No I don't think so, that turns the entire potato black, and it gets rotten along with it, this looks like it's still got it's integrity other than some black shit colonizing it. Potato blight they harvested all right then a couple of days later would turn black. So you do all the work, think you are finally set, then fucked.
I love stuff like this. It turns out there's whole hidden worlds inside all sorts of people's average workdays and a lot of the time if you ask they'll just tell you!
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.
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).
Oh that makes sense. I wanted to bake them in the oven but most of them had this kind of pattern. They weren't smelly or anything and had a normal consistency.
Is this blight? I know the famine the harvest looked good until a day or so after they are harvested they would turn black, and then rotten. Potatoes really get rotten fast too if they are frozen and thawed or something. But I thought the blight was more the entire potato going bad.
'... of The Famine began quite mysteriously in September 1845 as leaves on potato plants suddenly turned black and curled, then rotted, seemingly the result of a fog that had wafted across the fields of Ireland. The cause was actually an airborne fungus (phytophthora infestans) originally transported in the holds of ships traveling from North America to England.
Winds from southern England carried the fungus to the countryside around Dublin. The blight spread throughout the fields as fungal spores settled on the leaves of healthy potato plants, multiplied and were carried in the millions by cool breezes to surrounding plants. Under ideal moist conditions, a single infected potato plant could infect thousands more in just a few days.
The attacked plants fermented while providing the nourishment the fungus needed to live, emitting a nauseous stench as they blackened and withered in front of the disbelieving eyes of Irish peasants. There had been crop failures in the past due to weather and other diseases, but this strange new failure was unlike anything ever seen.** Potatoes dug out of the ground at first looked edible, but shriveled and rotted within days. The potatoes had been attacked by the same fungus that had destroyed the plant leaves above ground.**
By October 1845, news of the blight had reached London. British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, quickly established a Scientific Commission to examine the problem. After briefly studying the situation, the Commission issued a gloomy report that over half of Ireland's potato crop might perish due to 'wet rot.' ...'
Also, I thought I saw an article a few months ago that was talking about science on the horizon about potentially no-mother babies in the future. So maybe we could eventually have two-mother or even multiple mothers.
And there's also polyamorous parents that co-raise kids. So if it's a closed polycule with like 5 people, one child could have, potentially, at least 5 moms, even today.
Obviously, we're talking about biological mothers vs emotional/practical/role mothers. But, even then, divorce exists. But if you want to just talk about bio moms, besides promising science (some that I didn't even mention), there's probably ways that some contextually specific intersex people could procreate, resulting in two biological mothers, even today. Or like one of those people who is two people genetically.
Or like one of those people who is two people genetically.
Chimeras are fascinating.
You're absolutely right, too. A member of my polycule is in a triad that co-parents a child. The little girl has two moms and a dad, and that is the only life she's ever known. I'd be jealous of their situation if they weren't living in Florida.
What doesn’t kill you, will probably maim you for life. Although there is a slim chance it will make you stronger, but don’t count on it. Most likely, several internal organs will wither, and you’ll get very familiar with kidney dialysis treatment.
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.
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.
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
i see two praying mantises having a bubble gum blowing competition and the one on the left is trying to impersonate no doubt, not the singer but the whole band, the one on the right is trying to impersonate the daughter from the television show with steve urkel that steve wasn't trying to date, you know the one that had the attitude? and she is talking into the telephone and telling the telephone that it is not time for tea while blowing a bubble the size of her head. what do you see?
I didn't expect to start my day with a potato-rorschach test.
Somebody else already said they see poodles, and now I can't unsee it. So in order to answer your question more organically, I decided to flip the image upside down and try again.
::: spoiler So, what I see is,
on the left side, a chef carrying a dish under one of those dome lids. On the right side, I see a Disney-esque cartoon character with frizzy pigtails (like the main character from the kids' Youtube channel, Gracie's Corner), in a puffy dress, either leaning toward the chef or blowing a kiss toward them.
:::
Oh shit is that potato blight?
Yup
The photos I'm seeing online look way worse than this one.
No I don't think so, that turns the entire potato black, and it gets rotten along with it, this looks like it's still got it's integrity other than some black shit colonizing it. Potato blight they harvested all right then a couple of days later would turn black. So you do all the work, think you are finally set, then fucked.
Is choclate :3
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.
Foule meate
Quayle and Potatoe sounds like a phony Irish pub in San Bernardino.
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.
What does the potato look like to you?
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
I love stuff like this. It turns out there's whole hidden worlds inside all sorts of people's average workdays and a lot of the time if you ask they'll just tell you!
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.
Now tell one about Gaza
How many Palestinians does Israel need to "defend" itself?
My Irish everything instinctively shivered.
Even your timbers?
Especially me timbers.....
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).
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/333609
I misread that as "psychological damage". Poor potato.
Oh that makes sense. I wanted to bake them in the oven but most of them had this kind of pattern. They weren't smelly or anything and had a normal consistency.
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.
