Also what do you see?
Oh shit is that potato blight?
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Are we using the Quayle spelling now?
Upvote because I’m old enough to remember.
(Riffling through my Rolodex of ancient webcomics.)
Ah, here we are:
Oh my bad! Apparently, i don't know how to spell potatö
What screws it up is the e appears in the plural, potatoes.
Should serve quail with a potato but call it "Quayle & Potatoe" on the menu. For a vegetarian option, swap the fowl meat for some kale.
Quayle and Potatoe sounds like a phony Irish pub in San Bernardino.
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German psychiatrist voice
"It appears to be threatened by self actualization and fixated on its dysfunctional relationship with its Father."
Don't forget wanting to shag its mother.
Freudian slip: where you mean one thing but say your mother instead.
Sorry. I meant your mother of course.
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I think this is Black heart
Thats a really interesting site, had no idea there was such depth to potato grading
yeah we used to have a government
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My Irish half just shuddered.
My favourite great hunger joke:
How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
None.
No potatoes doesn't kill an Irishman, but Queen Victoria endorsing Charles Trevelyan's laisse-faire policies of "continuing food exports and limiting aid to fellow subjects because depopulating Ireland was God's will" did.
Well they will never learn anything if you give them handouts after their crop failures, what not with us shipping all their other food they grow elsewhere. /s
It's amazing the language used, is exactly like the heartless politicians now taking away food stamps and medicaid and the like.
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There is two things going on there.
First if you look closely you can see holes in the spud. This is insect damage, likely caused by a wireworm (larval form of a clickbeetle species.)
Second is a physiological damage in storage/shipping causing the black color. This is not blight or another fungus, but the tubers reaction to suboptimal storage condition (not enough O2).
I misread that as "psychological damage". Poor potato.
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It looks like you may have thought the potato was locked in there with you but actually you might be locked in there with the potato.
the post below in my feed seems to be relevant to this post somehow
potadon't
I think I see my parent's divorce in that potato.
It's starches are being broken down and used in glycolysis before you had a chance to. The bastards stole it from you. Burn them.
First, I don't know. Second, I see a well postured poodle in side profile. Mirrored in the other potato too.
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I thought it was a blueberry muffin :(
First of all there's no e in potato (singular). Second, it's probably either a weird mutant or going bad. I wouldn't eat it, either way.
It's just the dark meat.
Dunno, don’t eat it
I tried to look it up, and apparently there is something called "black heart"
Apparently it’s something to do with how the potato has been stored. Something about a lack of oxygen, but I don’t know anything other than the few searches I found.
a science paper about blackheart
black heart and internal heat necrosis
There probably are other and better sites out there about this topic, but I think it is possible it could be black heart even though the pattern in yours looks unusual, but honestly, what do I know? XD
First off: Potatoes are cheap and abundant. There's literally zero need for any risk.
Secondly: I have no idea, I just wanted to point out that any weirdness with potatoes is not worth it.
Thirdly: I do know, however, that green potatoes is poison and bulging cans is no bueno.
Room mate searched it, it looks like internal bruising? Pretty severe, but yeah. Lack of oxygen, or freezing. Idk that I'd eat it myself, but it's allegedly safe. Allegedly.
Goth phase
The potato is an exploration of pain and rage, it's really quite playful and comedic too
ITT: a bunch of people not actually answering the question asked and a load of casual racism about Irish folk.
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