dannyboy602
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I thought it was a lichen.
bet you can't identify this
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halfbubbleoff
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lichen? I love en!
Sir Napsalot
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blue potato chips:
the potatoes themselves are turned blue by exposing them to air in the last 2 weeks of growth, which makes them slightly poisonous, producing effects of euphoria and excitability
the potatoes themselves are turned blue by exposing them to air in the last 2 weeks of growth, which makes them slightly poisonous, producing effects of euphoria and excitability
dannyboy602
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Sounds a lot like moi...poisonous, euphoric and easily excited...lol
cannabineer
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Singlemalt
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Hardly. Blue due to anthocyanins and flavonoids, actually are more nutritious than regular white potato. Besides, they would not grow under anaerobic conditions. You are thinking of light exposure to the potato tuber which produces the glycoalkaloid toxin alpha-solanine
Sir Napsalot
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You were right at "hardly." My post is a complete fabrication, written simply for amusement.
I tip my hat to you on your knowledge of potatoes, though
halfbubbleoff
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I am neither. I am a small time grower who reads TNT religiously. As I approach retirement, two more years, I hope to become a more active member here. For now, I read, enjoy, and sometimes work up the courage to post.
BarnBuster
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This is the green on the potato (and possibly/probably chlorophyll), no? Every time I saw green when I was peeling them, I was extra vigorous to make sure i removed it. And this, thinking back, the reason was cause Mom said always peel that off. I always thought it was toxic, but just now reading about it, you would have to consume huge amounts of the green to have a problem. I guess I've been tater taught thanks to you, Malt
Singlemalt
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Pretty much Barn. I can taste it though and it's an off taste I don't like. However if you bake them it dissipates, no off taste. But it stays if boiled or cooked in stews. It will also go away if you put them in the dark for a few days. I just stick a new bag in the dark for awhile when I buy them. They have bags of taters in the light at grocery story and the top bags always have some green.This is the green on the potato (and possibly/probably chlorophyll), no? Every time I saw green when I was peeling them, I was extra vigorous to make sure i removed it. And this, thinking back, the reason was cause Mom said always peel that off. I always thought it was toxic, but just now reading about it, you would have to consume huge amounts of the green to have a problem. I guess I've been tater taught thanks to you, Malt
cannabineer
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"tater taught"This is the green on the potato (and possibly/probably chlorophyll), no? Every time I saw green when I was peeling them, I was extra vigorous to make sure i removed it. And this, thinking back, the reason was cause Mom said always peel that off. I always thought it was toxic, but just now reading about it, you would have to consume huge amounts of the green to have a problem. I guess I've been tater taught thanks to you, Malt
BarnBuster
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reminded me of the amazing (and sadly deminishing) ability of Inuit to accurately land navigate based on subtle differences in a flat environment without apparent landmarks. I mean, I'm not bad with map and compass but, jeez. couple of articles i just refreshed myself with
"In November of 2000 I was traveling with a hunter while he searched and found seven fox traps hidden under a thick layer of snow that his uncle had set across twenty square kilometres of what seemed to me a flat and indistinctive territory. The traps had been set 25 years before and he (the hunter I traveled with) had not seen them since then. Yet, he was able to find each of them in about two hours of searching".
http://www.sensorystudies.org/inuit-orienting-traveling-along-familiar-horizons/
"Often the land rolls on, mile after mile, toward a distant horizon where oftentimes the sky is indistinguishable from the snow-covered land. There is no perspective. Navigation is not easy. But for the traditional Inuit hunter, there are clues. Among the most important, any seasoned traveller in the North will tell you, are sastrugi, small ridges of hard snow running parallel to the almost ceaseless prevailing winds. So consistent are these ridges that, in whiteout conditions, when unable to see more than a few metres, maintaining the relative alignment of the sastrugi to the line of travel is one of the few resources left to a hunter travelling by either dog-team or snowmobile"
http://www.davidpelly.com/Lost - Never.pdf
cannabineer
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I don't think I've seen the word "sastrugi" for forty-five years. (I think I read it in the account of Scott's Antarctic expedition that our fifth grade was reading). I was just now inspired to look up where the word came from. I was betting it had Italian roots. But the truth is different and stranger. The word came to us from the Russian via German. The Russian connection is revealed by the singular "sastruga".
From dictionary.com:
1830-40; < German < dialectal Russian zastrúga, noun derivative of zastrugátʾ, zastrogátʾ to plane, shave down (wood), equivalent to za- perfective v. prefix + strugátʾ, strogátʾ to plane, smooth (wood)
From dictionary.com:
1830-40; < German < dialectal Russian zastrúga, noun derivative of zastrugátʾ, zastrogátʾ to plane, shave down (wood), equivalent to za- perfective v. prefix + strugátʾ, strogátʾ to plane, smooth (wood)
tyler.durden
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Bet you can't identify this -
It's a Penispillar, or Caterpenis depending on where you're from...
After molting, the Penispillar transforms into a beautiful Penisfly (or Buttercock - archaic). These creatures have not yet been caught on film, but the people lucky enough to experience one usually have them tattooed on their bodies to capture its majesty...
buzzardbreath
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I thought the Caterpenis morphed into this pretty petBet you can't identify this -
It's a Penispillar, or Caterpenis depending on where you're from...
tyler.durden
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Yikes! No way. The penisfly is a beautiful, gentle creature. It generally likes to find random cracks and crevices to crawl into, out of, and back into again repeatedly. Often for hours at a time. Scientists are not sure of the reason for this behavior...