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I thought vodka was made with potatoes.
Anything containing sugar can be turned into alcohol. Some easier than others.
Sure, but what makes vodka vodka and not, say, brandy or moonshine if not the starting material you're fermenting?
Vodka is pretty much just ethanol. It doesn't have (and isn't supposed to have) any taste or smell.
It can be made with pretty much everything.
Processes. Vodka is just neutral spirits. Think of what makes whisky whisky.
It can be made with either! I think most vodka you get (at least in the US) is made with grain, but there are distillers who specifically make potato vodka, too.
Potatoes are a grain? Actually where do potatoes come from? I know they can come from other potatoes, but of course there must be a grain.
These are the hard questions
Potatoes are a starch.
I don’t want to go on a wikipedia hunt right now, for potato starch, but if you could educate me further, I would appreciate it
Not much to it, The starch is essentially just a type of complex carbohydrate, and potatoes are known to carry them in abundance. So while a potato is still technically a vegetable, it's often referred to as a starch or starchy vegetable because of how much starch it contains.