Also what do you see?
Oh shit is that potato blight?
Yup
The photos I’m seeing online look way worse than this one.
the post below in my feed seems to be relevant to this post somehow
There is two things going on there.
First if you look closely you can see holes in the spud. This is insect damage, likely caused by a wireworm (larval form of a clickbeetle species.)
Second is a physiological damage in storage/shipping causing the black color. This is not blight or another fungus, but the tubers reaction to suboptimal storage condition (not enough O2).
Are we using the Quayle spelling now?
Upvote because I’m old enough to remember.
(Riffling through my Rolodex of ancient webcomics.)
Ah, here we are:
That’s how you got Irish Americans
German psychiatrist voice
“It appears to be threatened by self actualization and fixated on its dysfunctional relationship with its Father.”
I think this is Black heart
My Irish half just shuddered.
My favourite great hunger joke:
How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
None.
No potatoes doesn’t kill an Irishman, but Queen Victoria endorsing Charles Trevelyan’s laisse-faire policies of “continuing food exports and limiting aid to fellow subjects because depopulating Ireland was God’s will” did.
