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_kroy t1_iuef7in wrote

Reply to comment by flourishingvoid in The Discovery that Lemons Cure Scurvy Caused the Formation of the Sicilian Mafia by agreea

I mean, just in that old habits die hard and tomatoes, which are difficult to store, transport, doesn’t keep fresh long, vitamin C gets destroyed easily, means specifically they probably weren’t looking towards this as a scurvy cure

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flourishingvoid t1_iueg7g5 wrote

Yeah, but it was a side example, some other fruits and vegetables could have been used... Bell pepper and cabbage are good examples

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_kroy t1_iuegm07 wrote

Sure. And that was the point, which you somehow took extremely defensively.

In a conversation about scurvy and vitamin C, tomatoes are a less-than-ideal example, especially when you point out that the vitamin c is destroyed

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flourishingvoid t1_iuegumm wrote

Yeah, but that was the whole point... I compared the worst to the best stressing why Tomatoes weren't used with complimentary justifications about cooking.

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