Humble Beginnings in Germany
credit: PotatoPro.com
🥔The potato arrived in Germany at the end of the 1500s, and was was grown almost exclusively as animal feed for the next 200 years. But, after a severe famine in the 1770s, German monarchs - including Frederick the Great of Prussia - promoted the kartoffel (translation: potato) as a staple food crop as well.
🥔Today Germany is the world's seventh largest potato producer, and the biggest in western Europe.
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