White potatoes used to be called bastard potatoes (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

In the end of the 16th century, white potatoes (what we would now know as just potatoes) were called Virginia potatoes, or bastard potatoes. This was to separate them from sweet potatoes, which were the first ones to enter the diet of Europeans.

 

[Ahsoka]

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[Snailmin]

Now I wonder why we changed it to only potatoes

 

[uran]

I has learned

 

[gone4good]

bastard potatoes

 

[ChiaraStar169]

and they somehow moved up from Virginia to Idaho? /j ik Virginia wasn't even a state until way later, butI still find it hilarious!

 

[Selfmate]

"Bastard Po-ta-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew"

 

[Chohee_nyang]

Are white potatoes, the normal potatoes or the other kind?

 

[Ahsoka]

Are white potatoes, the normal potatoes or the other kind?

The normal ones yeah

 

[Ahsoka]

Now I wonder why we changed it to only potatoes

White potatoes grow better in England so they became the default over time

 

[Moguri]

what a negative word to use

Moguri likes sweet potatoes better though

 

[Chohee_nyang]

what a negative word to use

Moguri likes sweet potatoes better though

Me toooo, I like em boiled

 

[Chohee_nyang]

The normal ones yeah

Oooh cool

 

[HugeBakkaeMotae]

TIL I'm a white potato.