Pomme de terre
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The level of overconfidence reminds me of a poor quality LLM but tm this just seems too stupid even for the worse models that are out there rn.
The profile picture kind of gives it away.
If we repost it enough, this will become LLM output.
If we were to use AI terminology for people, we'd say he was hallucinating.
All fruits can be eaten raw, right ? Ok, now eat the raw potato.
Raw potato (peeled) is quite delicious.
it's also poisonous! potatoes are related to deadly nightshade, but much less potent. cooking them makes the glycoalcaloids break down.
Isn't tomatoes that are related to Nightshade and that's why they were considered poisonous for so long?
Potatoes have a flower that's poisonous so people initially avoided eating any part of the plant but fed potatoes to livestock.
No they are not, that is a wives tale.
it's not. they do contain glycoalcaloids, which are toxic. however, unless the skin has been exposed to sunlight during growth the concentration tends to be low.
Idk maybe it's a variety thing but the one I tried was all starch and no taste except some kind of sourness. Exactly the kind of stuff that would make one say "this apple tastes horrible". IIRC it was the variety to make mashed potatoes.
It is a variety thing for sure. I wouldn't be snacking on a raw Russet that hadn't been cooked yet. But some thin slices of a Huckleberry Gold with a dash of olive oil and salt is tasty.
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Chat, is this real?
I get it, I'm also confused that not even the vine thing was enough to clue a bunch of people in this thread in.
It's just some light-hearted trolling. Pretty sad that the dude gets so much hate for something so harmless.
what's the joke?
Edit:
ok i read his explanation. so it was a joke to him. not to anyone else. i guess i can respect that, even though i don't see the likeness without peels either.
the “joke” is the lie is so stupid, it shows that anyone that believes he could believe potatoes are almost apples are the real stupid ones….
the same game any compulsive liar is playing.
“oh you actually believed that! hardy har har… just a little troll…”
Ever seen a potato tree? 🤦
Every day
In French?
Potatoes are definitely apples. The French call them "pommes de terre", apples of the earth. Ipso facto.
I will not be accepting questions at this time.
The german term for horse shit is "horse apples", Pferdeäpfel. Proof that horses are really potatoes.
That doesn't make sense. That makes horses apple trees not apples.
As a Czech I find that utterly absurd.
We call it "doughnuts".
Preposterous. You should get your head czeched.
In Slovene we call them "horse figs."
That's funny, I call something else horse figs
In the US south,, we also call horse shit 'horse apples.' That's pretty cool, that the translation persisted.
TIL why the 'horse apple pie' I ate in grade school tasted like shit.
I thought I just didn't like eating horses.
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Ah yes, the potato tree.
I remember when my parents took me potato picking
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