How the Potato Changed the World

**microrobert** · 10-26-2011, 01:53 PM

How the Potato Changed the World

Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...#ixzz1btbBDuiD

**~~Laudanum~~** · 10-26-2011, 02:02 PM

I like potato's.

**MagnaLaurentia** · 10-29-2011, 04:10 PM

POUTINE POUTINE POUTINE POUTINE POUTINE POUTINE POUTINE POUTINE

**gold_fenix** · 10-29-2011, 04:17 PM

I have to say:
blessed potato

In Spain we have something similiar to pountine

Patatas bravas con alioli (braviolis)

**~~Peasant~~** · 10-29-2011, 04:22 PM

I prefer parsnip.

**~~Troll's Puzzle~~** · 10-29-2011, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by Peasant

I prefer parsnip.

Yes! me too.

Potatos are too dry and starchy. I can only really tolerate them as chips.
(and even then, celariac (another european-originated crop) chips are better!)

Parsnips, on the other hand, taste great all by themselves. (with no need to cover them in fatty sauces/cheeses over them!)

Plus, they're what our people ate before foreign potatos came in.

Gastric nationalism noW!!! Parsnip pride europe widE!!!!!