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As someone who lives "out in the country" I can tell you from experience that city people will walk right past a field full of food without even recognising that it is food. They're too used to seeing the polished, buffed and packaged thing that ends up in the supermarket.

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That sounds quite harsh. People that live in cities aren't stupid.

Not stupid, they just don't know what a lot of food looks like before it's been processed into food. Not their fault, just a fact.

Wheat looks like grass if you aren't familiar with it.

ditto potato plants - only the roots are what you want, and as they're invisible, if you don't know what a potato plant looks like, you'll have no idea you're looking at food, as OP says.

I could go on for a while, but you get the gist.

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