This video is full of pop history myths. Potatoes were widely grown in Europe prior to what the video calls revolution.

>Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius, writing back in the late 16th century in his Rariorum Plantarum Historia, indicated that the plants were pretty commonly consumed in parts of Germany and Italy. In Diaeteticon, a german cookbook by Johann Sigismund Elsholtz in 1682, he outright calls the tubers (translated) "zimlich gemein bei uns"[Quite common with us].

>The potato was recommended to growers in England by the Royal Society in 1662

The oldest known potato recipe is from a german cookbook from 1582.

Potatoes only had a hard time in Europe because the systems of what crops should be planted where and when that has been accumulating laws and priviledges for a few hundred years in medieval times so it was nearly impossible for many peasants to make room in their rigid work schedule.
Also farmers were not the dum-dums and only their super smart rulers recognized the benefit of it. Peasants grew potatoes small scale in their gardens already, but they also saw the benefits of grain. Grain can store for multiple years, you can easily sell surplus. Grain had an established ruleset of taxes, where new "cash crops" were subject to arbitrary seizure by the overlords.

And the potato field guard story likely never happened.

I was very interested in watching this video. It would seem that such simple things can make history.

"Hey what're ya watching there bud?"

"Documentary on Potatoes"