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What the fuck did people eat before tomatoes and potatoes? So many dishes, cuisines, even institutions are based on cooking inspired by tomatoes and/or potatoes.
What the fuck would Italian or French cooking, what many faggots would consider the pinnacle of artistry in cuisine, be without tomatoes? Yet they have only been around a few centuries. That's like a few generations. It's like saying "yes we use tomatoes because the dad of your dad's dad used them so we use them."
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>>8242934
For potatoes, chestnuts, chickpeas, peas, wheat, oats, turnips.
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Bread
Vegetables
Other roots
Nuts, berries
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tomatoes, sure. potatoes? nothing uses potatoes
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>>8242934
The Romans lived on beans, grains and fish. Also grapes.
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Asian food in general doesn't depend on tomatoes or potatoes
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>>8242934
Substitute potatoes for any other root vegetable native to the area. All cultures basically had their own potato. Yam, wapato, radish, turnip, carrots, tons of starchy replacements that hold well thru winter.
Tomatoes though? Mostly used for acidity. Vinegar replaces this in other cuisines, or lemon juice.
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>>8242985
Are you trying to be an autist or are you actually on the spectrum?
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>>8242934
Romans ate a lot of bread for their grains because no pasta/potatoes
Apples were commonly used in a lot of dishes, very similar to how tomatoes came to be used because apples can be made into a sauce by cooking them down.
They also had seasonings that were very similar to the fermented fish sauces of SE Asia.
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