanced to me. Celerity May 13 #9

So much for the Columbian Exchange Retrograde May 13 #6

one suspects mostly bad wine nt msongs May 13 #10

She avoids the tree of knowledge, I see. Solly Mack May 13 #8