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CleanSump said:
Does anyone who eats hot pepper based foods wonder how the hot peppers made their way from Mexico/Desert SW to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia?

Sssshhhh - Ancient Aliens.
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The Portuguese brought hot peppers to the west coast of India in the early 1500's and in less than 80 years they had spread all throughout southern Asia to the Pacific.

The story of the spread of new world crops is pretty amazing. Sunflower, cocoa, corn, potatoes, cashews, tomatoes, cranberries, chestnuts, black walnuts, avacado, a multitude of bean varieties plus a bunch more were all unknown in the eastern hemisphere in pre-Columbian times.
 
ripcord said:
The Portuguese brought hot peppers to the west coast of India in the early 1500's and in less than 80 years they had spread all throughout southern Asia to the Pacific.

The story of the spread of new world crops is pretty amazing. Sunflower, cocoa, corn, potatoes, cashews, tomatoes, cranberries, chestnuts, black walnuts, avacado, a multitude of bean varieties plus a bunch more were all unknown in the eastern hemisphere in pre-Columbian times.
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PimTac said:
Actually they came in the opposite direction, plus birds.
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Uh no. Peppers are indigenous to North America. Hot varieties from the desert Southwest/Northern Mexico.
Birds don't migrate East to West nor West to East. Nor can they hold their poop for 3,000 miles.
 
CleanSump said:
Uh no. Peppers are indigenous to North America. Hot varieties from the desert Southwest/Northern Mexico.
Birds don't migrate East to West nor West to East. Nor can they hold their poop for 3,000 miles.
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The Portuguese weren't bringing those hot peppers from Portugal. They were bringing them from the New World - the Western hemisphere. The Portuguese were the ones who were getting around the most at that point in time.
 
ripcord said:
The Portuguese weren't bringing those hot peppers from Portugal. They were bringing them from the New World - the Western hemisphere. The Portuguese were the ones who were getting around the most at that point in time.
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Ooops, Apologies extended. I was quoting you as correct. I can't go back and fix it now.
The "nope" was aimed at the silly idea of birds carrying seeds across the Atlantic or Pacific oceans or peppers coming from Old World to the Americas.
The question of how'd they get to the Old World before Columbus is obvious. The Portuguese had already been fishing off the Americas for a long time before Christopher made his trip. Columbus was searching for a different route than the Portuguese were already using around Africa.
Francis Drake even documented he chased a Chinese Junk for several days off the coast of current Oregon, but never caught up to it. We are so so Eurocentric. Ha, I'm of Irish and Scot decent. Don't have a dog in the who was first fight.
 
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I'm very full now. Celery. Avocado. My nut seed mix (ground mixed nuts, hemp seed, pumpkin and sunflower seeds). Hard white aged cheddar. TBSP hemp seed oil.
 
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