Posted Jul 28, 2003 by  Gnomon [See A60420098 for details of new sign-in system]
Potatoes were unknown in Japan in the 10th Century. Up to the 15th Century, they were restricted to the Americas.
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Posted Jul 28, 2003 by BobTheFarmer. I'm not really here.
Dammit, outspeeded by the Gnomon...  I was just about to jump in with that but the fount of knowledge got there first. 
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Posted Jul 28, 2003 by Saturnine
*now wonders where she wrote about "Potatoes"*
I haven't looked at this Guide Entry for a while.
Not that I can do anything about it now. 
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Posted Jul 28, 2003 by Saturnine
Ah yes. Well, not being proficient on the topic of the pomme-de-terre, I can only hold my hands up and say "Oops"... 
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Posted Jul 28, 2003 by BobTheFarmer. I'm not really here.
'The meals they took were based around a staple diet of white rice, rice mixed with millet, or potatoes, depending on what foods were available to them at the time, or the region that they lived in.
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Third paragraph after 'History of Bento'
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Posted Jul 28, 2003 by Gnomon [See A60420098 for details of new sign-in system]
Is it only Irish people who carry an image in their heads of Sir Walter Raleigh presenting a pipe of tobacco and a potato to Queen Elizabeth?
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Posted Jul 28, 2003 by BobTheFarmer. I'm not really here.
Nope, some half-chinese do as well...
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Posted Jul 28, 2003 by Saturnine
I'm not that educated enough to think of anything but a potato in the ground.
No, really.
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