I keep telling my house mate (who dislikes them) to just Give Peas a Change.
Then I have to duck whatever gets thrown at me… 
(Also: Visualize Whorled Peas…)
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Sorry but Pluto will always be a tuber to me.
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Seems fairly logical to put them with all the other underground grains like … uh …
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Boiling is worse- the (water soluble) vitamin C is extracted and then chucked away.
This study claims that:
the high temperature and short transit time of the frying process cause less loss of heat labile vitamins than other types of cooking. For example, vitamin C concentrations of French fried potatoes are as high as in raw potatoes
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I wish to dispute that, Doc. I’d trust you a hell of a lot more than the people that wish to make my existence illegal. 
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The Supreme Court, having nothing better to do in 1893, declared that a tomato was a vegetable. For customs reasons:
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Welp, I suppose potatoes will be selling out soon after Fox reports that Biden’s War On Idaho is trying to take away our spuds.
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This was my first thought, too. Cue the right-wing supporters gorging themselves on Freedom Fries washed down with big glasses of whole milk. 
They might even start dunking them…
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So frying potatoes is bad?
And so is boiling them?
I’m not sure what to do with this one, even if I could catch and corner the bugger…
I mean, it looks like it could put up a fight, doesn’t it?
Guess what I typed in the search engine to find this pic.
Yep, “Feral Potato”.
I think I’m done for this year.
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I think that varmint used to live in my crawl space! Scared the heck out of me. Went scuttling away when we came at it with the blow torch.
Was a shame about the house burning down, but at least he’s gone.
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Honestly, this is when you need Sigourney on speed-dial.
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As stated before, when it comes to pea-ness, its not the size that counts but how you use it.
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NYT headline:
“Biden and Dems’ “Green New Deal” will take away burgers and fries”
/s
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You say grain; I say vegetable.
No; wait. You spell potatoe; I spell potato.
Ah - stuff it. Let’s call the whole thing “off”.
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With what - sour cream and chives; Brie; bacon and cheddar? So many possibilities!
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I remember a while ago they tried to say potatoes weren’t a vegetable in the very narrow context of school lunches, because the way they were being served wasn’t meeting nutritional guidelines (this was pre-first lady Obama’s awesome improvements on that front) and senators from Maine and Idaho fought it hard.
ETA: also, that stat that the average American consumes 50# of the spuds per year seems wild! Does that take food waste into account?
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I had to search to make sure that wasn’t already a real NYT headline. Ugh.
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The term vegetable isn’t well-defined. It’s all nonsense.
Although I guess the Reagan misadministration did define ketchup as a vegetable so…
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It is, kind of, but it can have huge implications for agricultural industries related to industrial food requirements, including the school lunch programs.
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Bacon is still a vegetable though, right?
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