Facts About Potatoes

More people die from eating potatoes than being eaten by them. I wonder why…

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

you want to be mommy’s adjective noun, don’t you, pet name? you want to verb and verb for mommy like a good gender

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"I love you. ...That was for the potatoes, not for you."

I am now in debt to someone I have never met before

If you did this to a human they wouldn’t like it but potatoes aren’t even remotely scared of this

blight is a funny word to me because all this time i thought wow its another word for light and then turns out my dear friends - the potatoes - are affected by it big time

There's an above zero possibility that someone you know may one day casually say some shit like "I don't get why people like potatoes, I'd never eat them voluntarily, they just taste like vaguely bitter watery dirt and if you like the texture, you could literally just eat an apple instead" and that's how you find out that nobody in their family knows that you're supposed to cook them first.