Thats not even the best part, he knew the french people wouldnt go along with it just because he said so even if he gave them away; So he posted guards around his fields to make the potatoes seem more valuable and instructed them to accept bribes and let people “steal” the potatoes until they had develop a taste for them.
If this guy didn’t get force fed potatoes for torture I wouldn’t get to enjoy my favorite types of potatoes including scalloped, baked, twice baked, fries, mashed and chips
If I ever get captured during a war, I hope it will be by an enemy who feeds me food that I find so delicious that I introduce it to Americans and name it after myself. That sounds better than my job, actually.
Potatoes and Tomatoes were slow to be accepted by Europeans because they looked so much like Deadly Nightshade (in fact they are closely related). Tomatoes were originally grown as ornamental plants, because they looked so much like the deadly nightshade no one dared to try eating it.
“I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can’t get the spices right!”
This isn’t the whole story – potatoes were actually introduced to France by an editorial writer who worked in a small French village of little renown. His efforts were ignored over the wealthy Parmentier’s, because he was just a common-tater.
In classical French cookery, if any dish has Parmentier in the name, it means it has potatoes as the main ingredient or in the garnish (Potage Parmentier, Pommes de Terre Parmentier (potatoes done in the style of Parmentier), Hachis Parmentier etc)
Thats not even the best part, he knew the french people wouldnt go along with it just because he said so even if he gave them away; So he posted guards around his fields to make the potatoes seem more valuable and instructed them to accept bribes and let people “steal” the potatoes until they had develop a taste for them.
If you have potato’s and butter, it technically has all the nutrients you need to survive
Po-ta-to
This man saved Matt Damon on Mars!
And he create “le hachis parmentier” à French recipe based by mashed potatoes and minced meat!
If this guy didn’t get force fed potatoes for torture I wouldn’t get to enjoy my favorite types of potatoes including scalloped, baked, twice baked, fries, mashed and chips
“Potatoes were declared edible”
If I ever get captured during a war, I hope it will be by an enemy who feeds me food that I find so delicious that I introduce it to Americans and name it after myself. That sounds better than my job, actually.
Potatoes and Tomatoes were slow to be accepted by Europeans because they looked so much like Deadly Nightshade (in fact they are closely related). Tomatoes were originally grown as ornamental plants, because they looked so much like the deadly nightshade no one dared to try eating it.
“I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can’t get the spices right!”
tell me you didn’t get this from mochi and waffles on netflix.
Idk him but he’s my hero
Literally had parmentier potatoes with dinner last night
Wait is this the origin story of “French Fries”?
Wilson, King of Prussia, I lay these ‘tates on you!
Frederick the Great: I’ve taught you well my young apprentice.
You would think they’d realize that anything keeping hogs alive is probably gonna keep them alive
“Oh no more potatoes please no!”
Wait, what’s a potato?
You can’t spell tribute without tuber.
Not only are they edible, they are fucking delicious.
He also invented how long a thing is along all its sides, which we still call ‘parmentier’ in his honour to this day!
This isn’t the whole story – potatoes were actually introduced to France by an editorial writer who worked in a small French village of little renown. His efforts were ignored over the wealthy Parmentier’s, because he was just a common-tater.
*Happy Irish noises*
Mmhhh le hachis-parmentier, merci à cet homme
That’s cool but can we please get him something else now?
In classical French cookery, if any dish has Parmentier in the name, it means it has potatoes as the main ingredient or in the garnish (Potage Parmentier, Pommes de Terre Parmentier (potatoes done in the style of Parmentier), Hachis Parmentier etc)
If it weren’t for this guy fries wouldn’t exist… please think about that all of my fellow Americans
Technoblade is proud
PO-TA-TOES
Great now I want mashed potatoes
Based Prussians
Potassium prince
Patron saint of Idaho material right there
This man is the reason I eat potatoes? Hats off
if it wasn’t for him, maybe we wouldn’t have french fries
If it wasnt for him fries wouldnt exist
France isn’t very good at hailing kings
Technoblade…
Potato
This have so little upvotes because its too long and the people are lazy i didn’t even read it.
Hachi-parmentier is the name of a potato meal in his honor.
r/TIL