I’m creating a brand new category for this post and I’m calling it:
‘What the F#@k?!’
Apparently when the Chinese aren’t too busy sending missiles into space to destroy satellites/create space debris they do like to mutate the occasional vegetable seed with cosmic radiation. One of these seed mutating missions brought back a potato seed from space that has been successfully grown to produce a purple potato.
I shit you not.
From fitsugar.com:
Apparently they are all the rage in Shanghai. Slightly sweet and purple in color, they are known as the Purple Orchid Three.
The Chinese space program claims that they have produced other fruits and veggies from other seeds that have been exposed to radiation, capsule pressure, and weightlessness.
From yumsugar.com
Last year China’s second manned space mission (shown during take off) included many plant experiments. During the five day flight, some onboard sweet potato seeds mutated. When they returned to Earth they were planted on the beaches of southern Hainan Island. The end result? A purple potato (dubbed “Purple Orchid III”) that tastes and smells the same as its Earth brethren, but is more “glutinous.”
Want more? Here’s a CNN article.
I tend to agree with the author of the yumsugar article who says this all sounds a little bit too much like ‘the plot to a rather bad B horror film’. A better name for this potato might be “Purple Orchid III: The Reckoning”.
Thanks AndyP for the heads up on this.
Disposition: complete indifference
Should tie it in with the FFry quote: “Trendy Shanghai restaurants are serving French fries and other foods made with purple mutant space potatoes.”
I actually wonder about all the other things they mutated but haven’t yet filtered down to the trendy Shanghai restaurants…..hmmm….
I wish I could say I knew this already but apparently blue, red, and purple varieties of potato exist right here on earth without the need for outer space mutation.
http://www.deliciousorganics.com/recipes/potatoes.htm
So my question is, were these mutant chinese potatoes already purple? The feeling I get from the various articles on the subject is that the mutation made them a more deeper purple than the non mutated version. Hmmm.
all I can say is
Big Purple YAY
lucky for us.
Why potatoes? Why not rice? Or is it too sacred to the Chinese? Now purple rice…that’d be cool. Or multicoloured…every grain a different colour.
But the french fries are still the same colour, right?
G.
It is very interesting. May be animals including humens seeds can also be processed in the same way.
It is said that during Treta yug and Dwapara yug size of humen beings were very huge. I think during that period earths atmosphere was suitable to produce such size of animals.