Question About Potatoes
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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I have to have an ultrasound of my gallbladder in the morning. Tonight I can only eat fruits and vegetables. WebMD said to eat fat free meal. I was wondering if potato is considered a vegetable and would be safe to eat in some soup? I have found conflicting things on the internet. Thanks for your help.
Potatoes: A Complete Planting Guide
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| A complete planting guide for potatoes including state specific varieties, planting dates, days to harvest, nutrition facts, fertilizing, watering, insect and disease information. |
Senate blocks Barack Obama's school potato limit
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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The US Senate has blocked a proposal by the Obama administration to limit potatoes in school lunches. The lawmakers also backed an amendment which bars putting any limits on serving other vegetables in US schools. The administration's proposal had envisaged that pupils would have no more than two servings a week of potatoes and other starchy vegetables. Government health officials say pupils should have more diverse diets, because they get enough potatoes already.
USDA school-food proposal gets under spud industry’s skin
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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French fries may soon be bullied out of school cafeterias if the government gets its way, but Big Tater isn’t backing down. Rallying around school food service professionals and members of Congress, the spud industry is pushing back against a U.S. Department of Agriculture proposal to limit starchy vegetables in school meals to just one cup per week. Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins picked potatoes as a child. “The rule simply goes too far,” she said during an Oct. 5 luncheon hosted by the National Potato Council. “It makes no sense whatsoever.” While the Obama administration points its finger at...
Man Seriously Injured In Potato Gun Explosion
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A man was hospitalized after being seriously injured in a potato gun explosion. Police said they received a report of a shooting in the 200 block of Alpha Avenue at about 4:15 p.m. Monday, where they found 53-year-old John Berthiaume II lying in the street. Berthiaume suffered injuries to his right arm and leg when his homemade potato gun exploded, Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said. The victim's brother, Tony, said it appeared that his brother put too much black powder into the device. "I guess it stressed the metal out too much, and it blew... |
Snowe Boiled and Steamed Over USDA Proposal Restricting Potato Consumption in Schools[Fish Update]
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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Senator Snowe said a proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) limiting total servings of starchy vegetables (potatoes, corn, green peas, and lima beans) to one cup per week and eliminating these vegetables from breakfast meals is not grounded in scientific data and does not make economic sense. In letters to First Lady Michelle Obama, founder of the Let’s Move campaign, and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Senator Snowe urged reevaluation of the nutritional and economic impacts of this proposal. Senator Snowe recently joined her colleagues in calling on President Obama to resolve a discrepancy within the Administration regarding...
Is President Obama a Christian, an ape, a potato, or none of the above?
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Fellow San Diego examiner Anna Cheuvront recently published an article entitled "President Obama talks about his faith at the National Prayer Breakfast." Within the article, President Obama is quoted as saying: "My Christian faith has been sustaining for me over the last couple of years and even more so when Michelle and I hear our faith questioned from time to time. We are reminded that ultimately what matters is not what other people say about us but that we are true to our conscience and true to our God."President Obama claims to be a Christian, yet that claim has been... |
Mysterious Asteroid Unmasked By Space Probe Flyby
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| A European spacecraft zoomed by past a mysterious asteroid Saturday to take the first-ever close look at the space rock while flying more than 282 million miles from Earth. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta space probe flew past the asteroid Lutetia, an object discovered in 1852 that appeared only as a bright speck in the sky to astronomers until today. The first new photos of the asteroid revealed Lutetia to be a lumpy rock with a potato-like appearance. Rosetta was about 1,900 miles (3,100 km) from the asteroid at its closest approach. The enigmatic space rock, which is about... |
Idaho GOP Approves Far-Right Platform: Repeal 17th Amendment, Buy Gold And Silver
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Idaho Republicans held their convention over the past weekend, approving a platform containing some mighty interesting parts of the Tea Party platform -- from state nullification of federal laws, to protecting the institution of marriage from transgendered people, to to a Glenn-Beckesque embrace of gold and silver money. State Rep. Marv Hagedorn (R) told the Associated Press that the push to go further right was a product of disgust with the current status quo from the Obama administration. "It does reflect a change," said Hagedorn. "But it's not a change in our party, it's a change in the White House."... |
SNL POLL and "Potato Chips" as a metaphor for Climategate.
