# Food ingredients now essential that were unavailable before Columbian exchange

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-ingredients-now-essential-that-were-unavailable-before-columbian-exchange/838230 "2019-08-06T12:39:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-ingredients-now-essential-that-were-unavailable-before-columbian-exchange/838230/61 "2019-08-08T18:20:20Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> I didn’t need to guess, I’ve made this many times. And I make my own dough for it.
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> Also, _loseyns_ - what modern dish would you think that was?

It’s not that far off lasagna

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**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-ingredients-now-essential-that-were-unavailable-before-columbian-exchange/838230/62 "2019-08-08T20:44:11Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> However, turnips dont grow like potatoes, which were a revolution.

Yes, but if you don’t have potatoes what you do have is turnips, beets, and the like. You are correct, potatoes are amazing - that _is_ why they took over so much farmland - but the question is what did people eat before they had access to the Wonder Spud.

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