There were three primary different groups that pushed back on this. The first is the scientists who from all their studies knew that it caused all these bad things. Second were the clerics. And third, and this kind of makes the most sense among all of them, but it's stupid, was the gourmans. So people didn't want to eat the potato because the potato didn't taste like anything. It was boring. And notably, it caused flatulence. So it made people fart. It gave them the vapors. Yes. That was the gist of it. This is before fried potatoes. This is your been 17, 60s and 70s. What do you think? They

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