Monday, August 03, 2009

POTATO PARANOIA?


Mashed Potatoes
Originally uploaded by jugglerpm
Thomas seems a tad more worried by green-skinned potatoes than me. In fact he approaches them in the same way that most Brits would approach a plate of toadstools collected randomly in the forest by an amateur.
Here in the UK we might avoid a dark green potato but a slight green haze on one potato in the bag wouldn't send us looking for an all-night doctor. We're used to the odd green chip or crisp in a bag and we happily munch them.
Thomas explained to me that Danes are so worried about the toxicity of green potatoes they'd take one back to a shop for a refund or bin it.
I thought I'd investigate.
It seems they are toxic but an adult would have to ingest 2kg of green potatoes at one sitting before the toxicity would start to affect them.
Interesting!
(I'm away to eat my mash - I hope Thomas won't notice the one greenish potato I threw in ;-) )

1 comment:

Harry Campbell said...

Thomas explained to me how Danes are so worried about the toxicity of green potatoes they'd take one back to a shop for a refund or bin it.

I was looking forward to the explanation, till I realised that by "how" you only meant "that". ;-]