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6 pounds? I'm skeptical that anyone can sit down and eat 6 pounds of potatoes. You should probably check your arithmetic here. And no, you're not going to prod
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
6 pounds? I'm skeptical that anyone can sit down and eat 6 pounds of potatoes. You should probably check your arithmetic here.
And no, you're not going to produce enough potatoes in a "local garden" to feed our cities, much less all of the people in the rest of the world who are fed by our croplands.
- notreallyserio 5y agoI'm picturing a 5 pound bag of potatoes one might find at a grocery store. I think it might be larger than my torso.
- alar44 5y agoI checked the math, they are correct.
- _0w8t 5y agoFor one serving sure it is not trivial to eat that, but spread it over 3 meals and it is very OK My grandmother told me that during WWII in Belarus many people in villages for 3 years eat pretty much only potatoes plus few berries/mushrooms and little fish. It was pointless to keep any animals as those would be taken either by Germans, local police folks or partisans. And all potatoes were grown with pure manual labor as the were no horses and petrol for any kind of machinery was simply not available. Despite such diet people were not malnourished or underweight and even sold potato to get money for other stuff.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoA rural village in Belarus in WWII (with available fields) is an entirely different thing from a city of 25 million in 2021 China. And nearly a kg of potatoes at a meal? While that might be possible, I'm not sure I could manage it. Also, I've noticed that the stories of the hardships that one's grandparents faced do not become less impressive as the years go by. :-)