Chew 'em, swallow 'em, turn 'em into poo!

If my memory serves it was over a year, and the only thing he needed was B12 tablets.

potatoes are awesome but you can have a bad harvest

I believe potatoes and cheese ultimately provide all the nutrition the body actually requires for average daily modern life.

Like, you can actually be physically healthy and well by eating nothing else.

Mentally speaking the jury is still out regarding the health of a person who chooses to live on nothing but potatoes and cheese, but daily nutritional requirements are absolutely met.

Definitely need some multivitamins too though.

In your face, Neil Armstrong!

A quick search brings up a couple people who have done this (Ireland notwithstanding). I remember this guy doing it, but there are others.

Slime Mold Time Mold did a community trial of the potato diet awhile back

Trial

Four weeks

6 Months

You really have to define what “only potatoes” means, because most potato dishes also have a bunch of other ingredients

Wasn't that experiment done on Mars, out of necessity, in a book?

Even on mars!

Ethanol: Renewable fuel blended into gasoline.

When I was living in Nebraska for a few years, I was surprised to find that Super Unleaded gasoline was always cheaper at the pump than regular Unleaded.

Turns out, since Nebraska's largest export is corn and corn products, they end up with tons of ethanol byproduct left over. So Super Unleaded, which has more ethanol than regular, is cheaper so they can get rid of it all. Supply and demand.

A lot of that has to do with decades of US government subsidies.

Though soy sensitivity/allergies are a lot more common

Ice cream! And it was not made from soy milk.

well, you did put some orange juice in?? that counts.

*fist bump*

Beeakfast potatoes are great. Roasted potatoes with eggs, ham, cheese, and salsa or taco sauce. Mighty tasty breakfast.

its invasive because it grows fast.

It's not as hard as you think to get rid of. It does take 3 seasons though, so it's a long process...

You basically just have to starve the rhizome and you can do it without chemicals even. You wait until the shoots start developing leaves and cut them all down, then just keep repeating that process. If your lucky the rhizome will start rotting by year 2, but it generally takes 3 years. You need to ensure it spends as much energy as possible shooting and don't let it get any sunlight from leaves.

During Victorian times, poor people in the north of England were healthier than those in the south, because those in the south ate bread and those in the north ate potatoes. Potatoes have vitamin C, wheat doesn't.

It’s moving them, and the various fungi/blights. As you discovered you can’t just grow them in the same soil over and over again without diseases, so managing that can be tricky from a like real estate/topsoil perspective

Or their genitals.

You can make fuel out of potatoes too. It's not as productive as corn per acre (obviously) so it isn't done at scale.

Both corn and potatoes, hybridized by Indigenous Americans in pre-columbian times.

While ethonol is cool u need almost twice as much vs gasoline. The stoich point of gasoline is 14.7 a:f ratio, where ethonol is 9. However u can make a lot of power on corn because when u douse the pistons with that much fuel u are keeping things cooler 😎 but also why some older stuff doesn't like the corn blend gas... Among other issues like attracting moisture.

and unlike pretty much every other food, you let mold grow on it and it gets even tastier (and healthier too, apparently the mold is great for gut microbes)

Lactase Persistence though only is 10% of all the population of the world

I can consume milk no issue. Yes, I’m northern European descendant so it’s what it is.

wut

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