Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
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Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
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#2Weird abundance problems. Should we get used to it?
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#3> “There were pictures of huge mountains of ‘earth apples’,” she recalled, using the word Erdäpfel, an affectionate term for the potato sometimes used by Berliners
Fun fact: the Hebrew translation of potato, תפוח אדמה, is the portmanteau of "earth" (אדמה) and "apple" (תפוח).
If you should ever be so fortunate as to have too many potatoes, see if you can shred them with a food processor and combine with onion, egg, salt, and pepper to make potato kugel, which freezes exceptionally well.
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#4Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618544
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#5This is a massive missed opportunity for financialization. We need a 3x Leveraged Bull Potato ETF immediately. Tokenize the crop, lock it in a vault and trade futures against the harvest. Why feed people for free when we could create artificial scarcity and pump the price 10x by next week?
McDonald’s fries pricing suggests the market has already priced in a massive supply squeeze. They are generating better margins on a sliced potato than the Central Banks get when they print fiat.
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#6> “There were pictures of huge mountains of ‘earth apples’,” she recalled, using the word Erdäpfel, an affectionate term for the potato sometimes used by Berliners Fun fact: the Hebrew translation of potato, תפוח אדמה, is the portmanteau of "earth" (אדמה) and "apple" (תפוח). If you should ever be so fortunate as to have too many potatoes, see if you can shred them with a food processor and combine with onion, egg, sa…
The French term for potatoes is also ‘earth apple’: pomme de terre
Re: Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
#7> “There were pictures of huge mountains of ‘earth apples’,” she recalled, using the word Erdäpfel, an affectionate term for the potato sometimes used by Berliners Fun fact: the Hebrew translation of potato, תפוח אדמה, is the portmanteau of "earth" (אדמה) and "apple" (תפוח). If you should ever be so fortunate as to have too many potatoes, see if you can shred them with a food processor and combine with onion, egg, sa…
The French term for potatoes is also ‘earth apple’: pomme de terre
Polish is ziemniaki, where ziemia is earth.
Re: Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
#8This is a massive missed opportunity for financialization. We need a 3x Leveraged Bull Potato ETF immediately. Tokenize the crop, lock it in a vault and trade futures against the harvest. Why feed people for free when we could create artificial scarcity and pump the price 10x by next week? McDonald’s fries pricing suggests the market has already priced in a massive supply squeeze. They are generating better margins o…
Leave it to [capitalism|socialism] to organize artificial scarcity..
why does endstage one starts to feel like the other..
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#9> “There were pictures of huge mountains of ‘earth apples’,” she recalled, using the word Erdäpfel, an affectionate term for the potato sometimes used by Berliners Fun fact: the Hebrew translation of potato, תפוח אדמה, is the portmanteau of "earth" (אדמה) and "apple" (תפוח). If you should ever be so fortunate as to have too many potatoes, see if you can shred them with a food processor and combine with onion, egg, sa…
The French term for potatoes is also ‘earth apple’: pomme de terre
I'm fairly sure that is the origin of Erdäpfel. We certainly thought this was a funny name for potato when we learned French in Scotland :-)
When I learned German the word for potato was Kartoffel.
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#10It's good they didn't flood the market and tank the price.
It's real btw. I got a whole wagens worth and distributed amongst my neighbors