People Were Terrified of Tomatoes for 200 Years (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)

<p><strong>People Were Terrified of Tomatoes for 200 Years (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For 200 years, Europeans and early Americans were convinced tomatoes were deadly. They called them &quot;poison apples&quot; and wouldn&#39;t touch them. Turns out the tomato was innocent the entire time — and the real culprit is a lot more embarrassing.</p><p>In this episode of Are You Shitting Me?, host Brett breaks down the bizarre true history behind the tomato poisoning myth - and nobody ever stopped to ask why. Along the way, Italy built an entire cuisine around tomato sauce and pizza while everyone else treated the same fruit like a biological weapon.</p><p><br></p><p>It&#39;s a story about food history, class bias, and poisoning all colliding to frame one very innocent fruit for two centuries.</p><p><br></p><p>Grab a beer and find out: are you shitting me?</p><p>🍅 In this episode:</p><p><br></p><p>Why tomatoes were called &quot;poison apples&quot; in Europe and early America</p><p>The real reason wealthy tomato-eaters got sick (it wasn&#39;t the tomato)</p><p>and why poor communities ate tomatoes safely the whole time</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>New episodes of Are You Shitting Me? drop regularly — weird history, strange science, and &quot;wait, that&#39;s actually true?&quot; facts, one beer at a time.</p><p>🔗 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SrYmUdiCM5PWOCNonDqIW</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>#AreYouShittingMe #TomatoHistory #FoodHistory #DidYouKnow #HistoryPodcast #WeirdHistory #FoodFacts #LeadPoisoning #TrueFacts #HiddenHistory #aysmpodcast</p>