That's how you got Irish Americans
Is this blight? I know the famine the harvest looked good until a day or so after they are harvested they would turn black, and then rotten. Potatoes really get rotten fast too if they are frozen and thawed or something. But I thought the blight was more the entire potato going bad.
Blighted potatoes look like this:
The leaves of the potatoes would look fine, but the actual potato thing would be rotten under the ground.
Ah interesting thanks my understanding is actually limited to my recollection of https://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/begins.htm
'... of The Famine began quite mysteriously in September 1845 as leaves on potato plants suddenly turned black and curled, then rotted, seemingly the result of a fog that had wafted across the fields of Ireland. The cause was actually an airborne fungus (phytophthora infestans) originally transported in the holds of ships traveling from North America to England.
Winds from southern England carried the fungus to the countryside around Dublin. The blight spread throughout the fields as fungal spores settled on the leaves of healthy potato plants, multiplied and were carried in the millions by cool breezes to surrounding plants. Under ideal moist conditions, a single infected potato plant could infect thousands more in just a few days.
The attacked plants fermented while providing the nourishment the fungus needed to live, emitting a nauseous stench as they blackened and withered in front of the disbelieving eyes of Irish peasants. There had been crop failures in the past due to weather and other diseases, but this strange new failure was unlike anything ever seen.** Potatoes dug out of the ground at first looked edible, but shriveled and rotted within days. The potatoes had been attacked by the same fungus that had destroyed the plant leaves above ground.**
By October 1845, news of the blight had reached London. British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, quickly established a Scientific Commission to examine the problem. After briefly studying the situation, the Commission issued a gloomy report that over half of Ireland's potato crop might perish due to 'wet rot.' ...'
This may be the only genocide in history where it's socially accepted to make fun of the victims.
I didn't make fun of them though.
I got shamrock shakes now.
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 cartoon poodle in a sit position, side profile. Mirrored in the other potato too.
Based take
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.
Dunno, don’t eat it
Careful, that's how you summon the ghost of old Jacob Marley.
Huh,I hear the rattling noise of iron chains... must be the wind.
It's just the dark meat.
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.
Your mom's bulging cans are pretty bueno.
Is OPs mom single?
Well I can’t imagine how they could have more than one.
A girl I dated years ago had three.
Also, I thought I saw an article a few months ago that was talking about science on the horizon about potentially no-mother babies in the future. So maybe we could eventually have two-mother or even multiple mothers.
And there's also polyamorous parents that co-raise kids. So if it's a closed polycule with like 5 people, one child could have, potentially, at least 5 moms, even today.
Obviously, we're talking about biological mothers vs emotional/practical/role mothers. But, even then, divorce exists. But if you want to just talk about bio moms, besides promising science (some that I didn't even mention), there's probably ways that some contextually specific intersex people could procreate, resulting in two biological mothers, even today. Or like one of those people who is two people genetically.
Basically, imagine harder.
Chimeras are fascinating.
You're absolutely right, too. A member of my polycule is in a triad that co-parents a child. The little girl has two moms and a dad, and that is the only life she's ever known. I'd be jealous of their situation if they weren't living in Florida.
I'm jealous of people in polycules, period.
Also, I forgot we're still in the potato post hahaha
Goth phase
The potato is an exploration of pain and rage, it's really quite playful and comedic too
I think the Irish just collectively fainted at this picture.
Peruvians as well
Just cut around it and you can still eat it. Toughens you up.
What doesn’t kill you, will probably maim you for life. Although there is a slim chance it will make you stronger, but don’t count on it. Most likely, several internal organs will wither, and you’ll get very familiar with kidney dialysis treatment.
*wither
"whither" is also a word but it's an old, mostly dead, one that means "to what place"
Good catch! Fixed it now. I already knew I swipe too fast. Should spend more time reading before posting. 😆
1 min old comment and still underrated
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.
ITT: a bunch of people not actually answering the question asked and a load of casual racism about Irish folk.
Talking about potato blight is racist?
No, saying things like "My Irish everything instinctively shivered." is.
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
Nightshade doing nightshade things.
i see two praying mantises having a bubble gum blowing competition and the one on the left is trying to impersonate no doubt, not the singer but the whole band, the one on the right is trying to impersonate the daughter from the television show with steve urkel that steve wasn't trying to date, you know the one that had the attitude? and she is talking into the telephone and telling the telephone that it is not time for tea while blowing a bubble the size of her head. what do you see?
I didn't expect to start my day with a potato-rorschach test.
Somebody else already said they see poodles, and now I can't unsee it. So in order to answer your question more organically, I decided to flip the image upside down and try again.
::: spoiler So, what I see is, on the left side, a chef carrying a dish under one of those dome lids. On the right side, I see a Disney-esque cartoon character with frizzy pigtails (like the main character from the kids' Youtube channel, Gracie's Corner), in a puffy dress, either leaning toward the chef or blowing a kiss toward them. :::
This is a fun game. What does everyone else see?
Surprise Rohrschach Test! oh... I see you made that joke already :(
Two Seahorses
Potat undergoing Stracciatellarization
Fake: it's AI
ADHD: oh its a painting
That does it! I'm not gonna eat some nasty AI.