POLL: New World crops/plants

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dried beans

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> persimmon

huh... i have eaten many types (at least 5 I can name off-hand) of this fruit and had no idea there was a new world persimmon. i will take a look on my next trip to the fruit market, though maybe I should wait til the autumn.

Only one of these, Capsicum, has changed culture at every longitude.

Second pick would be potatoes. Nearly complete nutritionally, prevented famine (except where English were in charge), highest satiety index, pretty good brined, baked at 450 for 45, brushed with oil, and baked another 10-15.

potato and sweet potato being lumped together is infuriating

write-in for tomacco

good poll

Remember that both corn (not indian corn*) and sunflowers can be turned into mazes.

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tomato is the hardest one to imagine the absence of

I feel like now I finally understand the agony of people who agonize over Greatest Album polls.

irish and voted accordingly

sanpaku with the type of casual aside that is hard to categorize as offensive or not tbh

Potatoes are good

FUCK YOUR POTATO

I can't remember what I voted for

idk i just love cashews

peanuts

Keep misreading this title as New World craps/pants

Tomatoes.

Many pastas sauces, many pizzas, caprese, BLTs.

I’ve got bowls of sungolds on my counter right now that are like eating candy.

Man, it’s fucking chocolate

Wanted to vote agave. But so much competition. Went with avocado

I did not realize about the cashew. Or that poison ivy (its close relation) is also mostly 'enjoyed' within the confines of NA.

FUCK YOUR POTATO

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boring but correct - tomatoes

Chile peppers

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Man, it’s fucking chocolate

otm. didn't even bother reading the other options past it.

Europe without tomatoes - shithole country.

Didn’t vote for it, but wanted to throw Paw-Paw into the “other” for consideration

I don't expect anything like a runaway consensus winner here. I thought when I made the poll that it would draw votes in every direction. Deservedly. What fascinated me was the wide variety of excellent crops on the list and how enthusiastically they have been embraced by the whole world. It's one of the few tangible good things to have shaken out of colonialism.

Europe without tomatoes - shithole country.

lol rutabegas or whatevs

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I knew there was going to be one jackass voting for peyote.

wow 50 chocolate haters

For some people (not me) peyote is a sacred plant.

thank u blessed vanilla voter

persimmon voter has a bezoar

I'd bump chocolate and peanuts up but otherwise this is the correct result.

Indeed. Now if only we could reintroduce the flavour of old into modern-day cultivars.

I am a chocolate hater. I think I voted for capsicum.

voted avocado glad to see it perform reasonable well

papaya rightfully gets zero votes

still annoyed at the potato/sweet potato combo and refused to vote

Resent being called a jackass

Green papaya salads are fucking amazing.

i know there is at least one ilxor that is registered with a tribe, so I allow it for them.

the fartichoke rightfully got 0.

papaya is fine if not underripe/overripe - real disappointing fruit champion is the dragon fruit.

Fartichokes are delicious. And there are ways around the flatulence if you're so inclined.

Fartichokes are delicious but not worth it for the seismic activity after.

ah I just realized it says sunflower up there too.

Now I get where sunchoke comes from.

From Wikipedia:

Italian settlers in the United States called the plant girasole, the Italian word for sunflower, because of its familial relationship to the garden sunflower (both plants are members of the genus Helianthus). Over time, the name girasole (pronounced closer to [dʒiraˈsuːlə] in southern Italian dialects) may have been changed to Jerusalem.

I know I'm going to sound dumb but why isnt rice in this list?

There's a variety generally called 'wild rice' that's found in the New World, but it is also found in Asia, and all the more common varieties of rice are Asian.

From Wikipedia article "Rice":

The current scientific consensus, based on archaeological and linguistic evidence, is that rice was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China.[

From Wikipedia article "Wild Rice":

Wild rice (Ojibwe: manoomin; also called Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats) are four species of grasses forming the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them. The grain was historically gathered and eaten in North America, India and China.