In message <20050702124019.KXQJ23101.aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com_at_homemaster> "Jane Williams" writes:
>Keith
>> On a tangent, I reckon Gloranthan potatoes should be called
>> "pomme de lune" rather than pomme de terre.
>
>It's an idea. The one thing we do know about them is that Light
>Sons aren't allowed to eat them.
>"May not eat fish, potatos, or raw eggs in any form." (Sun County
>p23). I'd always assumed this was because of the Earth associations,
>myself.
I've always thought of potatos as troll food (eaten raw), the Lunar
army have found a way of cooking them so they are edible by humans
but no one really likes them.
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Donald Oddy
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