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From the 1500’s - 1800’s tomatoes were usually only consumed by the poor because they were considered poisonous to the rich. The high lead content of pewter silverware and plates would leech into high acidic foods when eaten causing poisoning and death.
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In the 1700’s, tomatoes were thought to be poisonous because people died after eating them. The real issue was people using pewter plates and the acidity of tomatoes leached lead out of them causing lead poisoning
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Europeans feared eating tomatoes for 200 years, because when wealthy Europeans using pewter plates, high in lead content, ate tomatoes off the plates, the high acidity in tomatoes would cause the fruit to leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning
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The oldest known photograph, taken in (circa) 1826 used a pewter plate covered in naturally occurring asphalt and an exposure time of eight hours.
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Thomas Topham, a performing strongman in 1741, lifted three containers of water weighing over 1300 pounds off a stage and also crumpled up thick pewter plates as if they were paper.
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Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous because nobility would eat them off of pewter plates; the high acid content of the tomatoes would draw out the lead from the pewter.
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Europeans feared the tomato because they thought it was poisonous. However, it was actually the pewter plates aristocrats were eating the fruit on that was poisoning them
