Read this paragraph from the article.Whether mashed or roasted, white or sweet, potatoes had no place at the first Thanksgiving. After encountering it in its native South America, the Spanish began introducing the potato to Europeans around 1570. But by the time the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, the tuber had neither doubled back to North America nor become popular enough with the English to hitch a ride. New Englands native inhabitants are known to have eaten other plant roots such as Indian turnips and groundnuts, which they may or may not have brought to the party.What does the phrase nor become popular enough with the English to hitch a ride tell readers about the potato?

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Read this paragraph from the article.“Whether mashed or roasted, white or sweet, potatoes had no place at the first Thanksgiving. After encountering it in its native South America, the Spanish began introducing the potato to Europeans around 1570. But by the time the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, the tuber had neither doubled back to North America nor become popular enough with the English to hitch a ride. New England’s native inhabitants are known to have eaten other plant roots such as Indian turnips and groundnuts, which they may or may not have brought to the party.”What does the phrase “nor become popular enough with the English to hitch a ride” tell readers about the potato?

A	People in England preferred eating Indian turnips and groundnuts to eating potatoes.
B	People in England were planning to take the potato with them on the Mayflower but changed their minds.
C	People in England did not like the potato enough to bring it with them on the Mayflower.
D	People in England did not like eating potatoes because the potato had been introduced to Europe by the Spanish.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Whether mashed or roasted, white or sweet, potatoes had no place at the first Thanksgiving.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are only two surviving documents that reference the original Thanksgiving harvest meal. They describe a feast of freshly killed deer, assorted wildfowl, a bounty of cod and bass, and flint, a native variety of corn harvested by the Native Americans, which was eaten as corn bread and porridge.

Detailed explanation-3: -So, to the question “What did the Pilgrims eat for Thanksgiving, ” the answer is both surprising and expected. Turkey (probably), venison, seafood, and all of the vegetables that they had planted and harvested that year-onions, carrots, beans, spinach, lettuce, and other greens.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest by firing guns and cannons in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The noise alarmed ancestors of the contemporary Wampanoag Nation who went to investigate.

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