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
Dessert: Fries with icecream
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.
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.
We can thank Quechua scientists for giving us some of the best agricultural technology out there. I don't have links, but its pretty interesting to read about some of the agricultural labs that were built in the andes ages ago to make this delicious monstrosity:
Where is the FUCKING SOIL
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No. Jackfruit is the real superfood. First comes the fruit. Obviously, it is super-sweet, and not stinky like it's sibling fruit they sell in South-East Asia. You want papad? Sweet, salty, get them all. Pickled raw jackfruit? Simply the best. Want to eat something that tastes like potato, but granier? Jackfruit seeds at your service.
You want dosa? Jackfruit with urad dal and dosa rice would like to have a word with you - again, sweet or plain, that's up to you. Are you craving sweet stuff? Steamed jackfruit cakes. Want something more texturey? Coconut flake and jaggery dumpling, with jackfruit as the cover. Want some other alternative sweet dish? Jackfruit custard and kheer exists.
Did I forget something? Ah, yes. Freeze it, and you end up with ice-cream. Jackfruit is also used to make experimental kevlar substitute, and can stop bullets. Vegan leather comes from jackfruit. Jackfruit also secretes natural latex of a certain kind. Just be careful enough, and you could have a makeshift, sweet-tasting condom. Ignore the last one, I just made that up.
i'm happy to see your enthusiasm for jackfruit. i find its nutritional value lacking, especially since in the west it's mostly used as a meat substitute, but has very little protein in it. guess i should give it another try.
Interestingly, the cuisine local to our region is such that the lack of proteins in Jackfruit is supplemented by other veggies, especially lentils, beans and wild mangoes. And obviously, lots of fish (which is not vegan, but they don't need to mind this, the above vegan substitutes will do just fine).
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Sounds really amazing, but can it satiate my Polishnes (alcoholerino)? Oh and does it have a Korean Pop Song?
Thought not B)
Potato gang stay winning
But fr sounds real interesting, I'll read up on it.
It probably does not grow in Poland, as it requires tropical and subtropical climates, but it is truly an amazing exotic fruit. It is the most superior vegan food, after coconut.
And you know what, Jackfruit has wine, because it is truly the most exotic fruit worthy for champagne socialists🍷
And there's a really cool song too. Btw, raw jackfruit has a meaty texture, making it superior to soy substitutes.
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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
nothing bad about potatoes
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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Bean fans in shambles
Compromise: chili baked potato
Not enough soy
Clearly revisionism. Potatoes are what true Stalin chads grow.
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