>>2467446>>2467444>Goes on. InstantlyThis is the most ignorant thing I have ever read that just proves you have never grown a plant in your life. I still have potatoes in my pantry from last fucking summer, they preserve for ages naturally. Like at least 2 seasons even in bad conditions, easily through the winter.
Beans dry naturally on the plant as it turns to fall. If you've ever seen dried beans in a store, they didn't use a machine to do that. The plant does that in nature to preserve it's seeds for the next year.
Poisonous potatoes are easily distinguishable to the point where fucking monkeys and mice could easily learn Wich potatoes not to eat. "Because parts of the plant you don't eat are poisonous" is not a reason for people not to eat a plant.
You fucking redditors feel the need to make up a psudointilectual explination for fucking everything to sound smart instead of just saying nothing because you don't know.
Op, the answer to your question is that you are simply wrong in your assumption. root vegetables have been staple foods that took the place of grains in many cultures, mostly south American and African. The reason Western and Eastern cultures didn't eat starchy roots was because there were none that were native to those countries. Onions beans are the only bean that produces enough quantity of food to have become a major staple food
