Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

Iirc, some nutritionist a while back did an experiment where they ate only potatoes for X number of days and proved that you can survive indefinitely off of only potatoes. You can also bury a piece of a potato and it willl grow into a potato plant. They're basically an infinite food glitch.

Rice is pretty versatile too. It's just that western countries only use rice as an alternative to mashed potatoes with meat. That's basically the only purpose for rice in the west. Doesn't have to though. Just check what they're doing with rice in Japan.

You're gonna love shrimp.

If my memory serves it was over a year, and the only thing he needed was B12 tablets.

In your face, Neil Armstrong!

I like rice

can you give some examples?

You really have to define what “only potatoes” means, because most potato dishes also have a bunch of other ingredients

potatoes are awesome but you can have a bad harvest

Definitely need some multivitamins too though.

or a blight affecting all of your region's potatoes.

It's from India, not Japan, but biryani is amazing.

Soy is also super versatile with soy sauce, tofu, miso, edamame, tempeh, soy milk, Natto, soybean oil, etc.

looks like just rice but with stuff added to me

maybe I don't understand rice

Rice paper?

It's Japan, so probably some wild kinky shit.

AKA "the English"

"The west" is litterally the greatest Global Village in the world with a bit of everyone from everywhere. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian restaurants abound, and it doesn't stop there. Let's not gatekeep rice like it's some strange mystery.

Sugar Smacks

I mean... yeah. What are you expecting?

A quick search brings up a couple people who have done this (Ireland notwithstanding). I remember this guy doing it, but there are others.

I'd like to note that all staples are staples for the reason of calorie density and utility. Many kinds of crops like heritage corn and wheat can also be eaten almost exclusively if treated correctly.

I dunno man

I'm in a thread where potatoes are praised for their versatility

someone says rice is too

and then it's all just rice with something added to it

The classic Irishman's dilemma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsc51u_2Bb4

Honey Smacks (formerly known as Sugar Smacks, known simply as Smacks in some international markets) is a sweetened puffed wheat breakfast cereal.

The same could be said about corn. It's in fucking everything in some form or fashion.

Food and Drink

• Direct Foods: Sweet corn, popcorn, hominy, grits, cornmeal, corn flour, and tortilla chips.
• Sweeteners: High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn syrup, dextrose, and maltose found in sodas, candies, and baked goods.
• Additives and Thickeners: Cornstarch, maltodextrin, xanthan gum, citric acid, and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) used in sauces, gravies, and processed foods.
• Beverages: Beer, whiskey, and soft drinks.

Animal Feed and Agriculture

• Livestock Diet: The majority of grain corn grown in the U.S. is fed to cattle, pigs, poultry, and dairy cows, producing the meat, milk, and eggs we consume.

Fuel and Industrial Products

• Ethanol: Renewable fuel blended into gasoline.
• Bioplastics: Biodegradable PLA (polylactic acid) used in cups, food containers, and packaging.
• Adhesives & Household Goods: Glues (like Elmer's), envelope gum, drywall mold inhibitors (made with cornstarch), hand soap, and laundry detergents

Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, and Everyday Items

• Medicines and Vitamins: Vitamin C, Vitamin E, aspirin binders, and glucose/dextrose used in IV solutions.
• Personal Care: Toothpaste, diapers, baby powder, shampoo (citric acid), and cosmetics.
• Miscellaneous: Chewing gum (sorbitol/xylitol), crayons, matchsticks, fireworks (as a binder), and toilet paper.

• Rice noodles
• Rice wine
• Rice Pudding
• Rice flour
• Rice starch
• Rice paper (egg spring roll wrappers)
• rice vinegar

::: spoiler How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
Zero
:::

Mochi: Japanese. The steamed rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. Also Koreans do something similar.
Rice noodles: Uncooked rice is ground into flour and then rebuilt into a new shape.
Rice paper: Vietnamese thing. Same idea, different shape.
Puffed rice: Popular in many countries.
Rice crackers: East Asian, cooked rice flour
Arròs negre: Spanish thing, squid ink + rice
Nian gao: Chinese new year cakes
Arancini: Italian rice balls
Appam: South Indian pancakes
Jiuniang: Chinese fermented sweet soup
There are also many alcoholic beverages made of rice.

See also: OMG, there are so many

I married a Filipina. Rice is in the cooker 24/7.

Slime Mold Time Mold did a community trial of the potato diet awhile back

Trial

Four weeks

6 Months

I only grew potatoes once and a fungus got the tops after awhile, yet I still got 5X what I put in the ground with zero watering, fertilizing or even looking at them. I also didn't make a proper mound so I probably could have got 10X.

They're so damned easy I've wondered if most of the cost at the grocery is from transporting all that weight. Corn's the second easiest food I've grown.

During Victorian times, poor people in the north of England were healthier than those in the south, because those in the south ate bread and those in the north ate potatoes. Potatoes have vitamin C, wheat doesn't.

So they're like whippets

Horchata

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMMw0rnKz4

Is that you, Bubba?

Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

Am I a joke to you?

I believe potatoes and cheese ultimately provide all the nutrition the body actually requires for average daily modern life.

Like, you can actually be physically healthy and well by eating nothing else.

Mentally speaking the jury is still out regarding the health of a person who chooses to live on nothing but potatoes and cheese, but daily nutritional requirements are absolutely met.

they also grow more calories per area than most foods, so less land usage!

Ice cream! And it was not made from soy milk.

The same could be said about

• rice
• soy
• corn
• barley, wheat (almost any grain really)

And probably other things I'm not so aware of. Bananas?

Shout out also to tteokbokki.

Maybe I DO need to change my diet to potatoes and salted butter. Really makes ya think

I read a book a while back that actually had a big chunk on this sort of thing. Most people dont realize that for eons people ate the same staple, day in and day out. Very specific deffieciencies came about from what the people in the region ate.

I always forget that is rice based.

Cockroaches of the sea. Delicious cockroaches.

Dogs may be goobers but they aren't spuds and not acceptable foodstuffs either way. Regardless of breed. You monster.