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Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew (lemmy.world)

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Not only are they versatile, they're easy to grow in marginal soils without extra irrigation, store for a long time without refrigeration, can be dehydrated and stored even longer, and if it starts sprouting you can just plant it again and get more potatoes.

If there's two plants you should learn to grow for the apocalypse I recommend potatoes and pumpkins and if you can pick one it's definitely potatoes.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Now that said, potatoes only is probably not a great "Plan A."

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I wonder if that was a case of a lack of genetic diversity. Potatoes are indigenous to the Americas, so there's a lot more diversity which can help protect against disease.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

For Ireland at least, it seems you’re not wrong.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

The Irish famine was ultimately caused because their English landlords demanded they send their cash crops away to make them money, and the main thing they had left was potatoes. The potatoes weren't plan A, they were plan Z after everything else was stolen from them. It was caused by colonialism. Yes, the potatoes were too important and the monoculture was a problem, but it's not like they didn't know that, they just didn't have the freedom to do it better.

The potato blight actually returned some years later but by that time they had organised militant eviction defense to prevent the destruction of their communities and far fewer people died.

So a lot of historians and the Irish themselves will object to calling it the "potato famine" because it grossly distorts the reality of what happened.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Technically, I never said whose Plan A...

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

Fair lol.

[-] JayObey711@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

"The crisis prorduced excess mortality" is a great way of putting that

[-] oessessnex@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago

You don't even need soil, you can just put them on the ground and cover them with hay, and they grow just fine.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

And they're prolific. With intensive cultivation you can get hundreds of pounds a year out of a hundred square feet.

[-] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

I just watched "The Botany of Desire" with Michael Pollan, and learned a fuck ton about potatoes. I agree lol

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

Pumpkins I'm curious about. All I can even think of to do with a pumpkin is pie, though I'm sure there's probably more traditionally done with them

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can do a lot of the same things you do with potatoes: Boil 'em, bake 'em, fry 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. Put them together and you get a complete protein.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

As far as your stomach knows, all potatoes are mashed potatoes!

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago

Am I weird for disliking only mashed potatoes? I love potatoes in every other form

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

Yes, you are. That's OK though. Nothing wrong with being weird.

[-] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I wonder, is it all mashed potatoes or the really thin soupy kind? Or even chunky kind with skins in them?

I ask because i was watching a YouTube short where the guy claimed "this is why restaurants have the best mashed potatoes" then proceeded to make the soupiest mashed potatoes i have ever seen... Never disliked a short so fast in my life.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In case you're still feeling cheated out of mashed potato content, I'll share that Adam Ragusea has a couple of good videos on the food science of mashed potatoes:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=u94l5bS2d_o

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NYDyobSRmw8

[-] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Ooh this is the painting my parents have but their print is super faded and blue, I've wanted to get them a new one for years but never knew what it was!

Does anyone know what this is called please? Thank you :-)

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

It appears to be Maternal Affection by Emile Munier; however, I'm finding 2 different artworks under this name...

One and Two

[-] oyfrog@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Raw?

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Yes. I eat them like apples.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

They're the apple of the earth 😋

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

French person spotted.

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Or Austrian. (Erdapfel)

[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I made the mistake of juicing raw potatoes once, figuring the other vegetable juices like beets and carrots would mask any of the potato flavor.

Won't ever do that again.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago

Fuck yeah!

[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

Boil ’em, Mash ’em, Stick ’em in a Stew.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Fermented?

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I’ll try anything once. Although you may be right, fermented may be one form I’ll say “No, thanks” to.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

This post speaks to me.

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