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Sentence #909066

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 Objectivesea Objectivesea September 15, 2014 September 15, 2014 at 5:23:51 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Unless this is meant to be funny, "terracotta potatoes" has no meaning to me. It is trivially true that an object made of baked clay is not easily digestible, but neither are the Elgin Marbles or the statue of David in Florence.

Is it possible that Scott meant, for example, "baked potatoes"? I don't know about the relative digestibility of boiled versus baked potatoes, but it is at least imaginable that the skins become somewhat toughened in the baking process and may thereby contribute a bit more fibre to the diet.

Objectivesea Objectivesea September 15, 2014 September 15, 2014 at 5:26:31 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Oops. I see this is in fact a French pun by Alphonse Allais. It loses something in the translation to English.

Scott Scott December 25, 2014 December 25, 2014 at 12:47:27 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Yes, that's what it is

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #909036Les pommes de terre cuites sont tellement plus faciles à digérer que les pommes en terre cuite..

Boiled potatoes are much easier to digest than terracotta potatoes.

added by Scott, May 25, 2011
➜ #909036Les pommes de terre cuites sont tellement plus faciles à digérer que les pommes en terre cuite.

linked by Scott, May 25, 2011
➜ #2603372البطاطا المسلوقة أسهل هضما بكثير من بطاطا التراكوتا.

linked by Samer, July 19, 2013