Must be because I keep my carbs pretty low otherwise-just by avoiding anything starchy and sugary, and because I’m not really eating that much potatoe… maybe all the butter and sour cream helps dampen the effects of the pototoe starch too, who knows?

anway, I’ve always loved the taste of a baked potatoe, and I’ve found I can get away with the occaisional indulgence!

Potatoes are indeed certainly not vegetables, but instead, tubers of the nightshade variety. And they certainly are not healthy on any diet. In fact the standard nonsense from know-nothing “experts” like dietitians is that “they are so healthy because of the vitamins”. That’s a load of you-know-what.

- First of all the vast majority of those vitamins are directly under the skin and are removed in the cleaning and peeling process.

- Second, after boiling or frying the bloody thing most of the remaining vitamins are completely destroyed and worthless.

- Third, the quality of the fibers is extremely low (like cooked carrots) and hence also worthless.

- Finally, one sure doesn’t need the tons of starch (sugar!) that a potato contains.

These things are simply bad news on any diet. Interesting sideline here is the fact that when potatos were introduced in Europe, centuries ago, the French did not like them at all and considered them not suited for human consumption. These were fed to the pigs to fatten them, which works beautifully of course because the pigs metabolism does exactly the same as the human metabolism in this respect and stores the starch (sugars) as fat.

Only after a series of serious famines struck the nation the French were forced to eat the things. But they never held them in high esteem and they still don’t. Personally, I never liked potatoes (I always hated boiled potatos the most) and I sure don’t miss them.