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I belonged to a group once that called it "potato rage."

The funniest case of it was when it popped up in a supposed work of non-fiction! Informing us that the pagan Irish made jack-o-lanterns out of potatoes.

Oh that is too funny. But I honestly can't think of a potato getting that big.

The person who was reading it was laughing too hard to actually throw the book!

**scratches head.
Not potatos, but I do remember a banana incident. But it was the other way around. In the 1500s they were eating it as something exotic just arrived from America when the most popular banana variety comes actually from the Vietnam-China region and was known since the antiquity in the Mediterranean area and cultivated in the Canary Islands. Hm it was one of the CJ Samson novels now which one? hmmmm

Isn't it bad when authors do that? It simply breaks the spell for me when reading a historical.

You mean like Hershey's milk chocolate bars in the 1840s? Wow. You don't have milk chocolate bars until the 1870s or 80s, I think.

Kerosene in the 1840s is particularly painful, as not only the product but the word didn't exist. (Both came in during the mid-1850s.)

Chocolate bars were not until the 1890's.