Saudi potatoes or Chinese potatoes, a shopping dilemma.

[Great Librarian]

Dust bowls can grow potatoes?

I prefer Canadian potatoes. Who the hell is faced with buying potatoes shipped from either China or Saudi Arabia? These better be Mr. Potato Head potatoes.

 

[Yoda Power]

The Saudi ones since I assume they are fresher.

 

[Bill3000]

Saudi Arabia farms!?

 

[Sidhe]

All of them, I don't usually check where my potatoes come from.

 

[bhsup]

Since you said "Chinese" and not "evil PRC oppressors", I'll assume the potatoes are from Taiwan and buy those.

 

[TheLastOne36]

It's just potatoes

Never say that infront of a Pole

 

[Sims2789]

I wouldn't be able to wear American flag lapel pins if I boycotted Chinese goods.

 

[Cutlass]

China sucks. Saudi Arabia sucks more

 

[JohnRM]

I'd be far more likely to dig a hole and grow my own.

 

[Narz]

The Saudi ones, as they were probably fresher.

Agreed. And a smaller carbon footprint also.

Neither, I would just buy a head of lettuce. Too much starch in Potatoes.

So I take it you don't eat grains either.

 

[Narz]

Dust bowls can grow potatoes?

I prefer Canadian potatoes. Who the hell is faced with buying potatoes shipped from either China or Saudi Arabia?

The thread starter lives in Dubai.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

I try to support local products when I can. Saudi potatoes.

 

[Cutlass]

Agreed. And a smaller carbon footprint also.


So I take it you don't eat grains either.

Doesn't Saudi Arabia get much of its fresh water from desalination plants that burn oil?

 

[Marla_Singer]

Politically speaking, I'm not really fond of the Dubai government in the first place. I have heard quite dirty thing about their Southern Asian workers. But anyway, it's another example of autocratic state being economically successful... so I guess I have nothing to say about it considering France's economy isn't really something to be proud of.

 

[Dubai Vol]

Politically speaking, I'm not really fond of the Dubai government in the first place. I have heard quite dirty thing about their Southern Asian workers. But anyway, it's another example of autocratic state being economically successful... so I guess I have nothing to say about it considering France's economy isn't really something to be proud of.

merci pour votre silence!

Et bienvenue, vraiment!

 

[Narz]

Doesn't Saudi Arabia get much of its fresh water from desalination plants that burn oil?

Maybe. The Arabia population in general is perhaps the most overshot of anywhere on the planet. I wouldn't be surprised if 2075 found less than 10% of the current population in that area.

But I'd still choose the Saudi potato over the Chinese one though I suppose the ecofootrprint might be about the same with your info in mind.

 

[Dubai Vol]

Doesn't Saudi Arabia get much of its fresh water from desalination plants that burn oil?

Yes, (just like Dubai) but that water is for city dwellers' use; the agriculture

The Kingdom not only produces 830,000 tonnes of dates a year but is also self sufficient in crops such as wheat while it also sells dairy products, vegetables, eggs, fish and poultry to other Middle East markets.

Since the early 1970s the amount of arable land has grown from 150,000 hectares to more than 2 million hectares through methods such as centre pivot irrigation that draws underground water as well as an extensive dam building programme to retain rainfall.

http://www.ameinfo.com/100371.html

is using groundwater, which, if it's like Dubai (a fair guess) took thousands of years to build up and is being depleted rapidly and shipped out in potatoes.

As I said, Dubai is doing the same, including the dam building, and grows similarly water-intensive crops like onions. The environmental impact will be felt when the underground aquifers dry up....

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

If it's not from Idaho, it's not a potato.

You spelled Prince Edward Island wrong. You accidentally wrote Idaho instead. Thought I would correct your mistake.

 

[TheLastOne36]

You spelled Prince Edward Island wrong. You accidentally wrote Idaho instead. Thought I would correct your mistake.

Bah, the real potatoes are all from Poland.