Tomatoes were first grown in Central1 and South America. They were unknown2 to the rest of the world until3 the 16th century4.
In the beginning5, many people in Europe6 refused to eat tomatoes because they thought7 the fruit was8 dangerous.
Tomatoes first became9 common10 in the US in the 1820s, In one story, a man named Robert Johnson ate11 some tomatoes in public12. Everyone in the town crowded13 around him to watch him die14. When he did15 not die, they realized16 that tomatoes were safe to eat and no longer avoided17 them.
Do you know any other interesting stories about food?
