T-Rex: So Columbus discovers America, right? Or at least, he REdiscovers the continent. He discovers it for Europe. Maybe not for the first time.
T-Rex: Columbus popularizes the continent!
T-Rex: And afterwards, what happens is what cooks call the "Columbian explosion", where fruits and vegetables brought back from the New World have a profound effect on the cooking in the old one! Tomatoes and potatoes are but two of the best-rhyming examples. When people back home discovered these vegetables, they started experimenting with them and coming up with all sorts of crazy, YET DELICIOUS, dishes! The Columbian explosion was an explosion of TASTE.
Utahraptor: And now, Italian food is basically defined by the tomato!
T-Rex: Exactly!
T-Rex: And we don't think "Irish cooking" without "potato", and South Korean food is big on Western peppers too! It must have been an exciting time, trying these new meals that nobody on the continent had ever tasted.
Utahraptor: And they were SO GOOD, they supplemented or replaced existing cultural dishes!
T-Rex: It makes me wish we could have something like that, you know? I'm TIRED of the same old vegetables.
God: I COULD CREATE SOME NEW ONES
T-Rex: And I'm TIRED of God offering to create new vegetables for me.
God: TO THAT I CAN ONLY SAY
God: BOLLOCKS
