I could eat mashed potatoes all day!
potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.
Yes it is.  But it is delicous!
Sure it is  Interestingly,  It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following maize
Oh wow. I just buy it in the store. I can't grow anything
The main economic products of Malawi are tobacco, tea, cotton, groundnuts,in malawi
I don't live in Malawai though.
Potatoes were introduced to Europe in the second half of the 16th century 
Was that during the Black Plague?
originally believed to have been domesticated by indigenous peoples of the Americas independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species traced a single origin for potatoes. In the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia, from a species in the "Solanum brevicaule" complex, potatoes were domesticated approximately 7,000–10,000 years ago. In the Andes region of South America, where the species is indigenous, some close relatives of the potato are cultivated. 
Potatoes were introduced to Europe from
List of potato dishes
This is a list of potato dishes that use potato as a main ingredient. The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize. The annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the 21st century included about of potato. The potato was first domesticated by the Andean civilizations in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia between 8000 and 5000 BCE. It has since spread