You can't deny it. You can even make vodka out of it!
Discuss what is the best singular staple food.
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There's a potato for every occasion. Breakfast? Hash browns. Lunch? Fries. Dinner? Baked potato. Having a party? Potato chips. Wife divorced you and took the kids? Vodka.
Truly the most versatile tuber.
Breakfast: home fries
Lunch: latka, potato soup, chips
Dinner: mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, salt potatoes
Divoreced: even more vodka
Truly the utilitarian spud
scalloped potatoes,
God I fucking love that shit
I wish I could figure out how to make it savory enough, bad scalloped potatoes are undercooked, watery, and flavorless, and I desire to avoid this
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This is Bean country 
What...? I'm sorry this is Poland.
Peru to Eastern Europe: "ah you think the potato is your friend, but you merely adopted it. I was born to it, molded by it, I did not see cereals till I was colonized and by then it only made me gassy!"
Hermano, you must be out of the loop.
Back in the 1930s the Soviets managed to invent the in vitro fertilization and out-of-body human fetus development method by implanting the egg inside of a potato.
The resulting children born from these were named The Belarussians.
Can you make alc out of beans?
You'd need a way to convert the starches into sugars first.
I found a few forum threads where someone got as far as realizing that, declared maybe they'll try, and never came back. But no mentions of completed bean beers.
Nutritious, easy to grow, versatile as an ingredient, they truly are the greatest single food.
Have nothing to add
I see no bias what so ever.
If anything, they have less bias because they know the subject matter so well.
Shelf life is worse than grain.
Yea but when they go bad they turn into more germinated potatoes.
Comprehensive list of GOAT agricultural products:
- potatoes
- corn
- cabbage
- soybeans
Once a species gets these it's game over for everybody else. Honestly OP and should be nerfed.
Wheat might get on this list too.
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If I was stuck on an island and I had one crop to choose it'd either be sweet potato or amaranth. Probably amaranth if I'm being honest because under the right conditions it will spread like wildfire and you get (pseudo)grains out of it along with spinach-except-better, but amaranth is not as well known in the west these days. At some points in human history there's archaeological evidence that amaranth family crops were of major importance though.
But sweet potato is right up there too. It also spreads like a weed and requires virtually no intervention under the right conditions. Shit, you can even try drowning sweet potato and it'll be like "Alright, bet" and it'll continue to grow. Tuber+greens is a winning combination.
Hmmm. This should've went to badposting
Ah fuck it
Reject monocropping, return to Mayan mountain terrace farming with a different potato species on every level for 800 vertical feet
There isn't many things more amazing than new potatoes in early summer. Unpeeled, with butter and salt. Maybe some spring onion or garlic on top.
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Not enough soy
Bean fans in shambles
Compromise: chili baked potato
Clearly revisionism. Potatoes are what true Stalin chads grow.
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