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Potatoes are a surprisingly interesting product by the way.

For example, there introduction into europe singlehandedly lowered civilian deaths from wars to drop by something like 75% since unlike native crops they were useless as war rations... so farmers afterwords were  encouraged to always plant a "war field" of potatoes to get their family through incase of war and soldiers stealing all their grain.