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[โ€“] mysticpickle 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's because they used pewter containers which were pretty common back in the day. The acidity from tomatoes would leech the lead out of the pewter and into the tomato so anyone eating this lead infused tomato product was gonna be in for a bad time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I remember hearing that but I'd forgotten the specifics! Thanks!