history: I could eat mashed potatoes all day!
knowledge: The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.
response: That sounds interesting, you would be eating a starchy, tuberious crop from the nightshade, Solanum tuberosum.
history: I could eat mashed potatoes all day!
That sounds interesting, you would be eating a starchy, tuberious crop from the nightshade, Solanum tuberosum.
Yes it is.  But it is delicous!
knowledge: It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following maize, wheat, and rice.
response: Cool, well would you be interested to know it is the 4th largest food crop?
history: I could eat mashed potatoes all day!
That sounds interesting, you would be eating a starchy, tuberious crop from the nightshade, Solanum tuberosum.
Yes it is.  But it is delicous!
Cool, well would you be interested to know it is the 4th largest food crop?
Oh wow just fourth? Seems low. Speaking of which, I have to do research on Malawi, do you know what it makes its money on?
knowledge: The main economic products of Malawi are tobacco, tea, cotton, groundnuts, sugar and coffee.
response: The main economic products of Malawi are tobacco, tea, cotton, groundnuts, sugar and coffee.
history: I could eat mashed potatoes all day!
That sounds interesting, you would be eating a starchy, tuberious crop from the nightshade, Solanum tuberosum.
Yes it is.  But it is delicous!
Cool, well would you be interested to know it is the 4th largest food crop?
Oh wow just fourth? Seems low. Speaking of which, I have to do research on Malawi, do you know what it makes its money on?
The main economic products of Malawi are tobacco, tea, cotton, groundnuts, sugar and coffee.
Cool thanks. Going back to potatoes, when did they arrive in Europe? I know my teacher told me it wasn't native but I don't remember when it arrived.
knowledge: Potatoes were introduced to Europe in the second half of the 16th century by the Spanish.
response: So the potato was introduced by the Spanish to Europe during the later half of the 1500s.
history: I could eat mashed potatoes all day!
That sounds interesting, you would be eating a starchy, tuberious crop from the nightshade, Solanum tuberosum.
Yes it is.  But it is delicous!
Cool, well would you be interested to know it is the 4th largest food crop?
Oh wow just fourth? Seems low. Speaking of which, I have to do research on Malawi, do you know what it makes its money on?
The main economic products of Malawi are tobacco, tea, cotton, groundnuts, sugar and coffee.
Cool thanks. Going back to potatoes, when did they arrive in Europe? I know my teacher told me it wasn't native but I don't remember when it arrived.
So the potato was introduced by the Spanish to Europe during the later half of the 1500s.
Was that during the Black Plague?
knowledge: The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia (from a species in the ''Solanum brevicaule'' complex), where they were domesticated approximately 7,000–10,000 years ago.
response: No clue on that, did you know that genetic testing has found that potatoes originated in where southern Peru and the extreme northwest part of Bolivia?