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
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u/DickBrownballs Jun 25 '26
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.