D&D economics

[Storm Bringer]

As opposed to what? I bet that if you live only on rice that you'd miss out on important stuff too.

Indeed. you miss out on some of the Vitamin B types (mainly vitamin B1), which leads to Beri-beri. This is assuming your're eating 'polished' rice (which has been husked and treated to last longer).

[Frosty]

Eating both rice and beans will give you all the necessary amino acids I believe.

[Storm Bringer]

hell, eating whole-grain rice would prevent it, just as eating citrus fruits is a sure-fire cure for scruvey

[bosssmiley]

No even small amounts are toxic. Potatoes are nightshades and all nightshades are toxic.

Deadly Nightspuds?

*visualises potatocubed hopping across the rooftops in spuddish ninja garb*

Giantitp: The only place you can turn a discussion on D&D Economics into an argument about toxic potatoes.

Derailing threads, looting the overturned wreckage, and then stealing the rails for scrap; it's what we do.

[Wraithy]

A balanced diet has only been the concern of most people since the second world war (in the UK at least), before then most people were only bothered about eating enough fat and padding it out with cheaper stuff until it was filling.

[Frosty]

And that's why they didn't live very long, amongst other reasons.

[AKA_Bait]

And that's why they didn't live very long, amongst other reasons.

Also why the average height and shoe size has increased.

[Fenix_of_Doom]

Giantitp: The only place you can turn a discussion on D&D Economics into an arguement about toxic potatoes.

Can I sig that? I think it sums the board up nicely.(no reaction will be taken a s a yes)

[Killersquid]

I eat potatos all the time. Granted, never raw, only cooked, so the toxins are probably gone.

Know this is an older post, but toxins aren't killed by fire, only viruses and bacteria are.

[Yakk]

Killed is the wrong word. Changed and made innocuous is better.

Many toxins can be made non-toxic by heating. Chemistry and stuffs.

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Potatoes also let you engage in warfare easier -- they are really high energy per unit, and they keep really well. You can drag or carry potatoes on the march and go further than you can with many alternatives.

[Killersquid]

Killed is the wrong word. Changed and made innocuous is better.

Many toxins can be made non-toxic by heating. Chemistry and stuffs.

Yea, but not everyone has a Degree in chemistry to know if the potato he just cooked is safe.

[AKA_Bait]

Yea, but not everyone has a Degree in chemistry to know if the potato he just cooked is safe.

Oh come now. The amount of toxin in any given potato is way to small to be 'unsafe'. I have never, in my life, heard of someone dying or becoming ill from potato poisining.

You don't need a degree in chemistry to know the potato you cooked is safe, thousands of years of human history have proven that eating potatos is just fine.

[Killersquid]

Oh come now. The amount of toxin in any given potato is way to small to be 'unsafe'. I have never, in my life, heard of someone dying or becoming ill from potato poisining.

You don't need a degree in chemistry to know the potato you cooked is safe, thousands of years of human history have proven that eating potatos is just fine.

Yea, but its always good to be safe.

[AKA_Bait]

Yea, but its always good to be safe.

Safe has reasonable limits. There are risks to everything we do. That kind of safe is on par with never crossing the street to avoid the potential of a car coming out of no where and killing you. In fact, the car example is more likley than death by potato poising.

[Killersquid]

Safe has reasonable limits. There are risks to everything we do. That kind of safe is on par with never crossing the street to avoid the potential of a car coming out of no where and killing you. In fact, the car example is more likley than death by potato poising.

Ok, yea I probably went a bit overboard.

<Goes to wash his Bleach of germs.>

[Wraithy]

Potatoes are also a useful crop because at least one of the breeds is in season at any point during the year.