OT. National Tater Day

[Dean Hoffman]

The local TV hosts claimed there are something like 4000 varieties of potato. Excluding breakfast, a meal without some form of potato is rare.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Although I love potatoes, I rarely eat them. I'm much more likely to eat bread.

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This reminds me of a lecture I heard from Bruce Ames over thirty years ago mentioning that a potato had been developed that was totally resistant to all pests and diseases that effected potatoes but also could not be eaten.

[Marilyn Manson]

As far as I am concerned, it is always Tata Day. There are way more than 4000 varieties of Tatas. A day without some form of Tata is disappointing.

Oh wait...did I read that wrong?

[Marilyn Manson]

You need to be more specific.

Pizza:

Hot dogs: Individual pies: Sausage roll: Salad: Quiche:

[rbowman]

I often bake yams or sweet potatoes but very rarely get white potatoes unless I'm making stew or colcannon. When someone recently asked if I were a meat and potatoes person I answered 'mostly meat'. I do eat veggies just not potatoes.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Everybody's different. I'd say I'm a vegetable person, but I classify potatoes as a starch (just like bread or pasta). Not a vegetarian, but a couple of ounces of meat is usually enough for me, and I do a fair number of meatless meals. I like to see a lot of vegetables on the plate.

[rbowman]

I did vegetables and fish for a few years. I didn't have a problem with it but after my annual physical showed me borderline low on hemoglobin I went back to heme sources. My timing was bad with Bloomberg advising us to eat lentils rather than $10 a pound hamburger.

[T]

I am wondering where it April Fools line is in this one. 4000?

[T]

Any high fat and low carb variety for us T2's?

Have not touched a potato for eight years now. (I enjoy keeping my toes.)

[T]

Vegi's is my downfall. I love them too much and I am limited on how many of them I can yet.

[rbowman]

Not 4000 but there are a lot of them.

[T]

I am still thinking April Fools joke somewhere

[Ed Pawlowski]

[rbowman]

Confuse Potato Day and Tater Day at your own peril.

[T]

So Sweet potatoes use to be called "Taters"

Peanut use to be called "goober peas"

[rbowman]

After all they are legumes and not nuts. Ever had boiled peanuts? I think you have to be born and bred in Alabama to get into them.

I caught a show on the History channel while doing my rehab that was about the inventors of candies one being Reese's peanut butter cups. Reese had worked for Hershey and went off on his own in 1923. Hershey eventually bought the company.

The interesting part was in 1923 peanut butter was a specialty item, not the ever present commodity it is today. Kellogg was one of the earliest producers and got a patent in 1895. He ran a sanitarium and promoted vegetarianism. Peanut butter was a way to get protein in a vegetarian diet.

Sorry, wokies, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter.

"Kellogg dedicated the last 30 years of his life to promoting eugenics. He co-founded the Race Betterment Foundation,[7] co-organized several National Conferences on Race Betterment and attempted to create a 'eugenics registry'. Alongside discouraging 'racial mixing', Kellogg was in favor of sterilizing 'mentally defective persons', promoting a eugenics agenda while working on the Michigan Board of Health[8] and helping to enact authorization to sterilize those deemed 'mentally defective' into state laws during his tenure."

Just another evil white racist...

[T]

Goober Peas - Classic Comical Confederate Civil War Song

I can not call them peanuts anymore.