Vegetables:
The Potato - The Devils Vegetable
This humble vegetable has had a far from mundane history. Whilst venerated by ancient Peruvians, the Potato caused division between Catholics and Protestants in the mid-1700s. Suspicious of this 'devil vegetable', so called because it had to be 'buried like a corpse' before it would grow, the Protestants even took the fight to politics - in 1765 their slogan was 'No potatoes. No Popery.'
Famous Ideas and Beliefs
Victorian critic John Ruskin believed growing vegetables would better your position in society and improve your table manners. President Woodrow Wilson saw it as a cure for the 'extravagant and wasteful' ways of his people.
Other Vegetable facts
There are garlic inscriptions on Egyptian pyramids Peas, leeks, lettuces and beans are among the oldest vegetables in the world Maize was cultivated in Mexico 2,500 years ago but it is still a relative newbie.
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