Also what do you see?
the post below in my feed seems to be relevant to this post somehow
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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
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.
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Oh shit is that potato blight?
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.
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
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.
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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."
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potadon't
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.
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.
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I think I see my parent's divorce in that potato.
ITT: a bunch of people not actually answering the question asked and a load of casual racism about Irish folk.
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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.
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.
I'm jealous of people in polycules, period.
Also, I forgot we're still in the potato post hahaha
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.
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.
Dunno, don’t eat it
I thought it was a blueberry muffin :(
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.
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?
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