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To: Gord Bolton who wrote (82699)	3/1/2002 2:40:53 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116770

I knew a few potatoe farmers in my time. Hmmmm ... vitamin C eh? Whew! No wonder when the Irish ran out of potatoes they all came over here in rowboats! Run out of potatoes and you are out of a country! Makes you wonder why people waste time chasing steak across the plains when they can stay home and eat tubers and watch the tube. Hey! Waiteeress! Make that a dozen of them purple potatoes and easy on the cheese! Put a rush on it will yah? We are some short of fibre, potass-ee-um and C-vits there, girlie! Man alive, that there E-Bay tradin' works up a powerful cravin for them earth apples don't it? Did you know that prior to the brits invadin' Ireland back in King Henry the VIII's day, the patate was practically a stranger to the table. They brought it back from the new world as an experiment to feed their new found slaves, the Irish, and cheaply. Many people were dubious of its food quality and thought as they once did the tomatoe that it might be poisonous. (Tomatoes, after all, are a member of the same family as Deadly Nightshade.) EC<:-}

To: Gord Bolton who wrote (82699)	3/1/2002 8:30:27 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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...

To: Gord Bolton who wrote (82699)	3/1/2002 11:01:17 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116770

Potatoes or Turnips Prior to the introduction of the potato the tuber of choice was the turnip. Turnips have never sold for their weight in gold, but they do travel well and they would have loved the Yukon. Turnips contain very few of your daily recommended needs, but anything that tastes that bad has to have some health benefits. People who opened up corner stores in the Gold Rush find themselves today, alone in the wilderness.