Did you know that when I was little I used to like eating raw spaghetti? No, my parents didn’t starve me.
I also liked raw potatoes. Something about the texture was appealing. My mother would be slicing up potatoes to cook with chicken, and I would grab a few. She’d tell me they were poisonous if I ate too many.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had either raw potatoes or spaghetti. I wonder if I’d still like them? Perhaps tastes really do change with age.
Funny—I loved raw potatoes too… and I got the same “they’re poisonous” line from my mum as well.
Apparently it’s not true though:
http://www.healthypotato.com/nutrition/faq.asp
Wow, next time I need a crunchy uniquely-textured snack: I’m hitting up the starch! Uh, “great minds think alike with regards to taste in eating certain vegetables raw which no one else typically eats that way while also facing similar parental reaction”? That’s a mouthful (of raw potatoes)!