Who created the very first potato?

Baloo55th

You're asking for a religious debate here! The potato is a native of South America, and many wild varieties still survive. These are used for crossing with cultivated varieties (cultivars) to keep up the strength of the strains. It's a member of the solanum family (tomato, tobacco, deadly nightshade, thornapple and other weird and wonderful things) and evolved from a common ancestor of the other things in the family. Some of the Christians will say God created it, but most people accept that it evolved, as has every other species/genus that's alive. Jul 26 06, 3:53 PM

zbeckabee

George Lerner in the late 1940s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Potatoe_Head Jul 26 06, 4:00 PM

yumchicken

i ment the food. Jul 26 06, 4:06 PM

zbeckabee

Mr. Potato Head is a food. Jul 26 06, 6:14 PM

yumchicken

just a regular potato Jul 26 06, 6:42 PM

zbeckabee

Okay yumchicken...I give...BUT only because we're in the same groups. LOL Jul 26 06, 7:32 PM

Gnomon

People have been eating potatoes in South America for thousands of years. Jul 27 06, 1:05 AM

Baloo55th

The people who first discovered them would have boiled or baked them like other root vegetables they'd found on their way down to South America from Asia. Well, OK, their ancestors' way down... They didn't get there in one generation. Frying would be later as it takes more advanced metal work. You can boil stuff in wooden or pottery containers by dropping red hot stones into them, but you can't fry that way. Jul 27 06, 5:09 AM