### ch05p161 potatoes are army-resistant > In the mid-eighteenth century, the fallout from the Seven Years' War demonstrated another advantage of the potato: lurking underground, this crop -- unlike cereals -- could survive in fields that had been burned and trampled. Useful for medieval fantasy. #articleseed/addendum to tweet for worldbuilding detail. - [[Tamed by Alice Roberts#ch05p161 potatoes are army-resistant|View in Vault]]