LETTER

What to do with old potatoes? (Reply to Fred Ryan’s editorial)

 

The answer to the question posed by Fred Ryan is simple… VODKA !

All the world’s best vodka is produced from old potatoes. Perhaps this is a huge resource that the city elders are overlooking?

If the Gatineau municipality gave away free distilling kits instead of rainwater barrels or composting systems, just imagine the benefits to the city: Food waste would be cut and income from liquor licensing could subsidize new parks and services.

Plus, by becoming the moonshine capital of North America, it could boost tourism. Maybe they could even run a bluegrass festival for all the Tennessee rednecks moving into town.

And finding redevelopment space for all those moving in would be no problem with drivers, drunk on homemade hooch regularly culling the surplus population.

It’s a win-win citywide solution – all driven by Fred Ryan’s old potatoes.

Robert Thompsett
Aylmer