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Taro

  • 06-07-2009 7:50pm
    #1
    Beau
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    I was inter railing and met a New Zealander who claimed that all the rugby lads down there eat this plant called Taro and thats why so many of them are so big. Anyone heard or know anything about it or if you can get it in Europe?


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  • #2
    Will Heffernan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    Beau wrote: »
    I was inter railing and met a New Zealander who claimed that all the rugby lads down there eat this plant called Taro and thats why so many of them are so big. Anyone heard or know anything about it or if you can get it in Europe?
    Trust me when I tell you...the size of Islanders is not down to taro.


  • #3
    Beau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭Beau


    ha cool, I had a feeling he was bsing but just thought I'd find out some more about it.


  • #4
    d'Oracle
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    Beau wrote: »
    I was inter railing and met a New Zealander who claimed that all the rugby lads down there eat this plant called Taro and thats why so many of them are so big. Anyone heard or know anything about it or if you can get it in Europe?

    I believe you can get it, or a relation of it in Europe.
    Indian or asian grocers. I believe it is a close relation of Arrowroot.

    The whole Taro/Talo/Dalo makes you big and strong is a kind of in-joke/Myth of the Island peoples.

    Its basically similar nutritionally to potato.
    High fibre, high energy, very starchy.
    The Bull Hayes is pretty big, doubt he ate much Taro.

    Polynesians are big because of genetics.


  • #5
    Will Heffernan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    Yeah...it hasn't made the Nepalese, Indians or Malaysians excessively jakt!


  • #6
    Hanley
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    Someone told me today that their friend had to stop lifting weights because he developed a heart condition due to protein supplements and creatine. It reminded me of the guy you went interrailing with.


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  • #7
    Roper
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    Well I'm open to correction but wasn't Taro in the islander's diet for a long time, thousand years or so? Could there be an argument that ready access to high calorie food over the generations has given them a predisposition to weight gain? So there could be some vague truth in it, but it's probably bollocks.


  • #8
    Will Heffernan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    Roper wrote: »
    Well I'm open to correction but wasn't Taro in the islander's diet for a long time, thousand years or so? Could there be an argument that ready access to high calorie food over the generations has given them a predisposition to weight gain? So there could be some vague truth in it, but it's probably bollocks.
    Consider yourself corrected then. Because it was actually bought to the south pacific islands by Asian mariners. Who would you rather play out of the following four national rugby teams...Tonga, Fiji, Malaysia or Samoa?


  • #9
    Roper
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    Will Heffernan wrote: »
    Consider yourself corrected then. Because it was actually bought to the south pacific islands by Asian mariners. Who would you rather play out of the following four national rugby teams...Tonga, Fiji, Malaysia or Samoa?
    Pics or GTFO. Didn't the English want it and did one of their "here's some coloured glass, give us that spud" tricks in the 1800s?

    I'd like to play for Malaysia because I could play in the front row.


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