Are potatos called spuds

Answer 1

During the 17th through the 19th centuries every square inch of Ireland was owned by some great landlord, either and Englishman or a wealthy Irish Protestant. The vast majority of productive agricultural land was given over to sheep farming or raising crops for export to England. The poor Catholic Irish had to make do with trying to raise food on marginally arable land. There was very little that would grow on the acres they had available to them. Potatoes are a hardy crop that will grow almost anywhere and produce abundantly. As a result potatoes became not merely a staple of the Irish diet but were often the only thing they had to eat. Thus they became known as potato eaters or potato people.

Answer 2

The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. The name potato originally referred to a type of sweet potato.

Answer 3

Potatoes originate from the andeas in south America where the grow in many variations. When grown over an elevation of 9000 feet they contain a higher concentration of glycoalkaloids which gives them a bitter taste (all wild potatoes do already taste bitter).

The Inca empire which spanned right down the west coast of south America from Peru to Chile had a language called Quechua (or runasimi) in which they called potatoes "papa." This where we get the word potato from as it gradually worked it's way into the English language and became pronounced differently, not surprisingly the pronunciation was altered since the Inca empire did not use writing and the invasion of the Spanish conquistadors could have meant there was most probably an early Spanish translation first.

Answer 4

They are nicknamed after the "spud", a tool once used for planting potatoes.

Answer 5

because someone nicknamed it "spud" because of a once used tool for growing them called a spuder

Answer 6

because they look like u!lulz

Answer 7

Because it is. deal with it.

Answer 8

yes they are!