>Speaking of things made with potatoes, when my brother and I were very young our mom would grate a raw potato and an apple, mix the two and serve it to us. We really enjoyed that!

Probably the apple reacted with the potato somehow. I know eating raw potatoEs (the uppercase E is for Terry - for a moment there I thought that was Brittish-only spelling) was the known recipe for express fever, when you need to legally drop school for a day. Never knew anyone who actually did it, but everyone knew someone who knew someone who did.