Off the top of my head:

India:
Sugar
Pepper
Basil
Mangoes
Bananas
Ginger
(Ceylon) Cinnamon

SEA:
(Cassia) Cinnamon
Mace
Nutmeg
Oranges
Lemons
Limes

Central Asia:
Apples
Carrots (Afghanistan, could be considered MENA or India but the MENA category is too OP)

East Asia:
Peaches
Soy Sauce
Ketchup
Soy sauce
Sesame oil

Africa:
Coffee
Coca-Cola
Palm oil

Americas:
Chocolate
Vanilla
Blueberries
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Corn
Pineapple
Strawberries

  • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
    ·
    4 months ago

    So what foods are indigenous to europe?

    Olives?

    What else? I think sheep maybe? Idk.

    • Egon [they/them]
      ·
      4 months ago

      https://www2.nau.edu/lrm22/lessons/plant_origins/plant_origins.html

      Herring, types of cod, types of deer I reckon, types of cheese, cabbage, some other root vegetables I think. Maybe pig is allowed since it's probably from the Eurasian steppe (according to the first article on Google I found)?
      It's not a lot since we've decided to go with the ethnonationalist definition of Europe as being "England, scandinavia, Germany, most of France, bits of Italy and the north of Spain" which doesn't really describe a large geographical area. It's also a definition thats mainly held by white supremacists.

        • Egon [they/them]
          ·
          4 months ago

          Yeah and there's loads of wheat that's from European breeds, but that doesn't count because 10.000 ago they weren't there. Your criteria only cares for where the original was (Pangaea)

          • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
            ·
            4 months ago

            fug, accidentally deleted my comment

            anyway no, the stuff in the OP is all from the last ~1000 years
            If you go back to 10,000 then yeah almost nothing at all is from Europe

            Also all the european breeds of wheat are named european names so that's a moot point

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
      ·
      4 months ago

      depends how far you want to go back. Olives have been indigenous to Europe since at least the neolithic, but before that they were indigenous to North Africa and the (green) Sahara. It was impossible for olives to grow even in Southern Europe during the ice age.

      European biodiversity, if you trace it back, is almost all from Africa or Southwest/Central Asia, for the simple fact that the subcontinent was mostly ice until only 12,000 years ago. European people also derive only 20% of their genes from ice age Europeans as well.

      However most of the stuff in my OP is about more recent arrivals from the last 2,000 years

      sheep are from the Middle East originally, but there are naturalized post-neolithic breeds from all over the world