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Derald wrote:

songbird wrote:

Billy wrote:
songbird wrote:
Billy wrote:
godkingross wrote:
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I could not advise you to eat them, although i'll tell you i'd probably
eat them unless they're growing near spilt oil or chemicals, a septic
tank, stagnant water, some animal/s corpse/s or fresh animal feces,
because i'm so tight-fisted.
I suppose they COULD be potentially be harmful... you never know what
the previous tenants have chucked in that soil, but that'd still be the
case if you'd have decided to grow your own potatoes in there. but i
suppose as the e coli outbreak in Europe proves, shop bought veggies
COULD be potentially harmful too.

Songbird,
I believe this is your cue.

?

I thought we had agreed that you would be the patron saint of the
clueless, and deranged usenet travelers who found themselves in
"wrecked gardens", instead of David and I savaging them. I believe the
above qualifies.

noway hozay. i'm on short rations today
and have to skip those. otherwise i would
be writing a novel on another group about
how proper landscaping saves more $ and
effort than trying to cover it over and
finding out later it still looks like crap.


The the OP gives no clues as to the environment of the
"feral" potatoes except that they are in some kind of border, and
responding poster never tries to ascertain possible pollutants, but
instead rattles off a shopping list of possible dangers, blatantly
leaving out "radioactive waste".

glow in the dark tater tots! a late
night snack for the elderly who no
longer care about their expected kick
off date.


Requesting information as to the length of occupancy and chemicals
applied could have shed some light on the puzzle. "A septic
tank, stagnant water, some animal/s corpse/s or fresh animal feces"
don't really enter in to it unless the OP plans on eating the potatoes
raw.

I think my curmudgeoning here is done.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/0...-of-e-coli-ill
ness-in-u-s/

i'm more worried about the new strain
in Europe/Germany making a jump across
the pond.


songbird
I'll swear, the preceeding exchange leaves me more firmly convinced that
"Aus" simply is a misspelling of "Ass". Now, if the actual productive
contributors here could resist quoting the argumentative, self-important,
all-knowing twits....

Still killing honeybees?
--
- Billy

Mad dog Republicans to the right. Democratic spider webs to the left. True conservatives, and liberals not to be found anywhere in the phantasmagoria
of the American political landscape.

America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash.
It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the
greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks
and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/.../michael-moore
/michael-moore-says-400-americans-have-more-wealth-/