Not so much a rant as just an observation. I've noticed a lot of manga and manhwa use potatoes as the "go to" plant for food. It's not that I don't understand. Potatoes are hardy, produce a great many in short time, yada yada. However, every time I see it, I can't help but think of the various potato famines in the 1840s. It wasn't just Ireland, although they got hit the hardest. The reason it hit certain areas so hard, like Ireland, is BECAUSE of their heavy reliance on potatoes. So every time I read it and they are like, "Potatoes are a cure all!" I'm just sitting over here, screaming in my head, "Not again!"
I know this isn't the point of the story. I know she's looking at other crops. Most of them do. But every single time, they pick potatoes first and I can only gape in horror at the idea of a fictional world, 200 years from now, having the same kind of famine because they didn't have the thought of what heavy reliance on one plant might mean.
Not so much a rant as just an observation. I've noticed a lot of manga and manhwa use potatoes as the "go to" plant for food. It's not that I don't understand. Potatoes are hardy, produce a great many in short time, yada yada. However, every time I see it, I can't help but think of the various potato famines in the 1840s. It wasn't just Ireland, although they got hit the hardest. The reason it hit certain areas so hard, like Ireland, is BECAUSE of their heavy reliance on potatoes. So every time I read it and they are like, "Potatoes are a cure all!" I'm just sitting over here, screaming in my head, "Not again!"
I know this isn't the point of the story. I know she's looking at other crops. Most of them do. But every single time, they pick potatoes first and I can only gape in horror at the idea of a fictional world, 200 years from now, having the same kind of famine because they didn't have the thought of what heavy reliance on one plant might mean.