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Potato Rule (feddit.de)
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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

But surely there must have been some birds you could turn into the equivalent of chickens?

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry, 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.

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

The only ones I can think of are quail, turkey, and maybe geese. Everything else is either very small or not easily contained/trained.

[-] carnimoss@lemmings.world 40 points 1 year ago

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

[-] rustydomino@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

PO-TAY-TOES

[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This suddenly sounded psychopatic

[-] cicadagen@ani.social 21 points 1 year ago
[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

me when curly fry:

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago
[-] uriel238 7 points 1 year ago

The Conquest of ~~Bread~~ French Fries.

[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Obligatory shout-out to !potatoism@lemmy.world. Feel free to crosspost there.

[-] weker01@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

How does crossposting on lemmy work? I've never done it...

[-] FirstMajesticComet 3 points 1 year ago

Click the Two squares button that says crosspost.

[-] holyopt 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*Adding chips to grocery order I just made*

[-] ichmagrum@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

British or American chips?

[-] FirstMajesticComet 3 points 1 year ago

Potatoes are awesome, so many different and delicious ways to prepare them.

[-] lagomorph 3 points 1 year ago

I am so fucking hungry

We need more hungryposts on this sublemmy

[-] cupcakezealot 1 points 1 year ago

i just think they're neat

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I like potatoes, but hate most French fries

[-] FirstMajesticComet 2 points 1 year ago

That'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.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It'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.

[-] Enzy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Potato is a vegetable

Tomato is a fruit

[-] FirstMajesticComet 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They'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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[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

May I introduce you to cats and dogs

[-] Smorty 1 points 1 year ago

Naw, potatoes are better. They also taste better

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