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Default Black cartilage in potato

On Jan 30, 12:01*pm, A Moose in Love >
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> On Jan 30, 12:02*pm, "Tom Del Rosso" >
> wrote:
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> > 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?

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> > Reply in group, but if emailing add one more
> > zero, and remove the last word.

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> cancer


Not really, since cancer is your own cells mutated and misbehaving.

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