Yours truly has a preference for spuds over rice as the dietary "carb." So, you may forgive me for being interested in news about this tuber-kind being potentially feeding the future colonists on planet Mars.
Surely now, our venerable Canadian Broadcasting Service (CBC) would not lie! As the report says "The [potato growing] experiment was conducted in soil in the Atacama Desert in Peru, which is most similar to what is found on Mars."
Clearly, spuds are in and Mars is -- give or take a few million miles -- just around the corner. Is that a wakeup call for the potato-farmers in Idaho in the U.S. and on Prince Edward Island in Canada? Perhaps, the real question ought to be:
