As I was cubing a potato, a stray thought hit me, like a bolt of lightning from the blue

"Has anyone ever pickled a potato"

@ryusei
Potatoes are so starchy that it might not work so well. Plus, raw potatoes are poisonous (I doubt the pickling process will decompose solanine, and pickling cooked potatoes and cooking pickled potatoes both sound awful)

@enkiv2 Yeah, I figured there had to be some reason that a lot of cultures that have equal access to potatoes and turnips and radishes only pickle the latter two

@ryusei
I already dislike tomatoes, so learning about the solanine content in potatoes basically justified limiting nightshade intake in general.

(This probably helps my weight: I convince myself that eating potatoes has a risk of giving me instant neurological damage, and it keeps me from the very real eventual damage to my health that eating too many french fries will produce.)

Eggplant intake doesn't need to be managed because who eats a whole plate of that daily anyhow?