Potatoes Are Evil...?

I promise, I'll get to my busy week a little later. I'm going to mention this a little bit tomorrow at NewSong, but thought I'd put a bit of it up here.

So here's the interesting piece of knowledge for today. Are potatoes evil? Well, kinda... maybe...

When was the last time you had a potato? Mine was about 3 hours ago, had some tater tots with dinner ("gimme some of your tots"). Potatoes are everywhere in our society. Almost every single fast food place in the world has them (mmm, McDonald's fries...). They are a staple food in any restaurant. The world is in love with potatoes.

For those that don't know the magical history of the potato, here's the short version. People in Peru have been growing them for centuries, thousands of years before Christ. Then, in 1537, Spanish explorer Gonzalo Kimenez de Quesada visited Peru and found them. Good old Gonzo decided to take them home since they were so incredibly easy to grow (no work needed) and people across Europe were starving.

But they didn't catch on right away. Some thought they were poisonous, some confused it with deadly nightshade (A poisonous shrub) and some even thought it caused leprosy. It took scientists telling famous people to promote them to get people to eat potatoes. But you know what one of the main reasons people didn't eat them was?

Potatoes aren't mentioned in the Bible.

There it is, the magic answer that plagues so many things that have been done in the history of man and are still going on. If it's not in the Bible, it must be evil. Can't drive cars, they're not mentioned in the Bible. Don't watch TV, it's not mentioned in the Bible (although I'm sure a little less TV would help us all). So many good things we don't do because we are the ones scared of change, but we mask it in the guise of being obedient to God. He made potatoes, didn't He? Millions of lives were saved because of this little spud.

But don't eat them whatever you do. You can only eat foods mentioned in the Bible. Is there a verse in the Bible that says that...?

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