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Subject: Price of Potatoes From: GUEST,Son of 53 Date: 10 Jan 02 - 12:43 AM We are paying 69cents a pound, US (16oz) for russet potatoes. If our government did not send so many potatoes to Afganistan they would be half the price.
What do you pay, where you are? Does your govt subsidize Afganistan? How many years (three and a half for us) before you can vote the republicans out of office? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: DougR Date: 10 Jan 02 - 12:57 AM Interesting subject, potatoes. Did you know that the diet doctors will tell you one of the worst things you can eat are potatoes? I love them myself. Fried, boiled, baked, whatever. Potatoes are very starchy though, and from what I have read, turn to sugar almost the moment you eat them. Wow! Just think, a quarter pound baked potato might turn into a quarter pound of sugar in your stomach within thirty seconds of consuming it. Of course I have no scientific data to back that up. Good to hear from you though, Guest. DougR |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Jan 02 - 01:00 AM I don't have any republicans IN office... thank gods... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jan 02 - 01:04 AM Yeah, but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Besides, Russets aren't all that good. Try Yukon Gold potatoes - more expensive, but they're tasty little devils. So, how many "price of" threads do we have to put up with? At least three going right now - all started by anonymous posters. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: ddw Date: 10 Jan 02 - 01:09 AM Well, Son of 53, it's a good try, but you just can't touch your ol' dad for inane topics. Potato prices, after all, hold some interest for some people. Also, you're going to have to up your production if you're gonna hold up the family honor. I figure 8 or 10 new threads a day will just about keep pace, but if you're ever gonna best the old man, you're gonna have to go for 12 or 14 and hit a consistancy to really establish your superiority. Just to give you a little boost, you might try threads on how often you clean the lint out of your bellybutton, what you use to get the was out of your ears and whether or not you check the contents of your handkerchief after each use. I don't think he's started anything on those yet. cheers, david |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: ddw Date: 10 Jan 02 - 01:12 AM that should, of course, be WAX out of your ears. ddw |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: Peg Date: 10 Jan 02 - 01:27 AM Doug; Interestingly, that potato info was just on the local news last night (how a baked potato turns to sugar very quickly--the news story was about how carbohydrates eaten in abundance pose health risks). But I wonder if anyone considers that the way we usually eat potatoes (with butter, or sour cream, or roasted or fried with oil) means that the generous helping of fat we consume with them slows the absorption of that sugar into the bloodstream...this is a trick people like me with low blood sugar know from finding ways to keep our sugar level for as long as possible... Potatoes have loads of vitamins and fiber! They are good for you! And they're yummy! Just don't forget the butter...if you have high cholesterol try olive oil. Ghee (clarified butter) is also a good choice (healthier than butter). Margarine...Julia Child won't even speak its name aloud. It's bad for you and tastes horrid.
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: Jon Freeman Date: 10 Jan 02 - 03:22 AM Oddly enough, I asked a farm manager about the value of potatoes (compared to sugar beet) the night before last. IIRC, the answer for potatoes was anything between £40 and £100 per ton. So there you go, I'm not sure how many tons you would have to buy to qualify for those prices but if you bought at the right time, you could get them for under 2p per pound. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: GUEST,P.Mitchell@work Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:27 AM Grow your own, its the only answer. Now, how do I get to send mine to Afghanistan........ |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: Skipjack K8 Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:14 AM A fine instrument, the tuber. This is looking promising; Silly, non music threads about prices, then that nice thread on traditional dance in the north of Norway, and unusually for Mudcat, a serious discussion on the cost of brass instruments. Well done, Guest son. But I think you're codding us, guest. Yoh daddy di'n teach you spail that good. Skipjack |
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Subject: Potatoes and butter!! YUM!!! From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:29 AM On the subject of Margarine... A doctor once put it to me this way... Margarine will give you cancer, and it'll eat you alive from the inside out, and the only way I can help you then is to poison you in hopes of killing it before it or I kill you... Butter just makes ya fat, and getting yer ass up off the sofa and around the block a few times will fix THAT! I've never looked back to margarine since... won't have it in my house... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: Allan C. Date: 10 Jan 02 - 07:48 AM From what little I have been able to gather on the subject: It takes the value of 243,769 average weight potatoes to purchase a lapdance in Iowa. In the UK you can barter a lapdance for a gallon of gasoline. That same gallon of gasoline can take you to where you can purchase a Gibson guitar for the purpose of dissection to see what's in it. What you learn from that experiment will make for lively conversation at the fancy dress party. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: kendall Date: 10 Jan 02 - 08:00 AM If butter makes one look like Julia Child, I'll stick to the margarine. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: Peg Date: 10 Jan 02 - 11:47 AM I eat lots of butter; I don't look like Julia Child. Then again I am not as slim as I used to be either, but I chalk that up to aging and not running five miles every day like I used to. Margarine does not occur in nature. This seems a good guide to avoiding certain foods or only consuming them in moderation...
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Subject: RE: Help: Price of Potatoes From: John Routledge Date: 10 Jan 02 - 01:14 PM "Let them eat cake" Geordie |
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