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Alan--do you ever think about what happens to "commercial" potatoes plants
before the crop is harvested.

They are sprayed with very strong sulphuric acid - IIRC, 85%

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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