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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So you may think! But I left three pounds of potatoes on a high shelf and forgot all summer til I noticed a smell. They rotted and started leaking everywhere. It stained the shelf. Potatoes will come for you if you give them time, humidity and heat

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I forgot about a bag of potatoes once. ONCE.

They smelled like lukewarm death.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And to think at some point in history that happened to somebody and they thought I better drink that liquid potato

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Emmm. Moist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The secret is to store them in dirt. Worst case scenario, you now have a potato plant instead of a potato.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Everything will come from you if you give it time humidity and heat 😂.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I also discovered this. I was panicking a little bit when I started smelling what seemed like sewage in my basement. In a 100 year old house, I was wondering what broke. After a few hours, I figured out that there were potatoes rotting in the pantry, which was more open to the basement than it was to the main floor of the house - so all the smell sank down there. It was honestly a relief.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I worked at a train yard taking train cars full of potatoes and loading them on semi trucks to go across the bridge to Canada. One car had sat in the sun with no refrigeration for a week before it got to us. When we cracked that thing open, the smell was atrocious. It was like we could feel it as it expanded out, it was so potent.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Hell, just leave us alone and we'll start sprouting!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

And then you can plant us in the garden and have a bunch more, how cool is that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

a flowering/sprouting potato creeps me out in a way i can't describe, they look completely alien.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Onions and potatoes are the best fruits

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Best part about onions is that if it's gone a little bad, just tear of layers untill you find a good layer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The healthiest house plants in my home are the potatoes in the bottom of the kitchen cupboard I forgot about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Worst case scenario, I'll grow more potatoes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Супер Сус!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What's taters, precious?

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