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  • Golden Wonder : Britain's noisiest crisps : salt & vinegar flavour potato crisps / Nigel Ball Associates Ltd.
  • Five large cacti and a sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) in a tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
  • A red potato-head, representing the artist's father, with purple darts above. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A red potato-head, representing the artist's father, with purple darts above. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Seven leaves of different forms, including dandelion, rose, poppy, nasturtium and potato. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • 6 aloo tikkis : spicy Indian style potato cakes filled with peas, onions and spices / Tesco Stores Ltd.
  • 6 aloo saag bhajias : spicy Indian style snacks made with potato, peas and spinach : 180 g / Tesco Stores Ltd.
  • Sweet potato, red onion and sausage frittata : Summer-style Finest pork sausages : £1.09 per serve : high in protein... / Tesco.
  • Sweet potato, red onion and sausage frittata : Summer-style Finest pork sausages : £1.09 per serve : high in protein... / Tesco.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. Onagraceae. Ozark Sundrops, Bigfruit Evening Primrose. Formerly O. missouriensis. Distribution: South central USA. O. macrocarpa does not appear to have been used medicinally, but other species are so used. Austin (2004) records that O. biennis (Evening Primrose) was used by Native Americans as a potherb in West Virginia. Leaves as salad, roots boiled like potato also infusion to treat obesity and relieve piles (Cherokee)
  • Acanthus spinosus L. Acanthaceae. Bears breeches. Distribution: Southern Europe to Western Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for spiny leaves. Dioscorides recommended the roots applied for inflammation and spasms, and -when drunk- to promote urine, check diarrhoea, and for phthysis, ruptures and convulsions. The leaves are the model for those at the top of Corinthian columns. Tetraglycosides isolated from the plant show cytotoxicity in sea urchin eggs and crown gall tumour on potato disks. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • McHula for mayor / [KP Foods].
  • McHula for mayor / [KP Foods].
  • Would you rather be trimming leeks? / Birds Eye.
  • Would you rather be trimming leeks? / Birds Eye.
  • Pret : we are passionate about food... : Pret passion fact no. 35 / Pret A Manger (Europe) Ltd.
  • Pret : we are passionate about food... : Pret passion fact no. 35 / Pret A Manger (Europe) Ltd.
  • Marmite spéciale pour cuire et servir les pommes de terre : demander la notice : articles de cuisine, poteries, porcelaine / E. Delesport.
  • Marmite spéciale pour cuire et servir les pommes de terre : demander la notice : articles de cuisine, poteries, porcelaine / E. Delesport.
  • SEM Phytophthora spores on rye grass root
  • PeTA recipe cards / PeTA Europe Ltd.
  • PeTA recipe cards / PeTA Europe Ltd.
  • Eight plants, including an orchid, a magnolia and a cactus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • French fry (chip)
  • A physician examines a patient's tongue. Lithograph by Charles Vernier, 1853.