Italian ad with nuns eating potato chips as communion wafers called 'blasphemy'

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Well, actually technically…

… potatoes got from South/Central America to North America via Europe.

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This source, or rather the essay by William H. McNeill within it, does not claim that “Pizarro brought them [potatoes] to Europe from the Incas”. Most sources put the potato’s arrival in Europ at around 1570 for Spain, and between 1588 and 1593 for Britain. The first written mention of the potato is a receipt for delivery dated 1567-11-28 between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Antwerp. McNeill describes how after 1545 the Spaniards used potatoes to feed it to thousands of conscripted silver m…