The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

contradiction wrote:

contradiction wrote:
I'm not really sure how we missed #potatosocks

Worthy followup:

No, sleeping with a potato in your sock will not fight off viruses

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/verify/potato-sock-home-remedy-tiktok-virus-sick-illness-verify/275-fb96840c-7867-479f-ac1f-a785166d3d16

don't knock it until you try it…been covid free for decades with this method
but they are doing it wrong, it goes in your underwear, not your socks

I'm gonna be honest, not sure I trust this "doctor"I don't need evidence; I did my research!
"There isn't much evidence to show that potatoes are effective at drawing out toxins or will help you get over a cold faster," Dr. Robinson said.

contradiction wrote:
No, sleeping with a potato in your sock will not fight off viruses

nor will walking with a potato in the front of your underwear fight off virginity.

or, you know, so i'm told.

Robert Pattinson once did a body 'detox' that required him to eat nothing but potatoes for 2 weeks

"You definitely lose weight."


https://ew.com/celebrity/robert-pattinson-potato-cleanse-diet-detox-weight-loss/

Just boiled potatoes and Himalayan pink salt. Apparently it's a cleanse…

kosmo wrote:
Apparently it's a cleanse…

You misspelled "Irish Famine".

^^ Yes, I appreciate the joke above is not technically accurate and the Irish Potato Famine was a time with unedible blighted potatoes, not people eating nothing but potatoes. Congratulations on your pedantry in advance!

kosmo wrote:
Robert Pattinson once did a body 'detox' that required him to eat nothing but potatoes for 2 weeks

"You definitely lose weight."


https://ew.com/celebrity/robert-pattinson-potato-cleanse-diet-detox-weight-loss/

Just boiled potatoes and Himalayan pink salt. Apparently it's a cleanse…

it's called the mono diet (monotrophic diet).[font=roboto]  [/font]penn jillette lost over hundred pounds on a that same potatoes-only-for-two-weeks diet. per penn, it reset both his taste buds and his gut microbiome.  after two week you introduce other foods, but apparently by then your physical and mental relationship with food is very different.  penn now states that food isn't that interesting to him anymore, and animal products disgust him: "i eat whatever i want - but what i want has changed profoundly."  he did it for longevity reasons: "turns out that being with my kids is more important to me than chocolate cake".

How Penn Jillette Lost over 100 Lbs and Still Eats Whatever He Wants | Big Think <– in his own words on youtube, a recommended 10 minute investment of your time.


edit: in case you prefer the written word: How Magician Penn Jillette Lost 100 Pounds on the Potato Diet

<a href="https://soranews24.com/2023/01/26/mr-sato-angers-the-potato-gods-of-kogane-no-potatorado-restaurant/">Mr Sato visits</a> the "all potato" <a href="https://potatorado.jp/">Kogane No Potatorado</a> in Okinawa and is…confused.

The 80-million-year-old piece of fruit pushes back the known origins of the ancestor to [popular foods like tomatoes, potatoes, mint, and even coffee] all the way to the Cretaceous period, meaning these plants survived through the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs.

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/02/13/80-million-year-old-fossil-ancestor-of-coffee-and-potatoes-found-near-sacramento/

<a href="https://www.wnep.com/article/entertainment/television/wham-cam/wham-cam-why-potato-called-spud-joe-snedeker-wnep/523-99a05e0a-8de9-4227-a9b2-9a782e48813c">WhamCam: Why is a Potato called a Spud edition</a>

<a href="https://therecipecritic.com/crack-potatoes/">Crack Potatoes</a>

<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/massachusetts-cold-case-solved-thanks-to-a-sweet-potato/">Police make huge break in 2011 murder case — thanks to a sweet potato</a>

<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/10-wacky-ways-aren-t-095906588.html">10 Wacky Ways (That Aren’t About Cooking) To Use Potatoes Around the House</a>

What's the worst that could happen?

https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/bride-and-groom-roasted-for-using-potatoes-instead-of-confetti/

<a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/mars-settlers-potato-structures">Potato house on Mars</a>

contradiction wrote:
Potato house on Mars

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!!!  i like this take a lot better:

Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say
Charlton Heston was right — blood makes poor mortar (compared to potatoes, anyway).

A local potato-based controversy

FARGO — A Red River Valley farmer accused of lying about his failed potato crops is asking a federal judge to reinstate his ability to get federal crop insurance, with his attorney claiming the feds are trying to push him out of farming.

https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/accused-of-lying-about-failed-crops-north-dakota-farmer-claims-feds-are-pushing-him-out-of-farming

Would you paint a potato? Don’t worry, this isn’t some mad dadaist take on those old “You wouldn’t download a car” ads. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/06/with-eggs-so-expensive-should-we-be-painting-potatoes-this-easter-theres-only-one-way-to-find-out-">America, apparently, has been gripped with potato-decorating fever</a>, sparked first by memes about how expensive eggs are getting in the run-up to Easter, and then a concerted effort by Potatoes USA to get everyone’s favourite root vegetable briefly trending.

now that is some 'outside of the potato sack' kind of thinking we need in this world

what's great is instead of the unfound eggs stinking and rotting…you might actually get a potato plant to grow