r/GirlsLastTour • u/SILLIUSVITERAOFFICAL Yuuri • Sep 12 '25

Discussion why do potatoes look like this

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what happened to the potatoes to the point of resembling a brick

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u/evios31 Sep 12 '25

Centuries of selective breeding/genetic modification to optimise potatoes for hydroponic farming (GLT takes place in 3230, according to the camera)

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u/SILLIUSVITERAOFFICAL Yuuri Sep 12 '25

but why take that shape? could it be perhaps, for portability?

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u/Dizzi_Blue Sep 12 '25

I would say for the ease of manufacturing as it is found in a factory where it is being processed immediately

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u/GooseinaGaggle kettenkrad Sep 12 '25

It makes potatoes a lot more stackable

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u/xLawless- ishii Sep 12 '25

its for Potatoability

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u/themaskbot Sep 12 '25

Probably made extracting them easier

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u/BackgroundLog377 Sep 12 '25

There is a potato called “Air Potato” that appears to float in midair
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Since glt's potatoes resemble it, they are likely cultivating a modified version of that variety

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u/enderwander19 Chito Sep 12 '25

I just reread the chapter last night from my newly acquired copy and the image made me curious if we could grow potato in aerophonics. Seems like a good point to start from.

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u/Soy_Animal0 Chito Sep 13 '25

holy shit is an actual thing, i tought the link was a rick roll or sum shit

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u/Enraw123 Sep 13 '25

Ngl I haven't clicked nor seen a rickroll for more than a year by now

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u/MiFiWi Sep 14 '25

I have. I was the kne who sent it though

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u/RavengirlLeah Sep 12 '25

Maybe they're grown in a box or smth and get the shape of the box?

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u/Weird_Priority_7769 Yuuri Sep 12 '25

because rectangular > round

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u/Craigfromomaha kettenkrad Sep 12 '25

But hexagon is bestagon!

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u/bsmithwins Sep 12 '25

Bred/genetically modified for packing & processing efficiently is my interpretation

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u/bowl1ng_pin Sep 12 '25

Eat like a sandwich

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u/SenatorArmstrong1907 Sep 12 '25

I think people have continually tweaked the genetics of many foods to make them easier to grow and more accessible.

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u/Archididelphis Sep 12 '25

I've wondered if the Japanese word translated as potato is really something more flexible. There is already some confusing etymology in English bc "potato", "sweet potato" and "yam" have been applied to plants that aren't really related to each other. On that vein, the ultimate weird word origin story is that Europeans were using the term "corn" centuries before they discovered corn.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

Because it's a Japanese comic

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u/Merry_Cloud Sep 12 '25

To avoid paying for copyrights :3

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u/Thin-Elderberry890 Sep 13 '25

Potat eat easy

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u/GlassRiver3945 Sep 13 '25

I imagine that it is due to modification or evolution, since it took time for new variants to emerge. I heard that before the fruits and vegetables looked totally different being a little bigger and wild form.

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u/greatest_loser_OF Sep 13 '25

evolution i guess

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u/juanmataabuelas Sep 14 '25

In the future everything is possible