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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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I just wish it were nutritionally any good for us.
Corn is:
- Liquid Sugar Replacement (worse than sugar)
- Starch (higher calorie, difficult to digest)
- Cattle Feed (they also can't digest it, leading to gut rott)
- Fuel (can't eat fuel)
But I can down several bags of Frito Lays Cornchips. Honey BBQ Twists are the bomb. If they sold those in family or party size I'd probably have fatty liver disease.
Yep basically no nutritional value besides providing glucose. It’s why people in South America whose diet has been mostly corn and corn based products are super short.
(worse than sugar)
Eh, that's not settled science. It's terribly complex and we don't really know.
There's some research that seems to suggest all sugars are really bad for you, even those from fruits.
I'm any case, any added sugar is for sure bad for you.
Added or not, sugar is bad for you. You can get liver disease by eating fruit.
That said, processed sugar is worse because it is more easily taken up by the body and makes the insuline response worse.
Also, processed food is bad for you on top of sugars.
Snoop’s favorite munchie ^
I wasn't even aware of that.
You can also boil them, mash them or stick them in a stew.
Sorry what are we talking about? Can you say it again, very slowly, and enunciate carefully?
Pro...bate...hoes
Don’t forget making homemade grenade launchers with them.
Wait til you find out about corn
One word: brassica. Ok, two: brassica oleracea
Jesus, I need my eyes checked. And my mind. I did not read it as "corn" at first glance.
I read it as com at first.
Mental keming
Making vodka from potatoes (instead of grain) was so awesome that the woman who did it became the first female university professor in Sweden.
Edit: no it wasn't Martha Stewart you fucking idiot
Tomato
And onions. The trifecta of going in everything.
Garlic?
Potato is not a vegetable.
Strong Principal Skinner meme vibes.
"Am I wrong about potatos?
...no, it's Wikipedia, Britannica, Merriam-Webster, and basically everyone on reddit that's wrong!"
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the definition of vegetable is very vague. anything from a plant can be vegetable.
i personally prefer using words like root, leaves, fruits and nuts, but strawberries put that to the test
Anything from a plant can be a vegetable
Is bread a vegetable because it is made of wheat?
Edit: you can downvote me but you're still incorrect. It isn't vague and potato is objectively not a vegetable. Same goes for grains like wheat, corn, and rice.
Even if i consider potatoes vegetables, i wouldnt consider vodka a vegetable because its made out of potatoes
Tell that to the National Potato Council. Potatoes may take the place of grains in some dishes, but that doesn't make them a grain. Radishes, beets, turnips, and other tubers may also be used as a starchy base for a dish, but I doubt you'd question the legitimacy of them as vegetables
You're also dumb and wrong from the very loose culinary definition btw, potatoes aren't a grain, they fall under the "root VEGETABLE" category along with beets, carrots, onions etc...
Never did I claim that a potato is a grain. Culinarily, I am correct.
So you might be arguing with the wrong person if you want to pull culinary technicalities. When I open my copy of Escoffier Le Guide Culinaire to page 498 I find Potatoes listed in the vegetables section 
But wait, let me check my copy of Jaques Pepins Complete Techniques 
ah, okay, on page 323 he describes potatoes as "a versatile vegetable".
Maybe The Joy of Cooking? Ah, here, on page 245, under vegetables, and a root vegetable puree recipe featuring potatoes. Fascinating...
I'm afraid I don't have a copy of the CIA textbook currently though I'm fixing that soon, and my Japanese cooking technique textbooks don't specifically categorize potatoes. Want me to get back to you when I can borrow a copy of Modernist Cuisine from my chef friend?
Mf busted out the hard copy sources from the culinary greats. I'm dead, lol.
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I am curious what your define it as, because you've ruled out vegetable and grain.
It is a starch
"Starch" isn't a plant categorization at all, stupid. In fact, pretty much any source you can find will tell you potatoes are classified as a vegetable, and while most veggies are lower in starch, a great many are considered starchy vegetables, Including peas. A vegetable having starch in it doesn't make it a starch. That's like calling Cabbage a fiber instead of a vegetable, because it has a bunch in it.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegetable
a usually herbaceous plant (such as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal
Just curious, what would you define as a vegetable?
Culinarily, you can define vegetables using the basic food groups. Grains and starches are a distinct group and not part of the vegetable food group, despite the fact that they come from plants. It is easy to see that not all food that is plant-based is, culinarily, a "vegetable" when you consider things like fruits and nuts, which people have no trouble distinguishing from vegetables.
And yes, many things we culinarily consider vegetables actually fall under the scientific definition of fruit, and some "fruits" do not fall under that definition.
Starches are just something a vegetable has, though, not something they are. Like protein and fiber.
If you exclude anything with starch from being vegetables, you're also excluding beans, squash, lentils, carrots, peas, parsnips, corn, etc.
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Christopher Reeves
Doesn't work as well after they're dead.
Of course it's a fruit, the apple of earth
Cassava/manioc/yuca: I'm you, but better.
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