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| NASA Potato Chips — Holy what the f***? This was the most out there skit of SNL I think I’ve seen in years, and that includes the digital shorts. This was so absurd that it must be based on something that I haven’t seen before…? I’ve gotta say, though, I thought it was pretty freakin’ funny in just how weird it was, even if I almost threw up in my own mouth a little at the thought of what happened. |
POTATO AND CHEESE SOUP
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| A few simple ingredients make a sumptuous soup. Be sure to use a high-quality cheddar; it's crucial to the dish's flavor. Choose a yellow cheese for the richest color. For a chunkier soup, skip the pureeing and just break up some of the potato with a spoon. |
Cold temperatures threaten seed potato crop
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Cold temperatures threaten seed potato crop By the Associated Press | Posted: Sunday, October 11, 2009 2:30 pm BOZEMAN - Record-low temperatures in southwestern Idaho are threatening to destroy at least a portion of this season's crop of seed potatoes. Spuds still in the ground could be saved by a layer of snow; a dusting had fallen on Bozeman and the surrounding region by Sunday. |
International research team cracks potato genome
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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A global team of researchers has mapped the genetic code of the world's most popular vegetable — the potato. The draft of the potato genome released last week represents the work of more than 50 scientists from 16 institutions and will provide a starting point for other researchers to develop sturdier, more nutritious potatoes. That's important because the potato is widely grown and plays a central role in feeding the world's 6.3 billion people, said Robin Buell, a Michigan State University plant biologist who worked on the project. The East Lansing school announced the results in the U.S. The Potato...
President Obama Receives a "Heart-Shaped Potato" from a Woman on the Letterman Show - Video 9/21/09
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Here is video from last night where President Obama received a "heart-shaped" potato from a woman in the audience (I'm not making this up). Letterman took the potato from the woman in the audience and brought it to Obama, who thanked the woman for "sharing." . . . . (VIDEO) |
Cheesy Potato and Ham Casserole
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Ingredients: 6 medium potatoes - peeled and thinly sliced 2 large onions - peeled and thinly sliced 4 hard boiled eggs - chopped 1/2 cup of grated cheddar cheese |
Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S.
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Late blight, which caused the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and 1850s, is killing potato and tomato plants in home gardens from Maine to Ohio and threatening commercial and organic farms... "Late blight has never occurred this early and this widespread in the United States," said Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist at Cornell University's extension center in Riverhead, New York. She said the fungal disease, spread by spores carried in the air, has made its way into the garden centers of large retail chains in the Northeastern United States. "Wal-mart, Home Depot, Sears, Kmart and Lowe's are some of... |
(Irish) Potato Famine Fungus Found in Plattsburgh (NY)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| The plant fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s has shown up in Plattsburgh, and experts say residents need to act quickly. It's called "late blight" and it affects eggplants, potatoes and tomatoes. The fungus hasn't made it this far north in about a decade, but it moves quickly and can kill an infected plant in as short as a week and a half. The signs that your plants have late blight are brownish lesions on the leaves which make them look wet. Late blight was discovered in the region at unnamed major box stores on Friday.... |
Vicar went to hospital with potato stuck in bottom (says "fell on vegetable while naked")
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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The clergyman, in his 50s, told nurses he had been hanging curtains when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table. He happened to be nude at the time of the mishap, said the vicar, who insisted he had not been playing a sex game. The vicar had to undergo a delicate operation to extract the vegetable, one of a range of odd items medics in Sheffield have had to remove from people's backsides or genitals. Others include a can of deodorant, a cucumber, a Russian doll – and a carnation.
