> What sort of things were you making with the potatoes? Just to get a picture of what the family ate, and accompanied it with. In the country I'm from potato

> What sort of things were you making with the potatoes? Just to get a picture of what the family ate, and accompanied it with. In the country I'm from potato is the main ingredient in traditional cuisine (you could try to guess what country it is): - potato in any form: baked, boiled, fried, mashed; often with cutlets/baked fish/beans and onions - various soups with chicken/meatballs and vegetables - potato pancakes[1] - some salads where potato is a main ingredient[2] I might've missed some, but in our family we basically ate boiled potatoes every dinner. > Did you and any siblings find it miserable or did you cope well? Yes, both miserable from eating it so often, and from having to help in the vegetable garden (it was forced by our parents). 8 year later, I still feel oversaturated by eating it and I consume it not very often. > How did you address disease being introduced when resowing? We collected potato beetles by hand... I still remember half-cut 1L bottles with them. Some chemicals existed at that time, but we never used it, probably because parents thought that they might be harmful for humans... > ...I find that the inside is diseased Surprisingly, not much tubers were diseased or rotten. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_pancake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_pancake [2]: https://sweetandsavorymeals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/potato-salad-recipe-1024x1536.jpg.webp https://sweetandsavorymeals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/p...