@Wreybies was talking about the first potato eater. Potatoes and tomatoes are indigenous to central and South America. They did not arrive in Southern Europe until the spaniards brought them back in the 1500's
I think it's because practically everybody has had chicken, so people can relate to that. We don't talk about that....
How can you draw a perfect circle using pi and the diameter when pi is an infinite decimal? It is a ratio that only works in one direction!
Correct. They both belong to the same family of plants that includes the nightshade, but contrary to urban myth, are not themselves actual nightshades thus there is no mythical poisonous progenitor. In Central and South America potatoes come in a hugely wide variety, most of which are unknown to European and American kitchens. The same holds true for tomatoes. There are many very edible relatives of the tomato that simply don't show up in Western culinary traditions.
The leaves of the potato are slightly toxic. Aubergine and tomatillos are in that family as well ETA Doh! @Lewdog beat me to it
It's even worse than that. What in the world ever possessed that person to dig up a plant whose leaves and shoots are poisonous to dig up and eat that lump of a root?
How many people had to die to figure out there is a very small part of a blow fish that is extremely tasty and not poisonous?
If superman is faster than a speeding bullet, why can't he just do things fast? Is he just showing off?
Well if he did everything fast, then doing something faster than a speeding bullet wouldn't be so impressive anymore, now would it?
He does many things fast. Ever watch the last few seasons of Smallville? He used his speed to help people without being seen, and was therefore known as the Blur. But the costume became a symbol of hope for the people. Also, fast isn't always best. Ask any woman.
So, if there were a superhero who only saves women, would he be called The Snail? "The Snail - the slowest man alive!"
The Turtle was an early nemesis of the Flash. He often stymied the Flash by moving slowly. But he was no "babe magnet."
Do you have any idea how many girlfriends Superman killed before learning he needed to 'pull out' at the end?
Why are frozen pizzas so disappointing when compared with pizza from, say, dominoes or pizza hut even? And why are they always thin crusted?
They aren't always thin crusted. I'm sure you can get deep-dish frozen pizza from somewhere. And the reason frozen pizzas are disappointing is that they're frozen. You have to heat them up before you eat them. Read the instructions on the box.
Frozen dough, even when thawed, cannot react like fresh dough. And good pizza dough is particularly light and elastic, properties that don't survive well through freezing and thawing. I make a lot of breads, including pizzas.
