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Article: THE IRISH AND OTHERS ADOPTED POTATOES.(LIVING)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2002
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Byline: From staff and wire reports
The names range from the elegant - French pommes de terre and German kartoffel - to the lyrical - Hawaiian 'uala kahiki and Farsi sib'za'mi'ni.
The Irish Gaelic word is pratai, transliterated to ''praties'' in English (though more commonly known in Ireland as simply ''spuds'').
The Zulu word is izambane, Serbs say krompir and Malaysia weighs in with ubi kentang.
It's hard to find a language that doesn't have a word for potatoes because it's hard to find a country that doesn't eat them. Indeed, China, not chip-and-fry-loving America, is the world's largest potato producer.
Why are we all so ...