Potato blossoms used to be a big hit in royal fashion.  Potatoes first became fashionable when Marie Antoinette paraded through the French countryside wearing potato blossoms in her hair.

White potato plants belong to the same group as tomatoes, tobacco, chilli pepper, egg plant and petunias.

Thomas Jefferson gets the credit for introducing “French fries” to America when he served them at a White House Dinner.

The Inca Indians in Peru were the first to cultivate potatoes around 8,000 BC to 5,000 B.C.

Sir Walter Raleigh introduced potatoes to Ireland in 1589 on the 40,000 acres of land near Cork

The potato is the world’s fourth largest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize.

Potatoes are sometimes called spuds, or if you hail from Scotland, tatties!

Based on 2010 statistics, China is the leading producer of potatoes.

The word potato comes from the Spanish word patata.