# Could I survive on nothing but potatoes and milk?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-survive-on-nothing-but-potatoes-and-milk/781245 "2017-03-02T23:25:20Z")
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### Author: ![cardinal\_fang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal_fang/32/15316_2.png) [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-survive-on-nothing-but-potatoes-and-milk/781245/1 "2017-03-02T23:25:20Z")

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I was reading a recent BBC Future article (Could you survive on just one food?) and was thinking that Cecil had addressed this at some point. Sure enough, the author refers to [the 2008 column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2828/could-i-survive-on-nothing-but-potatoes-and-milk) (about halfway down), with a shoutout to “his assistant” ( **Una** ) to boot. A Scottish dietician interviewd for the article responded to the column’s findings with:  
[QUOTE=Jennie Jackson, _Glasgow Caledonian University_]  
Oh, that’s our diet – that’s the Scottish diet from a hundred years ago. That fits right in. Potatoes, milk, and oatmeal, with some kale in there, too.  
[/QUOTE]  
Well done.