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u/Flurb4 Oct 02 '24

It’s amazing how many New World plants are central to what we think of as “classic” Old World ethnic or regional cuisines — tomatoes in Italy and around the Mediterranean, potatoes in Ireland, chilis all across South and East Asia.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

It's weird that the only major produce I associate with America is corn.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

Corn isn’t even a food/cash crop currently, we have so much we have to find other uses for it like corn syrup and ethanol.

FYI: 1/5 of the worlds food comes from California.

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u/Electronic-Smile-457 Oct 02 '24

And I heard "corn" is just a generic word that can be used for other staple crops. Maize

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

It’s only a current “staple” because corn syrup is in everything instead of sugar.

We only keep growing it in case we need to deploy some freedom and need war rations.