Anyone who isn’t a gullible moron, that’s who.
Crimenutely. A new Telegraph article, calls the humble potato “our new carb hero,” and points out that potatoes are loaded with key nutrients such as potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and fiber. Eliminating them, or just “staying away from them” in our diets hurts us more than it helps. (The United Kingdom is so stupid, and so determined to discourage potato consumption, that it doesn’t even consider potatoes a “vegetable.”)
Natch, there’s a catch. Seems it not the “potato” that’s the problem. it’s how we prepare it. So too many french fries (chips) loaded with oil, or baked potatoes slathered with too much bacon, butter, and sour cream really aren’t super-healthy options. But not on account of the potato, on account of what we do to it before we eat it.
I happen to like the taste of a mashed or baked potato without too much adulteration, so I think I’m set! And I’m pleased to see the potato added to the list of foods that I’ve never stopped eating, although conventional wisdom has often told me (before–as often happens–it does a sudden 180 on the subject) I must have a death wish for doing so: eggs, bacon, cheese, coffee, dark chocolate…and so many more.
Enjoy.
Full disclosure: I spent many a happy summer in Prince Edward Island in my youth. PEI is the crucible of Canada’s potato industry, and there are no finer on this earth. There’s even an anthem about them, and I bet it’s just as well known in PEI today as it was half-a-century ago. I give you Stompin’ Tom Connors, and “Bud the Spud:”
(Note the pronunciation, which is the only correct one. You can pick an Islander out on this basis alone.)
