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It would be more accurate to ask what year where they first cultivated. Potatoes grew wild in South America and were brought over to Europe in the 1500's. They were not popular eating until several hundred years later. In the late 18th century, a Frenchman name Auguste Parmentier championed them as being an excellent solution to feed the hungry masses.

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