Robert Gibbon Johnson

Robert Gibbon Johnson

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Robert Gibbon Johnson was an American colonel known for his bold public demonstration in 1820, where he famously ate a tomato in front of a large crowd in Salem, New Jersey, helping to dispel the myth that tomatoes were poisonous and encouraging their acceptance as a food.

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Hungary Hungary: Robert Gibbon Johnson is known for publicly eating tomatoes in Salem in 1820 to prove they were not poisonous. 8

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