• promitheas
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    139 months ago

    Please explain meme for us who aren’t this well versed in history

    • The Picard ManeuverM
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      509 months ago

      It’s a meta meme. There are a few popular memes out there showing the divide between “Potato Europe” and “Tomato Europe”

      But this one is showing neither because it predates their arrival in Europe, I guess.

      • LoboAureo
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        9 months ago

        América was discovered by Colon in 1492 and bring the first potato and tomato seeds to Europe

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          159 months ago

          I’m pretty sure he didn’t discover it, what with people having lived there for tens of thousands of years.

          • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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            109 months ago

            I never got this semitic discussion. I can discover a cabin in a forest or a store in a city but Columbus can’t discover a continent because he wasn’t the first one who discovered it?

            • @Catoblepas
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              89 months ago

              This would have more merit if he ever set foot in North America. He landed in the Bahamas. It’s technically part of the North American tectonic plate, but so is part of Iceland.

                  • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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                    9 months ago

                    And there is no causal relation between the discovery of these

                    Edit: Also: the meme is about potatoes and tomatoes which come from around central America. They aren’t USA exports. The meme is about the discovery of America as in the Americas

          • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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            109 months ago

            I discovered a new restaurant last week. It’s been around for decades but it was new to me. I can’t remember the first time I tasted a tomato or potato, but to the Europeans it must have been amazing! And don’t forget chocolate!

            You are correct about the thriving and ancient civilizations in the “New World” of course. Getting olives and oranges and figs, even horses, doesn’t feel like enough compensation for what happened to them…

          • LoboAureo
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            89 months ago

            The gravity was there from the beginning of time, but Newton discovered it.

            English is not my first language but as long as you specify for who, you can use discover, like "I discovered this movie last year, it’s my new favorite movie since then’ and the movie was published 40 years ago.

          • @Voyajer@lemmy.world
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            39 months ago

            They can be, they’re nightshades so they make little tomato-like berries which contain seeds. Usually people just replant potatoes instead because it’s easier and they grow faster.

          • LoboAureo
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            39 months ago

            Yes, you are right , he brings potatoes and tomatoes seeds, not potatoes seeds and tomatoes seeds