Re: Potato

[John Carline <jtc@stic.net>]

Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
>
> > Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate.
>
> Hmm, as a biologist, I cannot leave it like that.
>
> A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant,
> necessary for vegetative reproduction. Starch is the carbohydrate, but
> potato is the name for the organ and not for its content.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kerstin

Jeeezzz! This list is educational. And all this time I thought it was just a baby box
of french fries ;-)

John


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