Post #2009103

I’m not too strong on history, but on reading an “on this day” I realise I have a fixed point (of about 100 years) that European history is divided by in my head. It’s the “before/after potatoes” divide. That old guy that did a thing? He lived without eating potatoes. Skirrets were the winter storage starch before potatoes and it took 50-100 years before potatoes gradually ousted skirrets after their introduction. No potatoes- can you imagine? #skirrets #potatoes