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Why Are Potatoes Called Spuds
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It probably starts with a little known 1924 D.W.Griffith film called Isn't Life Wonderful? Spuds play a starring role here - publicity stills featured the leading lady and man smiling at each other over a tin basin of dirt-covered potatoes.
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Dear Word Detective: I'm taking an Introduction to Horticulture class and my professor told us a bunch of interesting information about potatoes. Among the facts that they are poisonous, etc., he mentioned that they are also called "spuds" by some people.
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Spud is a nickname for potatoes. Potatoes are vegetables that grow under the ground from the potato seeds. Potato seeds are also called "eyes", but they can't see! It takes potatoes about two or three months to grow.
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The remaining white flour called chuno was lightweight and storable for up to four years. It is mixed with water and used even today to make bread. The Incas also brewed a kind of beer from potatoes called chica.
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To Helen of Tenerife, taters may have been the word you used, but I remember potatoes being called spuds. Also a hole in your socks was also called a spud and your mother would darn it. Yes I also remember the singing postman and one of his songs Molly Lindley ( she smokes like a chimney).
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A periodic bout of insomnia struck last night so I flipped on the "tube" just in time to catch a trendy and entertaining show on Fox News Channel called "RedEye". Meat & Potatoes Loyalists will recall from past entries that I'm a big fan of the show and its host Greg Gutfeld.
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With governments having trouble feeding the growing number of hungry poor and grain prices fluctuating wildly, food scientists are proposing a novel solution for the global food crisis: Let them eat potatoes. ... Production in China rose 50 percent from 2005 to 2007, and the government has called potatoes a way out of poverty.
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