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Friday potato thread: What's the tastiest variety of potato you ever had?
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Friday potato thread: What's the tastiest variety of potato you ever had?

I'm thinking about planting some potatoes, because I read that some butterfly caterpillars like the green part of the plants.

But if I am doing that, why not just grow a really tasty variety that you can not buy everywhere?

This is how I arrived at the question you can read above in the title.

As for me: The tastiest one I have ever eaten was some Danish variety with a red skin and very yellow inside. Unfortunately that was over a decade ago and I do not know the name of that variety.

EDIT: Holy shit, this blew up! I was just making some Pho Bo for dinner when this thread had literally 0 upvotes and 1 downvote and I came back to almost 1k. I'm gonna finish my eating my dinner first and write you y'all after that! I really appreciate and share your enthusiasm!

u/cosmoscrazy — 4 days ago
▲ 39 r/gardening

What do black raspberries (rubus occidentalis) taste like?

And is there a notable difference between regular pink/red raspberries, yellow raspberries and black raspberries?

Will they survive up to -10° Celsius / 14° Fahrenheit temperatures in the winter?

I'm considering to buy a few plants of rubus occidentalis right now, because my garden center has these kinda rare plants as a special offer right now. (Still kinda pricey though.)

So is it worth it?

EDIT: Why do people downvote this? Have I said something wrong?

u/cosmoscrazy — 4 days ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 63 r/AskHistorians

Did ordinary people in ancient Egypt live monogamously or polyamorously?

I am curios whether how those societies managed their relationships. What was accepted? Were there expectations from the families regarding "marriages"? Did the concept of a monogamous marriage even exist back then?

Note: This is a repost of this post from 1 year ago. That post did not receive any qualifying answers which is the reason for why it's allowed to be reposted.

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u/cosmoscrazy — 4 days ago
▲ 27 r/openttd

My key to actually playing a game of OpenTTD for longer and where it fails.

I have played OpenTTD occasionally for years now and I have usually stopped playing once an AI opponent joined - because it would outplay me after a while if I wouldn't buy it up - or I would just lose interest in the game, since industries shut down and open up again which leads to all my planning and building work to be useless.

In the past, the first thing I would do was to connect some industries via train to make some quick money. Not this time though.

This time around I decided to just ignore ALL industries and to start with just busses and roads.

My plan was to connect every city via road and cover them with bus stops to make sure that every city is connected to the ones closest to it.

That was a bit slower, but worked spectacularly well. After I had figured out how to replace all the older vehices via the vehicle group menu with the new vehicle type, I started train connections.

I had chosen mountainous terrain. The 2nd step of my plan was to connect the biggest city via train and to dig tunnels if necessary.

This worked great as well.

But I have some critique on the late game. The late game just ends up becoming big cities with big airports instead of trains where the exploding population floods the airports.

I have once tried an alternative which was 1 (circular) train track running through all cities on the outer edge of the map continously with 1 maglev train. Works as well, but is not as profitable and a bit boring.

The biggest problem I have with OpenTTD is how it doesn't reward you for building integrated global systems. I think the maglev train should be the best solution, but it isn't. The frequent stops mean that you will actually loose money on the smaller stops. I think that really should be changed.

EDIT: Fixed some typos.

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u/cosmoscrazy — 7 days ago