Papa te llamas papa y no patata
June 23, 2022 9:55 AM Subscribe
You might know by now that the potato was first domesticated around the shores of Titicaca, but did you know that most of the potatoes eaten around the world today originate further south, on the island of Chiloé in southern Chile? And that they have 300 named varieties in a large range of colors? Or that they make all kinds of things with them like Chapalele and Milcao? Or that to properly appreciate them, you really need to be enjoying a huge amount of fish, seafood, pork, chicken and sausage from a hole in the ground?
Ooook, what's going on with the potatoes?
Potato posts are running high right now because their natural predators are low. It's all governed by the Latke–Volterra equations.
posted by aws17576 at 10:27 AM on June 23, 2022 [6 favorites]
Potato posts are running high right now because their natural predators are low. It's all governed by the Latke–Volterra equations.
posted by aws17576 at 10:27 AM on June 23, 2022 [6 favorites]
Sometimes you can have a tad too much effing info about tubers.
(Thanks for explaining why it's potatoes all the way down Reasonably Everything Happens!)
posted by Jody Tresidder at 10:28 AM on June 23, 2022
(Thanks for explaining why it's potatoes all the way down Reasonably Everything Happens!)
posted by Jody Tresidder at 10:28 AM on June 23, 2022
Potato posts are running high right now because their natural predators are low. It's all governed by the Latke–Volterra equations.
posted by aws17576
u magnificent bastard
posted by lalochezia at 10:55 AM on June 23, 2022
posted by aws17576
u magnificent bastard
posted by lalochezia at 10:55 AM on June 23, 2022
I’m not sure if I want to go to Chiloe first to eat every one those 300 potato varieties, or Oaxaca for the equivalent in corn.
I was lucky enough to work with a crew of Peruvian men in 2020 who were painting a house I was working on and they were gracious enough to include me in their lunchtime feasts of insane ceviche made from completely different ingredients each day and some crazy ass potato varieties I had never seen before or since. Wildly different flavors and textures and modes of preparation and each one delicious. (They also brought a couple gallons of chicha morada everyday that I got to drink as much of as I wanted).
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 7:42 PM on June 23, 2022
I was lucky enough to work with a crew of Peruvian men in 2020 who were painting a house I was working on and they were gracious enough to include me in their lunchtime feasts of insane ceviche made from completely different ingredients each day and some crazy ass potato varieties I had never seen before or since. Wildly different flavors and textures and modes of preparation and each one delicious. (They also brought a couple gallons of chicha morada everyday that I got to drink as much of as I wanted).
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 7:42 PM on June 23, 2022
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(hmmm, nope)
posted by Reasonably Everything Happens at 10:07 AM on June 23, 2022 [2 favorites]