classic33
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He'd need another freezer.
Potatoes in fridge
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Time Waster
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The original potatoes were highly toxic and the people from the areas the wild tubers grew bred them to get the safe potatoes we eat now. Despite that their descendants around now in some areas still eat tubers from plants close to the wild original plants showing how their ancestors made them safe.
It involves taking them high up into the mountains where the winter cold helps break down the toxins. Interesting process and inventive. It's like the way hunter gatherers in the prehistoric British Isles are believed to process foods to remove toxins by heating and steeping processes, like acorns. How did they work out how to make toxic things edible through such convoluted processes?
It involves taking them high up into the mountains where the winter cold helps break down the toxins. Interesting process and inventive. It's like the way hunter gatherers in the prehistoric British Isles are believed to process foods to remove toxins by heating and steeping processes, like acorns. How did they work out how to make toxic things edible through such convoluted processes?
bitsandbobs
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Loving the source for those numbers!
Poacher
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Trial and error?
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
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Trial and error?
Exactly!
In the jungles of Guyana, they eat cassava bread made from the toxic cassava/tapioca tuber by grinding soaking and sieving over a long period of time before drying and eating. Somebody somewhere figured how to do it one day without dying....
