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Green Potatoes Make You Sick

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  • muckyhandsmikemuckyhandsmike Posts: 239
    I don’t know about green potatoes but I’ve been told as a child not to wear a belt too tight of I’d get diahorroea



  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    Don't put a coin in your mouth or you'll get cankers! still not sure what cankers are but definitely don't put coins in your mouth.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    barry island said:
    Don't put a coin in your mouth or you'll get cankers! still not sure what cankers are but definitely don't put coins in your mouth.
    Mouth ulcers.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My mum used to live her life by old wives tales, inherited from her mother.
    She  would cut every bit of stalk out of cabbage leaves saying if you eat that you would get worms. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Raw cabbage stalk is one of my favourite 'Cook's perks' here @lyn ... along with the stalk from cauliflower and broccoli.  😋

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    And mine Dove,  as I got older I could see that all these things were myths and I would ask her to think logically about them and then tell me why she did them.  She did get out of a lot of those old ways but generations of myths sticks for quite a while.
    she wouldn’t put lids on saucepans boiling veg,   Consequences was water running down the walls from condensation. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The 'lids' thing is really peculiar!
    I think lots of these old wives' tales just stemmed from convenience. Imagine how long she'd have needed to boil that cabbage if it had the stalk on it as well - at least another three hours  :D

    I laughed out loud at your post @muckyhandsmike :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Apparently the reason for this was that if it grows below ground you cover, if it grows above you don’t. 
    I suppose it’s too late now for Christmas sprouts.
    Actually to be fair,  my mum did the best roast ever,  she taught me how to cook, she was never adventurous though and wouldn’t try ‘foreign muck’  as in pasta, yogurt and  other such strange sounding foods.😀

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    The only thing I can think of my mum saying was the well known one about not swimming straight after eating.
    Southampton 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A Chinese person told me that if I ate the pith of a tangerine, I would get a cold. I assume there is a similar hazard with other citrus fruit.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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