They call dogs mans best friend, but we ignore the humble potato. Have they been with us as long as canines? No. That's why they're putting in so much effort to fufill our every need.

One day you're going to wake up and realize you love your potatoes. That they love you. The entire time, you'll know what you need to do. It will hurt, as it always does, as you boil and mash this tuber that was once your closest companion, but in return, they will give you a full days nourishment and only ask for a little more butter this time.

Are we sure this isn’t because of local contamination or something like that? Are we sure this is actually naturally occurring?

Nanograms / gram.

So just eat about 1 million potatoes daily.

I first believed a "potato tuber" to be something similar to a v-tuber, but it's a potato.

Does this mean we could genetically engineer them to produce enough for an adult dose?

Wait til u hear what they find in the humble poppy

Potatoes are also one of the few foods you can live almost entirely on. If you eat the skin. They have about everything you need, unlike all other staple foods. The problem is you need a lot of them, and they get weird if they freeze. But you could dry them.

Peruvians used to smash them on the rocks and freeze dry them in the cold Andean air to preserve them for the winters up there above 10k feet.

Those aren‘t just anxiety drugs. Lorazepam is a literal Benzo. Which means it literally depresses (ie. makes less active) your CNS (brain).

These drugs are highly addictive and tolerance forming. They‘re often prescribed for insomnia since they inhibit brain signalling.

Once your brain forms tolerance it increases excitatory signalling to „counter“ the drug. Which means if you abruptly stop, you get withdrawal. Your brain is „overactive“ you have seizures, loads of horrible symptoms, in some cases people die.

(Not trying to scare people, short term or sporadic use is actually decently safe, it‘s long term high dose use which is dangerous. But basically my point is „anxiety drug“ is underselling what this is.)

Boil 'em . . . mash 'em . . . shove 'em up your ass . . . PO-TAY-TOES!

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a pharmacy.

This might be pro-potato propaganda from big potato to drive up demand after the potato market crash in Europe. I'm gonna make mash with mine.

...plug?

Potato tubers, YouTubers who talk about potatoes a lot.

God I love potatoes.

That is all

TIL that I'm growing Ativan in my garden this year.

TIL Starch Sadness isn't just a meme.

You're welcome.

Potatoes are proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

boil em mash em stick em in a stew

!potatoism@lemmy.world

They aren't doing their job. Guess I need to up my dose.

Boil 'em, mash 'em, inject 'em.

They left out paint stamps

...won't someone think of the lowly potato cannons? amusing hicks since the invention of the pipe...