It really is a great plant: Easy to grow even in bad soil, simple to harvest, full of starch, and easy to store without refrigeration. If you've got a sunny balcony and a big pot you can grow a fifty pounds a season, and you can start with potatoes you buy from the store.
While the Eastern hemisphere was breeding livestock the Western Hemisphere was breeding plants. (There's only one domesticatable animal in the Americas so they had some free time.) With that time they created potatoes, hot peppers, tomatoes, maize, squash, pineapples, peanuts, and many more.
49But surely there must have been some birds you could turn into the equivalent of chickens?
5Sorry, there are two domesticable species native to the Americas: Llamas and turkeys. (Three if you count alpacas.)
However, the strategy to getting meat was different in a lot of the Americas. They didn't want the big, stinky animals living nearby, so they'd manage habitats for wild animals. Then they'd go there to capture them.
This is also why explorers weren't hit that hard by disease. By not having much exposure to diseases from animals, there weren't that many the indigenous peoples could give to the Europeans, but the European livestock gave a lot of diseases back.
23The only ones I can think of are quail, turkey, and maybe geese. Everything else is either very small or not easily contained/trained.
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Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
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me when curly fry:
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12The Conquest of
BreadFrench Fries.7Obligatory shout-out to !potatoism@lemmy.world. Feel free to crosspost there.
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my life is potato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiqqC_fbP1c
i dream of potato
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*Adding chips to grocery order I just made*
5British or American chips?
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I am so fucking hungry
We need more hungryposts on this sublemmy
3Potatoes are awesome, so many different and delicious ways to prepare them.
3May I introduce you to cats and dogs
1Naw, potatoes are better. They also taste better
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i just think they're neat
1Potato is a vegetable
Tomato is a fruit
1They're more similar than one might think.
Did you know that you can make a Pomato plant with potatos underneath and tomatoes above by grafting them together?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-59FfmsTA
Definitely pretty cool.
Also Potatoes do grow little red berries that look like cherry tomatoes, just don't try eating them, they're poisonous and taste terrible and bitter.
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I like potatoes, but hate most French fries
1That's okay there's plenty of other ways to enjoy potatoes even if fries aren't your thing. That's the good thing about potatoes, they're very versatile in what you can make with them.
2It's not even that I hate fries either, it's just that all fast food and most restaurants don't do them well. I'll eat cube shaped mini fries, thick and moist fries, or nothing. Potatoes are great though, only rivaled by onions for me.
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