It all started when the Chinese mixed some herbs together and created a very nice tasting concoction of pickled fish and spices. By early 1700s, the table sauce, which was immensely popular in China gained fame elsewhere like in Malaysia. That is where it was discovered by the western civilization, England. The English fell in love with this sauce, in 1740s. It spread from there on like the Spanish flu but it wasn’t lethal like that disease. One of the places it spread to was, at the time one of the British Colonies. The 12 colonies, the United States, the inhabitants there mixed it with some tomatoes and till this day they have been like that ever since.
Others never thought of it because for most of the 18th century and before, Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous like their relatives Belladona and nightshade plants. But when the sauce made it to the colonies new discoveries favored the Tomatoes true nature, a safe healthy fruit.
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The word sweetness, sweetness in candies and sugar, was called saccharon in Greek and Sacchrine in Roman. After conquering the surrounding lands, which was subsequently most of the southern Mediterranean, the Arabs conquered it in 1000 AD. They built the first sugar refinery ever on the island of Crete which is close to Greek. The factory, if you could call it that, was named Quandi, which doesn’t resemble the English word candy for nothing. The word caramel came from Arabic languages too. It was named kurat al milh meaning a sweet ball of salt.
Today they have became a staple in the American society, they are virtual consumed every minute, every day by someone, somewhere.
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Why do strawberries have the word straw in it? Well let’s look at some of the other nations and how they called it. The Germans call them erdbeeren(“earth berries”) because they grow on the ground. The Romans had the name fragaria which you probably noticed looks a lot like fragrance. Yes the Romans named it by it’s sweet smell. The English, by design couldn’t grow the berries because of the climate. Ireland and the main island of England both had damp weathers not suitable for growing berries. So the Brits came up with the brilliant idea of putting straws around the muddy soil to protect them from growing.
Strawberries are one of the world’s populations favorite fruits, thanks to it’s nice little shape, ability to eat with virtually anything in a cereal, with some sauce etc..
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