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let me guess, “eat insects”?
by gpmcadam 3y ago
let me guess, “eat insects”?
- leethargo 3y agoI think potatoes is what the Chinese government was already promoting for some years.
- scythe 3y agoChina does promote potatoes. But the key advantage of the potato is that it grows where rice will not, in the drier and colder west of China. So it allows China to expand its food growing capacity. Unfortunately, while I had plenty of good experiences with food available in China, it was my experience (2018) that the restaurants just didn't know what to do with potatoes; they were usually served like a turnip or carrot or something, and not treated as a starch. It probably doesn't help that most of the potato dishes that Westerners adore involve dairy products or olive oil in some way, when these are not so accessible in China.
- the_af 3y agoAre potatoes healthy, anyway? I adore them, but they cause trouble (gas, fermentation) and they seem to be excluded from many kinds of health diets. (The again, most nutritionists seem cargo cultists to me)
- konfusinomicon 3y agoI've always been told to not eat the rice if it has eyes but perhaps those who told me were climate change deniers