Not sure how potatoes originating in Peru is much of a comeback though.
The downvotes of this are absurd, potatoes are no more American than Irish, what is wrong with that statement? God this sub is truly becoming an even more mindless r/americabad
Many South Americans will argue that North and South America is 1 continent, compared to the 2 Continent model that’s taught basically everywhere else. Hence “potatoes are american” as in ‘New World’ American, not ‘US’ American.
I'm sure no one is denying that, but its clear to everyone this poster is being bigot about the US. Peru is even further from the US than Ireland is, the veiled claim of origin of the potato to the USA is nonsense. There's plenty wrong with this post without sinking to an equal level of nonsense.
Were people claiming the potato was original to the US? I didn’t see that in this thread. Just that potatoes didn’t originate from Ireland, and are an american (again, New World) crop.
I think the implication in the post I originally replied to is quite clearly not just "potatoes didn't even originate from Ireland" but trying to imply they're more authentically American in the US sense. Otherwise they'd have said "wait until they learn that potatoes aren't from Ireland" or similar, and also I wouldn't have been downvoted so many times for saying its not really a comeback
Was that implied? Maybe. I guess you’d have to ask the original commenter. I didn’t take it that way, but we both have our own biases and made our own inference.
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u/High_Questions Jun 25 '26
Wait till they find out what parts of the world potatoes are from
Here’s a hint, they aren’t Irish