Update your NUTRITION knowledge idiot! The potato plant is a vegetable but what you eat is the root. It's a starch like rice and wheat. We are talking food sciences not biology. Feel sorry for you, and all those fat people who trusted USDA and their fat parents. No wonder America is the fattest on earth.
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Update your NUTRITION knowledge idiot! The potato plant is a vegetable but what you eat is the root. It's a starch like rice and wheat. We are talking food sciences not biology. Feel sorry for you, and all those fat people who trusted USDA and their fat parents. No wonder America is the fattest on earth.
Am i imagining things, or was'nt the celeriac the default "potato" type vegetable in europe, prior to the spud?
It was my understanding, the spud was adopted with vigour on it's introduction, due to the fact it had more calorific value, and kept factory workers (you know what that means, dickensian style) going longer.
Ie, fed the masses for cheap, so they could stay alive and do more work for the d'man.
If spuds had'nt been around, what kind of famine might the irish have had??
It was my understanding, the spud was adopted with vigour on it's introduction, due to the fact it had more calorific value, and kept factory workers (you know what that means, dickensian style) going longer.
Ie, fed the masses for cheap, so they could stay alive and do more work for the d'man.
If spuds had'nt been around, what kind of famine might the irish have had??
OK let me get this straight. You call anybody that thinks a potato is a vegetable "dumb". Then in the above post you admit the potato is a vegetable. So, your dumb
Read the below link but sit down first before you get hurt dimwit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_vegetable
Oh and dont feel sorry for me. I love potatoes! mmmmmmm....
neophyte321
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Game-Set-Match.
We would have also accepted, "How Can Obseity be Half the Cause for fat Americans, Nimrod!!!! That's the equivalent of saying Height is half the cause of Tallness!"
Could you super-size that salad for me?
j/k
In old Latin: Obesity = Obesus = overeat
What I actually meant is overeat is only half the cause for being fat; what you eat is the other half.
Yeah, meat & potatos, keep the American traditions going! Burger & Fries, Fish & Chips, Peperoni Pizza, Speghetti Meatball, Hot Dog & Chili ... enjoy the favorite meals of obese America. Skip the green fibers. Blame your genes for being so fat.
You sure that it's not spelled potatoe?
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Yeah, meat & potatos, keep the American traditions going! Burger & Fries, Fish & Chips, Peperoni Pizza, Speghetti Meatball, Hot Dog & Chili ... enjoy the favorite meals of obese America. Skip the green fibers. Blame your genes for being so fat.
I eat that shit and I could still kick your ass on a track, tennis court, boxing ring, and I bet I have a smaller waistline then you. Wow, that must be really embarassing for you to eat all those green fibers and still not have anything to show for it. How depressing.
