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Default Black cartilage in potato

On Jan 30, 11:30*am, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:02:55 -0500, "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?

>
> see herehttp://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/disease/agron/Potato/PoBlHrt.html
> Janet us


There ya go, I told you it was not cartilage!

Thanks Janet! Now we all know. :-)

John Kuthe...