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Mani's family lives in , Tamil Nadu. One day Mani's teacher informed that potatoes were  vegetables, and we must consume foods that are  grown. He refused to eat his favourite curry, and then his parents started telling him the actual story. They explained to him that many vegetables including potatoes, ladies finger, , corn etc were brought in to India by  sailors who were looking for spices in our country. Vasco da Gama, a  sailor, landed in  and he was elated to find black pepper. Similarly, Christopher Columbus, another sailor who wanted to come to for pepper, landed accidentally in , where he found chillies. If not for him, the world may not have known about the spice called  at all. Mani and his sister Selvi were astonished by the fact that these vegetables have travelled a long way to make their food !