• red@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    There’s no proof that cheese, or even milking, was a thing in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans iirc

    I think tomatoes made it to Europe before cheese made it to the Americas, but not sure

    • Raltoid@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      There are some hints towards the Inca eating llama cheese, but nothing confirmed as far as I know.

      And there is nothing to show regular consumption of animal milk or related products in north america before the europeans arrived.

    • Z4rK@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Milking animals is such a generic concept you get from nature, hard to imagine they didn’t pick it up too.

      • shanghaibebop@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        99% of indigenous people were lactose intolerant. They would’ve stopped drinking milk very quickly as you can get the upset stomach drinking milk.