I will be the first to admit that this story is potentially largely apocryphal. Some claim these details go to a royal leader in France, but that's also debated. The general ideas here are, to the best of historians' knowledge, true, though to what extent is up for debate.
Regardless, Frederick the Great is known as "Der Kartoffelkönig" (The Potato King) because he helped popularize the vegetable in central Europe! This is (probably) the story of how he did so!
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