Yes. So many "traditional" European foods were actually brought back there after the invasion of the Western Hemisphere began in 1492. Tomatoes are another prominent example.
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@@Tommusixi can not imagine life without bread but I can imagine life without potatoes. That being said potatoes are an absolute miracle food. They have really good nutrients and can be used in so many different ways. They are also easy to grow and super cheap to buy.
I am from West Bengal which is a Bengali state in India... So, we Bengalis also love potatoes so so so much that in every veg or non-veg dish, we put potatoes 🥔 (Aaloo- potato in Bengali)... When I came to Germany then I realize that Germans and Bengalis have many things similar but the most important is Kartoffel !! I loved it... ❤😅😊
I remember a story from my childhood about the "Alte (old) Fritz" popularizing the potato by making a show about serving them at court and having the fields watched by armed guards during daylight hours. In order to tempt poor peasants into stealing from the fields at night. Because guarded fields would show those hungry enough that the strange bulbs must be good and worth eating the unknown.
Interesting. In china the potato was mostly brought in by Chinese pirates through european trade in the Ming Dynasty. It was the food of the poor. It grew in marginal areas, hills and mountains of China. potato still have a stigma as poor people's food. Even if people grew up eating it. They won't buy etc.. They don't want people to think they are poor. I had to take decades to get my parents to start eating potatoes again lol.
I ate really delicious fried potatoes in Yunnan. In my experiences the food in the poor provinces tastes much better than in the rich ones. It is simply fresher. 😊
It is kinda weird that people have that impression that we are obsessed with potatoes. Our consumption per capita is admittedly way larger than the world average, but we are just about average in Europe. Especially former Soviet Republics and East European countries eat way more. But also some South American countries, other Central and West European countries (e.g. UK 20 kg more per capita) or countries like Nepal and Rwanda consume way more. King is Belarus with 3x the German consumpion.
well, that is not that unusual for a German to sound like an Aussie. When I went to England in 1974 I was often asked if I was from Australia. Not everyone sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger. North Germans sound different when speaking English than folks from the south of Germany😁
Do you have a gray iron foundry nearby? The chips from machining of gray cast iron are great for growing tomatoes. They go off like rockets when you put the chips in the ground.
Sooooo important to show it all to the world. But one extremely important dish ist missing: Klösse or Knödel. In Frankonia where I come from or Thuringia which is my wife's home they're almost religion.
I like potatoes, some of 'em I love. I love baked potatoes, skin left on, with butter, sour cream, salt, black pepper, maybe bacon and melted sharp Cheddar cheese, chives, maybe some spring onion tops, (fully loaded, very nearly potatoes Brennsn - something to Google). I also like baked potstoesI'with chili con carne, shredded Cheddar cheese, and pickled jalapeño slices with sour cream. m also partial to mashed potatoes, with butter, salt and black pepper, or decorated with spring onion cuts, bacon crumbles, and Cheddar cheese. I don'tvcare for American potato salad, but do like the German (schwäbische) potato salad (I was tempted to write "Kartoffelsalat" or "Erdapfelsalat"). Also, potato bread is great!
"Potatoe salat with vienna sausages...its hardly get more german than that" - here DW is historical too correct. Because yes, Austria is still a "German" country when you look to the historical context of this attribute...but I bet they will hate this soooooo much to hear ;-)
@@dweuromaxx das erklärt es natürlich. Ich hatte ihn schon im Verdacht, dieser eine Leon zu sein, den wir alle im Bekanntenkreis haben, der nach dem Abi ein Jahr für Hike & Travel in Australien war und jetzt Ökofarming in Brandenburg macht.
Would had been nice if she had gone more in detail which type goes with which dish, instead of just glossing over this fact. I always have this problem with Frau Netto.
@@saba1030 Naa, die waren anders. Irgendwie schleimig, die haben gekocht sogar manchmal Fäden gezogen am Messer beim schneiden, waren aber echt gut, z. B. für Kartoffelsalat.
@@hape3862 OK. Kenn ich so nicht, habe deswegen extra gegoogelt ... und da kam die Antwort = festkochend, es wurden auch die Namen der "speckig en" Kartoffeln mit angegeben 🥔 Kannst ja mal schauen, ob die Lieblingskartoffel/speckig dabei ist. Guten Hunger 😊
My German-American mother served me WAY too many potatoes as a kid. Now I rarely eat them. And after a meat-filled childhood, I no longer eat any mammals either.. Potatoes are one thing, but I'm amazed that Germans still eat so much pig meat . . . ugh! 😫
