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posted by [personal profile] the_dala at 06:59pm on 02/03/2007
Question: are you supposed to eat potatoes when they've started sprouting and looking like alien babies? Have they really gone bad, or just ugly and creepy and gross? Vanessa intends to use them for dinner tomorrow, and would not let me talk her out of it.

::grumbles:: This is why you don't buy perishable food in bulk if you don't plan to EAT IT in good time.
Mood:: 'hungry' hungry
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posted by [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com at 12:03am on 03/03/2007
Personally I wouldn't eat anything that looks like an alien baby
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 12:09am on 03/03/2007
Seriously!
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posted by [identity profile] erinya.livejournal.com at 12:05am on 03/03/2007
I wouldn't myself, but I've been told it's okay as long as you cut all the green parts out. Because that's where the poison is. Potatoes: members of the nightshade family. It's a good idea to be careful with them.
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 12:10am on 03/03/2007
Poison? ...I am so not eating whatever she cooks them into.
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posted by [identity profile] erinya.livejournal.com at 12:31am on 03/03/2007
Yeah, green potatoes can fuck you up. Probably wouldn't kill you, but wouldn't make your stomach happy either.

The tomato is also a member of the nightshade family. That's why no one eats tomato leaves.
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posted by [identity profile] trinityday.livejournal.com at 12:05am on 03/03/2007
I think it depends on how sprouted they are. If it's just a bit, I tend to just cut the sprouts off. But then, I eat things I probably shouldn't so I'm not sure you should take me word as law.
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 12:11am on 03/03/2007
They're all sprouted, some of them fairly prodigiously, and definitely wrinkled, shriveled, and kind of squishy. God, and there's a whole bag of them. I'll go out and buy new potatoes tomorrow...
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posted by [identity profile] kahva.livejournal.com at 02:39am on 03/03/2007
Squishy? Nope, don't eat them if they're squishy. If they're squishy, they've started to break down. If they're fairly firm, just cutting the sprouts and such off should be okay. But from what you just said, it sounds like Dr. McCoy would look at them and say, "They're dead, Jim."
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 12:13am on 03/03/2007
They're pretty sprouted. Vanessa can eat them if she likes, but I'm not touching 'em! I have a rotten/expired food phobia; I won't drink or eat anything even a day past its sell by date. And these potatoes are waaay past their prime.
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posted by [identity profile] hannahrorlove.livejournal.com at 12:06am on 03/03/2007
If you plan on cooking them, I wouldn't see much trouble in it, as you're subjecting it to high heat and killing off most potential harmful life-forms on the plant already.
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 12:13am on 03/03/2007
Even if they're POISON?
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posted by [identity profile] hannahrorlove.livejournal.com at 12:17am on 03/03/2007
It's not like you haven't eaten worse - fast food comes to mind.
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posted by [identity profile] cjk1701.livejournal.com at 12:15am on 03/03/2007
Unless they've gone soft and squishy ALL the way instead of slightly wrinkled and soft-ish, it's okay to eat them as long as you cut all the sprouting bits off, along with anything that went bad. And you get green/poisonous bits in brand new potatoes, not old. Where they've been exposed to the sun, etc. Don't worry about them - they might not taste great, but they aren't *bad* bad.
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posted by [identity profile] gryphons-lair.livejournal.com at 01:08am on 03/03/2007
Two seasons ago [livejournal.com profile] fairestcat and I got a ton of potatoes in my CSA share-- I think we had 15 pounds left at the end of the season. And by the time we ate the last of them (sometime in January, IIRC, and our last delivery was in early October) they had sprouts over a foot long and were wrinkly, but not soft all the way through.

I broke the sprouts off and made sure to cut out all the bits of sprout and anything else that looked dicey, just as I would with any potato, and they made perfectly good mashed potateos.

The really poisonous part of the potato is the "apple"-- a little green round thing that grows on the stems after the blossoms fall off. Those are deadly. The potato itself, unless it's rotten, is fairly benign.
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posted by [identity profile] kitsune714.livejournal.com at 01:27am on 03/03/2007
Eep! I'm against eating anything that has started sprouting anything new.
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posted by [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com at 02:03am on 03/03/2007
Potatoes are only bad when they start smelling bad, going really soft, or turning sort of liquid.
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