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04/16/08 As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground

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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.


That's what they want you to think but actually it's a clever plot to undermine the world's economy.
Posted by Trench in The Brown Menace at 07:51 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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#1 - Elessarion 2008-04-17 16:44 - (Reply)

We need another potato famine!

#1.1 - Trench said:
2008-04-17 19:07 - (Reply)

Says the Englishwoman to the Irishman. :-P


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