- Potato - root vegetable Tomato - fruit Knowledge is knowing a Tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad, and philosophy is wondering if ketchup is a smoothie.
- Perhaps still angry over the failed (and French-backed!) Irish Rebellion of 1798, the British Crown let an entire nation starve in the Irish Potato Famine. The Irish never forgot that. In the wake of World War I, the Irish Republican Army was born. The conflict kicked off in earnest with the Easter Rising of 1916, in which 485 people were killed.
Welcome to another episode of Relics of the Dark Age. Today Jay thought it would be fun to take a trip back to the 2nd edition of 40k. In this video we're going to specifically take a look at The.
The seed potatoes that we were waiting on arrived the other day, and within 48 hours we had them in the garden. In total, we planted 9 varieties and we’ll buy 1 more type at the supply store soon to make 10.
We tried to keep the number of plants relatively even, so that we can compare yields among varieties, in addition to flavor, store-ability, and disease resistance. We did this by cutting larger seed potato pieces into smaller pieces, but making sure that each piece still had at least 1 nice eye to grow from. Seed pieces the size of an egg, a chicken egg that is, we planted whole. We ended up planting 176 seed potato pieces, which in a perfect word would make 176 plants. We’ll see….
Most of the varieties we planted are either rare heirloom potato varieties, or delicious gourmet varieties. Here’s a brief rundown on what went in the ground.
Of the early potatoes, we planted Early Ohio, an heirloom from Vermont grown since 1871 with a nutty flavor, and Cobbler, another heirloom from the 1800’s that is said to have been discovered by an Irish shoe maker.
We planted a few mid-season varieties, including Carola, a German potato with a creamy yellow flesh, Kennebec, a popular and high yielding variety grown all over the country, and Purple Majesty, a beautiful purple skinned and fleshed variety high in anthocyanins, an antioxidant found in blueberries, currants, and aronia.
Purple Majesty seed potatoes. Check out that color!
The late season varieties were Bintje, a Dutch potato from 1910, German Butterball, a delicious yellow fleshed gourmet type, Katahdin, a high yielding and long keeping variety from 1932, and Red Pontiac, the red potato we grew last year that knocked our socks off and made us potato snobs.
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We also planted a fingerling variety named Ozette. This potato has the best backstory of all the potatoes we planted this year. The Ozette potato, unlike every other potato grown in the US came directly from South America by Spanish Explorers in 1791. They brought it with them form the Andes, and it was planted in a small garden outside of a fort in the Pacific Northwest. When the Spaniards abandoned the fort, the Native Makah people found the Ozette Fingerling potato, and have planted, and relied on it as part of their diet every year since.
Ozette seed potatoes. This Andean heirloom has a story behind it that matches it’s amazing flavor.
All other potatoes were first taken to Europe, where the Irish, Prussians, and the rest of the Continent developed new varieties, and then brought these varieties to North America when they immigrated centuries later. The Ozette potato is said to be one of the tastiest potatoes around, and having tasted more than a few Peruvian potatoes myself, I can’t wait.
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| Tango01 | 12 Oct 2020 8:11 p.m. PST |
'A piece that ran in Eater yesterday jogged a memory from the bottom reaches of my brain and sent it floating up through the layers of my subconscious: I am about eight years old or thereabouts. I am in a Wendy's. This was the era when Wendy's embraced an old-timey aesthetic and the tables were covered in what looked like a collage of old newspapers. In the back of the Wendy's, there is a buffet table that looks like a salad bar. But it's not just saladwhich, at that time, I never would have eaten. There are baked potatoes! With vats of bright orange gooey cheese! And bacon bits! And there is chocolate pudding, as much of it as an eight-year-old can jam down her gullet as soon as she's finished with her potato. I remember it vividly now. Oh, those were good times! The Eater piece, by MM Carrigan (who also happens to be the editor of The Taco Bell Quarterly), explores the history of fast food buffets, including the Wendy's Superbar. The Wendy's Superbar, as it happens, is the most thoroughly documented of all the fast food buffets. (It lasted for a decade and also included pasta and nachos.) But Carrigan is more interested rumors of other buffets, particularly those at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC, and the most legendary of all: the McDonald's Breakfast Buffet. Carrigan finds a few people who claim to have memories of this great innovation in fast food, but their recollections are hazy. (We're talking buffets in American locations here, not Asian extravaganzas.)…'
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| nsolomon99 | 12 Oct 2020 10:10 p.m. PST |
COVID-19 has killed this stone dead. | |
| Thresher01 | 13 Oct 2020 12:08 a.m. PST |
Hmmm, never remember buffets from most of those places, other than Pizza Hut, way back in the day. Roundtable Pizza had them (pizza and salad bar), up until the recent 'troubles', and Long John Silver's had an 'All You Can Eat' option on Sundays too, but just for their fish. | |
| RudyNelson | 13 Oct 2020 9:10 a.m. PST |
Yes the best deals in our town was the Chinese buffet at $7.99 USD. Now you can only get one maybe two items for $10. USD | |
| Legion 4 | 13 Oct 2020 9:21 a.m. PST |
Yeah this is one of the most insidious affects of COVID … Hurting buffets and dinning in overall. | |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 13 Oct 2020 10:18 a.m. PST |
Used to love the Wendy's buffet, you could make your own tacos. | |
| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2020 11:35 a.m. PST |
| Dagwood | 13 Oct 2020 1:02 p.m. PST |
A salad bar was still available in Scotland a few weeks ago. Coronavirus meant that you were served by a staff member, rather than helping yourself. Pizza Hut ? | |
| Bashytubits | 13 Oct 2020 1:25 p.m. PST |
You know nothing of the golden age of buffets Tango, I grew up in Las Vegas and when the mob ran the casinos buffets were something else, cheap and every kind of good food imaginable. It's a miracle more people did not simply explode from too much good stuff. In those days even the motels had buffets. | |
| Thresher01 | 13 Oct 2020 2:25 p.m. PST |
Wendy's tacos??? Shudder with fear. I certainly hope they were better than those Burger King ones, which I can honestly say, ARE the WORST tacos I've ever had. Had to try one just to see if the reviews of them were correct, and they were. I should have heeded their warnings. I really don't see why the buffets have to die though, once they permit dining inside again, since people should just be able to walk back up to the counter again to order seconds. I miss the Chinese buffet we used to go to at the Tyson's Corner Mall back in the day, 50 years or so ago. It was quite good. | |
| Dn Jackson | 13 Oct 2020 10:45 p.m. PST |
One of our Chinese buffets has reopened. You have to wear a mask and plastic gloves when you get your food, but that's all that's changed. | |
| Thresher01 | 14 Oct 2020 12:54 a.m. PST |
What I worry about more than the people are the staff not cleaning the tables, and/or adequately washing the dishes, glasses, and utensils. All of that was scary enough before the virus, and now it really bears being cautious about. | |
| Tango01 | 14 Oct 2020 11:39 a.m. PST |
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