Posted on 08/10/2025 4:54:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
All potatoes are not created equally, a massive new study has found — especially when it comes to the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that eating just three servings of french fries per week was associated with a 20% higher risk of developing T2D.
Baked, boiled or mashed potatoes, however, were not linked to an increased risk. …
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First rule of eating: if you enjoy it, it’s bad for you.
All things in moderation, control yourself. I love fries , I really love fried chicken. I don’t eat it every week. It’s an occasional treat.
I can’t put my fingerling on it.
You can have my Freedom Fries when you pry them out of my cold, greasy, dead fingers.
All potatoes are from Peru. Modern potatoes are the result of a natural crossbreeding between a tomato and a potato-like plant.
Chicken fried chicken livers and biscuits and gravy. Side of tomatoes and okra. I’m goood.
Bkmk
DO NOT take my duck fat fried french fries away from me
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Yeah they are called night shades. You gotta piss on everything?
Exercise? I thought you said extra fries.
If you are eating boiled potatoes you are likely eating at home.
Baked and mashed are also generally home food.
If you are eating out likely you are also drinking soda and skipping the salad.
You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy fries, and that’s close enough!
You can air fry them, lit some spices on that you like.
Another great thread.
Just froze 3 pkgs of sweet potato fries from the local barbecue joint. One of the little pleasures that make life worth living.
“All potatoes are not created equally, a massive new study has found”
If they have equal carbs, then they are equally harmful. NOTHING else matters (other than the oil they’re cooked in).
The last post I went to made me crave bacon, and I had none. Now, I crave duck fat, and have none.
Be still my heart!
There’s a hole-in-the-wall barbeque joint in Fort Payne, Alabama that makes the best fried potatoes - they are thin slices that are breaded and fried. If I could figure out how to make them I would eat them a lot, but I can’t seem to make the breading stick. I don’t know what kind of potatoes they use, nor what the breading is, nor what oil they use - so I’m just guessing blind.
Seed oil is the culprit.
Rapeseed oil, renamed canola....It was a cheap oil used for machines, until the started feeding it to us becuase it’s the cheapest oil you can get.
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