Potato is a plant with an edible tuber that is used often in cuisine. Do you like potatoes?
I hear that the potato was a reason the Irish were in a famine. Can you tell me more about the tubular, plant?
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine (, ), or the Great Hunger, was a period in Ireland between 1845 and 1849 of mass starvation, disease, and emigration. With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was primarily spoken, the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as , loosely translated as the "hard times" (or literally, "The Bad Life"). The worst year of the period, that of "Black 47",
Potato
The potato (also referred to as tater, tattie, and spud) is a root vegetable that is part of the plant Solanum tuberosum. This perennial is part of the family Solanaceae or the nightshades. In many contexts, the word "potato" refers to the edible starchy tuber portion of the plant, but it can also refer to the plant itself, which is native to the Americas.
Wild potato species can be found throughout the Americas, from the United States to southern Chile. The potato was