This story is funny. It's not exactly determined where potatoes are from - something between Bolivia and Peru (south America) I guess (at least nobody knows that exactly).
Spain was the country with the first colonies in south America and adopted the potato as food for the ship crews - so it came to Europe. But to have a big success it needed the failed invasion of spanish troops in England in 1588 - when the spanish armada was beaten and sunken ship potatoes appeared at the shores of Ireland. The United Kingdom somehow adopted the potato - and as some kind of reigning world force UK made the potato better known.
Walter Raylaigh brought it back to England from America, it later spread to Ireland as a way for middle class Irish to supplement their diet and it eventually took over as a staple for the poorer classes.
peter 2nd brought them over when conquering
during the great potato famine and after it, Irish imigrated from Ireland bringing the spuds with them
They where brought by Irish immigrants in the mid 1700's.
Spanish conquistadors brought the potato from Central and South America back to Europe in the mid 16th century.
The potato originated in the Chilean Andes. So no, it is not native to the US.
the first potato planted in the US was in New Hampshire.
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There is no US capital named "for" a potato. The state of Idaho is used as the name of a type of large brown potato (Russet Burbank), which is grown there and elsewhere.
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Potato crisps (in the US they are called potato chips) are a snack rather than a meal.
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Washington, Oregon, Maine, and Michigan.