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Dont Eat the Tomatoes: Theyre Poisonous! The first tomatoes were found growing wild by Indians in Peru and Ecuador thousands of years ago. The Indians brought the tomato plant with them when they moved north to Central America. The Spanish soldiers, who conquered Mexico in the early 1500s took tomato plants to Spain. The tomato soon made its way across Europe, but the English were wary of it. They thought it was not meant to be eaten. English doctors warned patients that tomatoes were poisonous and would bring death to anybody who ate one. For hundreds of years, both the English and t