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>>14890460
Foraged this by the ford on my property. They are american groundnut or hopniss. They are a tuber that is delicious peeled and fried in duck fat. Tastes like a mix between a peanut and a potato. I also dried a bunch to grind up and use as a soup thickener.

>>14831892
Potatoes aren't a grain. They were, however, used to oppress the irish, since a large number of them could be grown in a small amount of poor soil, which was the only land the British would allow the Irish to have.

Potatoes are not a food indigenous to Europe either. They are a South American food.
Tubers like carrot, radish, onion, garlic, beet, and turnip are more what European peasants eat. In fact, tubers are eaten by traditional peoples all over the world. I actually foraged some hopniss (american groundnut) this year, and I peeled and fried it in some duckfat. It was delicious, it tasted like a combination of potato and peanut!

Grains like wheat really have nothing in common with potatoes, at all.