On Jan 30, 11:02*am, "Tom Del Rosso" >
wrote:
> Cutting open a baked potato, I found a long strip of black cartilagenous
> material through the center. *It had a Y-shaped cross section like the
> cartilage on the breast bone of a chicken, and was almost as hard.
>
> This potato had no sprouts of marks on the outside.
>
> What was that?

It was not cartilage, I can tell you that!

John Kuthe...