Subject: Re: Potatoes

From: [email-masked] (Jane Beckman)
Date: 24 May 93 20:55:46 GMT

I've heard another one of the things that spooked folks on
potatoes was that several times, people tried cooking up the
leafy tops and eating them as a vegetable and got very ill.
After all, it worked for beets---why *shouldn't* you eat
potato tops?

Interestingly enough, sweet potatos were accepted much sooner
than the "real" potato.  By the 1520's, in the areas where
they would grow, I've heard.
--
  Jilara   [[email-masked]]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.