Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Brussels sprouts, lime amines, liver and onions.

Mention any of these to a child and they'd run the other way.

Heck, some adults might too.

Certain foods, no matter how you prepare them, just aren't appealing.

That doesn't mean we stop trying, though.

Whether we eat them fried, baked, or fricacid, we never cease to make the scene

seemingly inedible, edible.

Now imagine a world where we never had French fries, or mashed potatoes, or potato chips.

A world where the potato wasn't just ignored, it was rejected and even feared, strangely

enough, that world wasn't so long ago.

It all started during the early 16th century when the potato was first introduced to Europe

by Spaniards who had brought it from South America.

The French had no use for it beyond feeding their pigs.

They even believed ingesting it would cause leprosy.

Europeans as a whole kept their distance from potatoes for 200 years, until a man named

Antoine Augustin Parmentier entered the picture.

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