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Sep 03, 2014
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The potato has been a dinner-table mainstay for most of the past five centuries. But according to The Wall Street Journal, it’s slowly falling out of favor with Americans. From 1996 to 2012, total annual consumptionof all types of potatoes dropped by nearly 25 percent (to 52 pounds a person). What’s more, from 1970 to 2012, consumption of fresh potatoes…

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