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Thread #92494   Message #1853348
Posted By: Rapparee
08-Oct-06 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
Even though I live in Idaho, I don't eat potatoes, either. For the same reason.

And green tomatoes, even fried or chutneyized, still contain the poisons.

Don't eat 'em 'cause you'll die.

Parenthetically, potatoes aren't really vegetables at all. They are actually blind subterranean parasit es similar to slugs or nematodes, which are attracted to the roots of the potato plant and which they find by using sensory organs in the so-called "eyes". They attach themselves to these roots and suck nutrition from the plant and if this goes on long enough the plant will wither and die. Potatoes are considered a crop because people planted the plants in fields to attract the potatoes, which migrated to the plants and which continue to do so today. Idaho, for example, used to be a large, high, plateau but so many potatoes migrated that whole areas collapsed and formed valleys and mountain.