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Nov 26 4:00 PM EST

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To: Gord Bolton who wrote (82699)	3/1/2002 8:30:27 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (2) of 116770

Gordon quotes:During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes. Your post reminds me of reading about using potatoes in campfire gold refining...not just any potato but a certain color potato according to this one guy I ran across: members.aol.com (caveat: he does indicate a certain willingness to provide directions to doing so for a modern sourdough who was never taught about this archane delicacy.) According to his dating of what he calls #27, it is 1849er potato technology instead of a Klondike miracle food that really got the gold mining world's attention regarding this lowly tuber. Note: this is pre-Reynolds Wrap era science... Watch aflaakkkakk peel me a new one on this piece of "totally tubular tuberity" Afterall, this tater talk definitely qualifies as one of the earliest gold "spud" conspiracies I'm aware of in the Klondike era... The nerve of them...claiming taters are need to cure/prevent scurvy, when everyone reeeEEEEEEally knows that goldrush to alaska bunch were simply more refined aka savvy than that...

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