Why the 🇫🇷 hate Potatoes 🥔... #4k #history — Transcript
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- 0:00French people hate potatoes, or at least
- 0:02used to. In the 1780s, the French were
- 0:05dying of starvation. It wasn't like
- 0:07there wasn't anything to eat though,
- 0:08since there were plenty of potatoes
- 0:10around. But, the French rather starve
- 0:12than eating a nutritious potato. For
- 0:14hundreds of years, they genuinely
- 0:16believed potatoes caused deadly
- 0:18illnesses, to the point the French
- 0:19parliament even officially banned the
- 0:21cultivation of them. One guy,
- 0:23commissioned by the king, who knew
- 0:24potatoes were actually a superfood, was
- 0:27asked to change that. But, how do you
- 0:29convince the working class to eat what
- 0:31they think is poisonous pig food?
- 0:34Simple. He bought a two-acre land,
- 0:36planted a bunch of potatoes, and then
- 0:38paid a armed guard to protect the farm
- 0:40at all cost. People assumed armed guards
- 0:43meant something very valuable was
- 0:45growing there, so they began to steal
- 0:46the potatoes, causing them to become
- 0:48popular. The farmer even told his guards
- 0:50to accept bribes and to not actually
- 0:52catch anyone trying to steal something.
- 0:54The reverse psychology worked amazing,
- 0:57and then the French Revolution started.
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