Thread: Black cartilage in potato

On Jan 30, 11:02*am, "Tom Del Rosso" <td...@verizon.net.invalid>
wrote:
> Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black cartilagenous
> material through the center. *It had a Y-shaped cross section like the
> cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was almost as hard.
>
> This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
>
> What was that?

It was not cartilage, I can tell you that!

John Kuthe...

John Kuthe wrote:
> On Jan 30, 11:02 am, "Tom Del Rosso" <td...@verizon.net.invalid>
> wrote:
> > Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black
> > cartilagenous material through the center. It had a Y-shaped cross
> > section like the cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was
> > almost as hard.
> >
> > This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
> >
> > What was that?
>
> It was not cartilage, I can tell you that!

It was too solid to be a mold. Maybe some kind of in-grown skin.


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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:02:55 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black cartilagenous
>material through the center. It had a Y-shaped cross section like the
>cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was almost as hard.
>
>This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
>
>What was that?

see here
http://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/dis...o/PoBlHrt.html
Janet us

Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
> see here
> http://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/dis...o/PoBlHrt.html

Thanks.


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On Jan 30, 11:30*am, Janet Bostwick <nos...@cableone.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:02:55 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso"
>
> <td...@verizon.net.invalid> wrote:
>
> >Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black cartilagenous
> >material through the center. *It had a Y-shaped cross section like the
> >cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was almost as hard.
>
> >This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
>
> >What was that?
>
> see herehttp://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/disease/agron/Potato/PoBlHrt.html
> Janet us

There ya go, I told you it was not cartilage!

Thanks Janet! Now we all know. :-)

John Kuthe...

On Jan 30, 12:02*pm, "Tom Del Rosso" <td...@verizon.net.invalid>
wrote:
> Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black cartilagenous
> material through the center. *It had a Y-shaped cross section like the
> cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was almost as hard.
>
> This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
>
> What was that?
>
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cancer

On Jan 30, 12:01*pm, A Moose in Love <parkstreetboo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 30, 12:02*pm, "Tom Del Rosso" <td...@verizon.net.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black cartilagenous
> > material through the center. *It had a Y-shaped cross section like the
> > cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was almost as hard.
>
> > This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
>
> > What was that?
>
> > --
>
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>
> cancer

Not really, since cancer is your own cells mutated and misbehaving.

John Kuthe...

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:36:34 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>
>> see here
>> http://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/dis...o/PoBlHrt.html
>
>Thanks.

Thanks Tom for asking and thanks Janet for answering. Yesterday I had
a potato just like that, now I know what it is.

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On 1/30/2012 7:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:36:34 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>>
>>> see here
>>> http://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/dis...o/PoBlHrt.html
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Thanks Tom for asking and thanks Janet for answering. Yesterday I had
> a potato just like that, now I know what it is.

Same here. I just thought it was simply rot.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:30:03 -0700, Janet Bostwick
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:02:55 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> >Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black cartilagenous
> >material through the center. It had a Y-shaped cross section like the
> >cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was almost as hard.
> >
> >This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
> >
> >What was that?
>
> see here
> http://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/dis...o/PoBlHrt.html

Thanks. I've always just sucked it up and haven't complained to the
store, but it looks like part of the problem is preventable so maybe I
should. They could certainly spot check for the problem and reject
shipments if they find enough of it. The blight isn't just a random
potato here or there, I often have an entire bag full of potatoes with
it.


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