Also what do you see?
the post below in my feed seems to be relevant to this post somehow
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
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).
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.
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
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.
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!
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?
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.
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…
The actual blight/parasite that caused the potato famine from what I’ve seen looked a lot different, it was more like the whole thing would be rotted out and slimey on the inside due to worms chewing around in there.
Although I may be mixing up several different potato famines.
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.
potadon’t
I think I see my parent’s divorce in that potato.
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
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.
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.
