Victor Sack wrote:
>
> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
> > As I recall, the native people of Peru detoxified
> > their potatoes by coating them with mud and letting
> > the clay draw out the toxins. I suppose once they
> > had potatoes in their diet, progress toward the modern
> > potato would take off from there.
>
> Okay, I've looked it up. I think what you are recalling is eating clay
> along with potatoes, i.e. geophagy, as well as cooking potatoes together
> with clay.

I remember seeing a picture of cut up potatoes
covered with mud, and I thought the mud was to
draw out the toxins, but I suppose it could have
been meant to be eaten with the potatoes as your
sources say.