'Potatoe Boy' Weighs In on Dan Quayle's Election Gaffe
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Sarah Palin and Joe Biden may have made a few mistakes during Thursday night's vice presidential debate, but it remains to be seen whether their mistakes will stick in voters' minds like one infamous vice presidential gaffe from the 1992 election. Few political gaffes are as memorable as Vice President Dan Quayle's misspelling. Quayle told a grade-school boy in New Jersey that he had misspelled the word "potato" during a photo-op spelling bee. With the cameras rolling, Quayle directed the boy to add an "e" to the end of the word. "Potatoe" became a defining moment in the election, and... |
The potato makes a comeback
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| As wheat and rice prices surge, the humble potato - long derided as a boring tuber prone to making you fat - is being rediscovered as a nutritious crop that could cheaply feed an increasingly hungry world. Potatoes, which are native to Peru, can be grown at almost any elevation or in any climate: from the barren, frigid slopes of the Andes Mountains to the tropical flatlands of Asia. They require very little water, mature in as little as 50 days, and can yield between two and four times as much food per hectare as wheat or rice. Rice on... |
As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground-..International Year of the Potato,
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| LIMA (Reuters) - As wheat and rice prices surge, the humble potato -- long derided as a boring tuber prone to making you fat -- is being rediscovered as a nutritious crop that could cheaply feed an increasingly hungry world. Potatoes, which are native to Peru, can be grown at almost any elevation or climate: from the barren, frigid slopes of the Andes Mountains to the tropical flatlands of Asia. They require very little water, mature in as little as 50 days, and can yield between two and four times more food per hectare than wheat or rice. "The shocks... |
FReeper Canteen ~ Happy St. Patrick's Day! ~ 17 Mar. 2008
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| And a Happy Saint Patty's day to ye from the FReeper Canteen! Just a wee bit o' fun for your holiday! The History of St. Patrick What's Your Irish Name? (Please share!) Billy Bear's St. Patrick's Day Pages Please remember: the Canteen is a politics-free zone. We are here for the enjoyment of our troops and their families! Thanks for honoring our tradition! |
Using DNA, Scientists Hunt For The Roots Of The Modern Potato
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Using DNA, Scientists Hunt For The Roots Of The Modern Potato ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2008) — More than 99 percent of all modern potato varieties planted today are the direct descendants of varieties that once grew in the lowlands of south-central Chile. How Chilean germplasm came to dominate the modern potato-which spread worldwide from Europe-has been the subject of a long, contentious debate among scientists. While some plant scientists have maintained that Chilean potatoes were the first to be planted in Europe, a more widely accepted story holds that European potatoes were originally descended from plants grown high in the... |
Sweet Potato Promises Hunger Relief In Developing Countries
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Sweet Potato Promises Hunger Relief In Developing Countries ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2007) — Sweetpotatoes, often misunderstood and underrated, are receiving new attention as a life-saving food crop in developing countries. According to the International Potato Center, more than 95 percent of the global sweetpotato crop is grown in developing countries, where it is the fifth most important food crop. Despite its name, the sweetpotato is not related to the potato. Potatoes are tubers (referring to their thickened stems) and members of the Solanaceae family, which also includes tomatoes, red peppers, and eggplant. Sweetpotatoes are classified as "storage roots" and belong... |
Western Iowa man killed after potato gun explosion
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:45:10 PM
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| Western Iowa man killed after potato gun explosion HULL (AP) --- A potato gun stuffed with explosive powder ignited and erupted, killing a Hull man on Friday night. The potato gun apparently ruptured when it was fired by Ryan Meerdink, 21, authorities with the Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office said. Hull authorities discovered Meerdink outside a residence around 8:20 on Friday night. He was then taken to Sioux Center Hospital, where he later died. Authorities believe the explosion was an accident. "It's just been real blurry today," said Betty Meerdink, Ryan's grandmother. Funeral arrangements are pending. |
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