Posted on 05/23/2016 4:55:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Nonsense. The potato wasn’t cultivated in these countries before 1700.
The cultures preceeded the potato.
Which countries?
If they’re mashed, more can be fed, particularly if there’s a pizza place nearby that delivers.
I thought ringers were from the Salvation Army...
BTW, speaking of the Glorious Revolution, learned something new from the wiki-wacky (I think I was looking for dates, but due to a need for sleep my mind was just fruiting out on me, and I can’t remember now):
Glorious Revolution of 1688
http://www.landofthebrave.info/glorious-revolution.htm
English Bill of Rights 1689
http://www.landofthebrave.info/bill-of-rights-1689.htm
Quartering Act of 1774
http://www.landofthebrave.info/quartering-act.htm
http://www.google.com/search?q=Jacob+Leisler’s+Declaration
Leisler’s Rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisler%27s_Rebellion
The Jacob Leisler Treason Trial, 1691
http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/legal-history-eras-01/history-new-york-legal-eras-leisler.html
William Smith (1728-1793). The Rule of Jacob Leisler; and His Fate. Stedman and Hutchinson, eds. 1891. A Library of American Literature: An Anthology in 11 Volumes
http://www.bartleby.com/400/prose/332.html
Thanks for the info on potato’s.
I was just reading about bread and the article mentioned bread being starchy and heated at high temps. Would the same danger factors be involved in bread as with potato’s?
[There are about three hundred times more than] Sixteen Kinds of Potatoes
OTOH, the goose, deer & antelope, and bovine families don’t eat, trample, and make beds in growing potatoes.
Yes, I'm familiar with the vast number of potato varieties. Potatoes even have a link to Polynesian migrations as you probably know. The proliferation of sweet potatoes in Oceania, which are native to South America, provide proof Polynesians visited South America.
As I recall at the time of the Revolution New Yorkers of the Reformed faith tended to be Patriots while C of E types gravitated toward the Tories.
And coconuts — they can’t just float to a new island and germinate, the salt water soak kills ‘em daid. They had to have been brought by boat.
That might explain the loyalties of the Penn Dutch (Germans) and descendants of the New Amsterdam Dutch.
Cheers! Clink....
From up around Alpena? They grow some pretty good spuds around Hastings FL too.
The ones I can usually find are from southern Michigan, closer to the Ohio state line. I’ve got a feeling Meijer contracts with more local growers for their produce.
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