Can't get enough of that New World Stuff
Sugar
The post-Columbian Europeans could not get enough sugar from the New World. The consequences of sugar consumption upon the health of the people of Europe was not good.
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Tobacco
Tobacco is another of the proletariat drug foods that came from the new world. As early as the 1600s some in Europe were remarking about the relationship between tobacco use and poor health, but the crop was still grown for export.
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Chocolate
Europeans soon discovered that when mixed with sugar, chocolate was an effective stimulant unlike any of the foods available in Europe prior to the contact with the new world.
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