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Certainly enjoy them when you can, a quick internet search of "Australian potato shortage" turns up stories from different sources almost every year for the last few years usually citing extreme weather events as the reason.

I fear in the world when JB's no name antihero who hunts down those who contributed to the climate apocalypse will be doing so in a very hot chip deprived world.

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So the seagulls have been right all along.

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sorry - didnt get past eat hot chips. Anything else is irrelevant. lol

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You never need bonus points to feel morally superior to a vegan.

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There are other effects than those on biodiversity. Apparently the South American locals who used to subsist on the quinoa that they grew now have to import wheat or whatever, because they can't afford to not to sell all they can produce overseas.

But yes, potatoes are great. There's an article in The Conversation today about how the complex starches in potatoes are the best sort of carbohydrate: so difficult and slow to digest that it doesn't cause insulin spiking.

And you can really annoy your vegan friends by following the villain in that John Wick movie, and baking them in duck fat. Really is good...

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Patatje Pinda (chips with Satay sauce) for the win. Never trust an Oat Milk drinker. Warrants this giving a nominal vegan in 3.3 to have a horrible death, sire? ;-)

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I am here for anything that justifies my hot chip addiction

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You’re welcome. That’s one of the exports of the new world. The Inca grew them heavily. Partially because unlike most crops they can stay hidden in the ground . Don’t think they made chips but who knows ? Or fries as we call em . Nothing against vegans but they usually look like they could use a nice med rare steak. Maybe that’s how we unite the world and.....I digress.

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