Who was the fist to eat a potatoe?

Question

i wonder who was the first to have the guts to actualy eat a potatoe that is before anyone knew wat a potatoe even was...what was coca-cola first in its original form?before it was cooldrink

Answer 1

I think it first came from south america. As to who, uh, no idea.. The top portion of the plant is actually toxic to humans.

Answer 2

the potato is a new world starch. middle and south american indians were the first to eat it. coca cola was a health tonic and pain killer.

Answer 3

The history of the potato has its roots in the windswept Andes Mountains of South America. It is an austere region plagued by fluctuating temperatures and poor soil conditions. Yet the tough and durable potato evolved in its thin air (elevations up to 15,000 feet), climbing ever higher like the people who first settled the region.

The tough pre-Columbian farmers first discovered and cultivated the potato some 7,000 years ago. They were impressed by its ruggedness, storage quality and its nutritional value. Western man did not come in contact with the potato until as late as 1537 when the Conquistadors tramped through Peru. And it was even later, about 1570, that the first potato made its way across the Atlantic to make a start on the continent of Europe.

Though the tuber was productive and hardy, the Spanish put it to very limited use. In the Spanish Colonies potatoes were considered food for the underclasses; when brought to the Old World they would be used primarily to feed hospital inmates.

Answer 4

I can not tell you who eat them first but potatoes were eaten and used to survuve on in Irland many years ago.

Answer 5

Mike is right, the potato originated in South America on the borders beteween Peru and bolivia so I'd imagine that the Peruvians and Bolivians were the first to try it.

Iffy, can you please do some proper research before you spout misinformation and offend a whole nation of people.

As for Coca Cola - no idea.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify the Ireland-potato relationship.

Irish peasants were forced off their lands by British occupiers and had their livestock, crops and livelihoods taken from them too. The landlords allowed the peasants to stay on the land and gave them little more than shacks to live in provided that they work the land for them. Many people had no choice so they stayed and lived off a diet of potatoes and little else as there was nothing else to eat. When the potato crop failed there was a famine among Ireland's poorest people causing the death of thousands, and mass emmigration. More died on 'coffin ships' to America because of disease and close quarters.

The potato is still a big part of the Irish diet and is the main stay of most Irish dinners, much like rice in Africa/Asia and pasta in Continental Europe.

Answer 6

Probably someone from south america (frow where the potato came) who saw an animal dig one up and eat it.



or maybe they saw it partially digested in some butchered hunted animal's stomach, had a taste, thought it was good, followed the the other animals to see where they got it, the  dug up a few and ate them..

No one can really say for sure who the absolutely first one was..

But whoever it was,  thank you!!

Answer 7

I think it was the Irish, possibly in the middle ages.  But that may not be right.  I seem to remember them eating a lot of them in the "black death" rat outbreak?