079 Potatoes & Other Possibly Foreign Vegetables

All the "normal" colonial vegetables were foreign. Or they were imports anyway. Except for the famous ones - pumpkins (which are a fruit) and corn (which is a grain - mostly). But what is up with potatoes?<br /><br />All about potatoes - both kinds - and the general inability for English people to come up with useful descriptive clearly definative names for new stuff.<br /><br />Alsp how the Incan potato and the sweet potato did a complete status switcharoo in the colonies, and how pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie are the first American successes at fusion food.<br /><br />Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle<br />Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/<br />Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com <br />Twitter: @THoAFood<br />Instagram: @THoAFood<br />Post: @THoAFood