#From a humble seed torchlight 3 bug full

Then around 1845 'spud' became the slang term for potato as a derogatory term. AlthoughВ the origin is unknown, it is thought that it is related to the Dutch word, 'spyd' a term used for a short knife or dagger taken from the Latin 'spad' a word root meaning 'sword.' Add a bit of Spanish, 'espada' to the English word, 'spade' or 'spadroon' and refer back to the 16th century where the wordВ 'spud' originates referring to a variety of digging tools. Then there's 'spud.' Originally this refers to digging in the soil, what we do to plant and harvest potatoes. Patata is taken from the Taino (a people of the Caribbean influenced by the Spanish conquest) word, batataВ which was combined with the Quechuan (one of the peoples of the Andes) word, papa. and we get 'potato.' Our English word, potato is taken from the Spanish word, patata. By 1848 an eighth of the Irish population had perished.ДЄ little bit Spanish, a little bit South American. The Irish peasants lost their homes, their farmland, and their lives due to starvation because of the terrible blight. It was used not only as sustenance to the poor population, it was used as payment to the landowners. The potato had become the main crop of Ireland.

#From a humble seed torchlight 3 bug full

British naval officers described seeing thirty-two miles of potatoes in full bloom, and the next day seeing 'the whole face of the country was changed the stalk remained bright green, but the leaves were all scorched black.' Within a week, the stems, roots and tubers turned black with rot. The highly infectious spores rod the moist winds of the unusually cool and overcast summers of 1845 throughВ 1847. A fungus that caused mildew to form on all parts of the potato plant spread throughout Western Europe in 1840.

There were over 3,000 varieties developed by their peoples alone. The potato was also the main staple for the Incan people of the Andes for over a millennia. The potato was theВ preeminent staple for the Irish people in the 1840s. Of course it is well-known that the Irish took to the potato, perhaps more than the rest of Europe.