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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

[–] rustydomino 9 points 10 months ago

PO-TAY-TOES

[–] Sanyanov 2 points 10 months ago

This suddenly sounded psychopatic

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] RIP_Cheems 10 points 10 months ago

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[–] KpntAutismus 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

me when curly fry:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] KpntAutismus 1 points 10 months ago
[–] lazycouchpotato 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Obligatory shout-out to [email protected]. Feel free to crosspost there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Click the Two squares button that says crosspost.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The Conquest of ~~Bread~~ French Fries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

*Adding chips to grocery order I just made*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

British or American chips?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I am so fucking hungry

We need more hungryposts on this sublemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] TotallynotJessica 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like potatoes, but hate most French fries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] RIP_Cheems 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

May I introduce you to cats and dogs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Naw, potatoes are better. They also taste better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

i just think they're neat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Potato is a vegetable

Tomato is a fruit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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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