Could Potatoes have Saved the Roman Empire? [9:27]

YouTube ^ | April 1, 2025 | Garrett Ryan, Ph.D (as toldinstone)

[SunkenCiv]

What if the Romans had potatoes? This video ponders the historical implications.  

Could Potatoes have Saved the Roman Empire? | 9:27 
toldinstone | 558K subscribers | 34,106 views | April 1, 2025

0:00 Introduction
0:34 The Columbian Exchange
1:00 Potatoes in modern Europe
2:24 What if...
2:49 AG1
4:08 Potatoes in Rome
4:50 Population growth
5:34 Potato belt economics
6:38 Potential pitfalls
7:23 Spuds and duds

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.thespruceeats.com/history-of-bananas-as-food-1807565

https://eyesofrome.com/blog/eyes-on-storytelling/mystery-in-an-ancient-mosaic

[reasonisfaith]

Some have suggested Rome persists to this day in the form of the globalist cabal.

[SunkenCiv]

'1984' for vegetables. [2004/03/19]

[SunkenCiv]

If they did, they’re idiots.

[SunkenCiv]

That parsley true.

[waterhill]

Texas State Tech in Bellmead, TX. We were like a plague of locusts on the cafeteria.

[reasonisfaith]

The gist of the theory seems to be that the elite of Rome utilized the ancient practices of occult secrecy and sleight of hand, along with inter-generational involvement, as a means for perpetuating their power. These methods explain why the conspiracy is so well hidden.

A major link is the Roman Catholic Church, which is no stranger to secrecy, sleight of hand or holding onto power for century upon century.

[Clutch Martin]

My Jr. College used to serve breaded shrimp but it turned out to be shrimp flavored breading shaped like breaded shrimp. Great school, but the cafeteria was like a high school operation.

[Beowulf9]

[irishjuggler]

If the Romans had potatoes, then their most famous question wouldn’t have been “Et tu, Brute?” but rather something like “Visne fricta cum illo?”

[21twelve]

One of my kids came home from grade school (5th grade maybe?) - they must have been learning about Ireland or something.

“Hey dad - how many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?”
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“None!”

As crass as it was it was still funny.

[Qwapisking]

having a eye for the spud, dug dug.

[Qwapisking]

and thus missed the power vodka could have wielded over the masses. like in russia.

[Daveinyork]

“If” is a risky word to use regarding history. We can’t know all the variables.

[mewzilla]

We just had a POTATUS. Didn't work.

From 1963...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

[Flag_This]

Potatoes didn’t save the Incan empire…

[Sirius Lee]

Some have suggested Rome persists to this day in the form of the globalist cabal.

Yeah, they have skin in the game.

[MayflowerMadam]

“potatoes tend to vote Democrat.”

And some of THEM end up living in, and drooling in, the White House.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s because they didn’t have sour cream and cheddar cheese. Duh. ;^)

[SunkenCiv]

LOL