That is because they ate out of pewter, a lead alloy, and the acidity of tomatoes leeched lead out into the food.
This often lead to lead comas, and people were thought to be dead and then buried. They for some reason dug some up and found claw marks on the inside of their coffins, and started to attach a string connected to a bell on the surface.
This is also the origin of “saved by the bell”, if I’m not mistaken.
I’m too lazy to make the meme, myself, so imagine an image of Zack Morris looking confused, and the text, “I thought it came from boxing?”
Led = past tense of lead
Is it? I am dumb forgot that one, too much leaded something perhaps. There is an epidemic of lead deficiency, but no one led us to any curative solutions sadly.
Well, the plants are.
The lengths someone has needed to go to find out whether something is edible, not poisonous, etc…
“Damn, Mike boiled these mushrooms once and died. What if I boil them once more? Hmm, tastes okay. And I didn’t even die!”
You mean starvation. Historically starvation is how they learned what will and wont kill.
Apparently, there is one type of highly poisonous mushroom that is fucking delicious. Then you die horribly.
It is toxic if you cooked in a copper pot because of its acidity, which a lot of people had.
Copper might do it too, I read about pewter, which is a lead alloy. Copper poisoning is serious business too. Telltale signs are green rings around the eyes. It fucks with your reproductive organs amongst other things, in a non fucking sort of way if I recall.
They are in the nightshade family, so makes sense with no other context
The tomato weren’t poisinous, but the lead plate they used to serve them were. This is also the reason for the tomato scene in lotr. They are implying denethor is crazy.
Huh. Did not know that.
