Potato is as important as Love

When speaking of potatoes, people always consider that they are so common that they are not worthy to talk about. But in the German's eyes, the potatoes are so excellent food. The German have a special love to the potatoes. The potatoes always help the German solve all kinds of problems every time they meet.

The potatoes museum in Munich is one of the three potatoes museums in Germany. This museum collects thousands of potatoes that come from all over the world. Besides the yellow potatoes, there are also the purple, black and red potatoes while they are in different shapes such as round, pine cone, moon, strip and so on.

The museum shows people the potatoes history and some kinds of delicious potatoes food by the way of paintings and sculpts. It is said that the potatoes are not popular when they are introduced into Europe because people say that they are the food for the nation which is uncultivated and conquered and can cause lepra and the noble Europeans never eat tuber food like that. The change of the attitude of Germany people to potatoes must owe to king of Fridrikh in Prussia. In the middle of 18th century, murrain and nature disaster strike Germany which result in total crop failure and lots of death for hunger. In this time, king of Fridrikh remember the potatoes which are easy to plant and can live lovely without careful care. He first vouchsafes the potatoes a royal reputation by letting the royal female leaguers wearing the potatoes flowers. Then, he asks the soldiers to plant many potatoes and send the most picked army, returning when night, to protect them when the potatoes pullulate. As a result, the curious peasants steal the potatoes by night. Generally, the planting of potatoes are popular. Up to now, you can see the potatoes are always putting in front of the grave which is in sans souci of Potsdam in Germany of king of Fridrikh.

Recently, the finance crisis befalls again. The diligent and saving German begin to eat potatoes again. There are many kinds of potato food such as potato powder, potato stripe, potato bolus, and potato rack and potato cake. In a word, there is everything about potatoes one expects to find in the supermarket in Germany. There are also some new things coming up about potatoes: potato hotel, travel service about potatoes, potato monument. In the state of below Saksun, when a young man and a young woman are in love, they would give a potato to each other because the potatoes are as precious as love to the local people.
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