The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=opqGaHTRbZ8&feature=emb_logo">Rasa Syok, Rangup Giler!</a>

Heilung4eva wrote:
And now there is an international competition to be crowned the Potato Photographer of the Year.

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/potato-photographer-of-the-year-is-now-open-for-entries
https://www.photocrowd.com/photo-competitions/photography-awards/potatopoty-2020/

<a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/restaurants/potato-photographer-of-the-year-2020-prize-winner-martin-parr-a4438371.html">The winner has been crowned!</a>

Heilung4eva wrote:

Heilung4eva wrote:
And now there is an international competition to be crowned the Potato Photographer of the Year.

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/potato-photographer-of-the-year-is-now-open-for-entries
https://www.photocrowd.com/photo-competitions/photography-awards/potatopoty-2020/

&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/restaurants/potato-photographer-of-the-year-2020-prize-winner-martin-parr-a4438371.html&quot;&gt;The winner has been crowned!&lt;/a&gt;

The judges have my approval…great pic

The story of the sordid life of a practicing pototarian

https://www.momspresso.com/parenting/my-experience-in-journey/article/potatarians-and-adjustable-potato-in-my-family

"My dad, without any other options, picked up the bowl of mashed potatoes and dumped it on Donald's head … He's actually never gotten over it."

@MaryLTrump explains the 'Mashed Potato story' involving Trump.

You guys - "Meat and Potatoes" crime is a real thing.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/meat-potatoes-battery-675291

National Potato Day will be celebrated in Lethbridge on Aug. 19 during Whoop-Up Days at Exhibition Park. The festival includes:

[li]Whoop-Up Days Spirit Week Community Decorating Contest (use #WHOOPITUP for bonus points)[/li]
[li]A pun-friendly potato recipe contest #CouchPotatoFoodFest[/li]
[li]A National Potato Day drive-thru potato hut, featuring &quot;Gourmet style signature stuffed potato (or twice baked) with a variety of topping add-ons.&nbsp; The base potato is topped with sweet peas, pinto beans and lentils, neapolitan style. Toppings will be added at drive thru window upon request – similar to a hot dog stand[/li]

via Prestige Magazine

[Ronald] Akili wanted a place where tourists could interact with local creatives and the wider community, setting an acclaimed New York contemporary art museum as a benchmark: “Imagine MoMA PS1, but with [guest] rooms. That was the brief.” The result is Potato Head Studios, the latest and largest addition to the Seminyak complex, a “creative village” now known as Desa Potato Head (desa means “village” in Indonesian).

Czech potato farmer develops one-of-a-kind vending machine

[font=Verdana]The vending machine lets people insert coins and to buy fresh potatoes[/font][font=Verdana], according to Viktor Kopa?ka, the company’s director. The varieties of potatoes available at the vending machine will change over time, depending on what’s in season. Right now, the machine sells the Suzan variety of potatoes, and soon they will have Magda potatoes and also other varieties, according to what is harvested at the time on the farm.[/font]

[font=Verdana]He hopes people come to taste their potatoes and find them delicious. Most potatoes available in stores are not, in fact, grown in Czech Republic.[/font]

I am too lazy, as stated before, to research through this thread . . . 14 pages of a "potato thread?"  Really?  Have you ever had salt potatoes?  Maybe even I have posted this before in this thread.  We had them last night again, and they are so such a divine food of the I don't know what.  You can use smaller red potatoes but it is best to use a bag of 'classic medley petite potatoes.'  Google the rest, for you have to use a fuck ton of salt in the water you boil the taters in.  The best.  With slaps of butter and light Himalayan salt and pepper.  Dear lord.  Take me, Jesus.

^ you forgot the dill.  the eastern european in me cannot fathom having salty, buttered potatoes without a little fresh dill in the mix.  i don't care if it's not traditional.

“A lot of people are very unkind about our potato,” says owner Heather (whose last name is Tate) ((!!!!!!!!!!!)). “A lot of people suggest that it would be better to wheel it down and stick it behind The Big Merino because it resembles some sort of dropping.”

But no shit, when Lewis sees something that’s big and long and brown, it makes him think of one thing and one thing only. “And that’s a big gnocchi,” Hobba tells Heather.

So he put it to her: “My idea is that you already have a Big Gnoccho, you just didn’t know it.”

How Hobba and Hing got The Big Potato to change its name

Heilung4eva wrote:

Hoshino Resort Tomamu in Hokkaido is playing into Japan’s penchant for weird food combos by offering a peculiar treat for guests this autumn – [font=Verdana]potato salad gelato.[/font]

will they have a varition with rasins?

Randomly placed bowls of <a href="https://theprovince.com/news/world/mississippi-city-terrorized-by-bowls-of-mashed-potatoes/wcm/42107ea3-56c8-4a18-919a-efe661d91e97">mashed potatoes are terrorizing residents</a> in a Jackson, Mississippi neighbourhood after several locals found bowls of the white goop nestled in mailboxes and cars.

potato-based terrorism… i can't take 2020 anymore.

Your Potato-terriost is my Potato-Fredom-Fighter

In an early celebration of National Potato Day, Inked Magazine features 38 of the hottest Potato Tattoos on the planet.

https://www.inkedmag.com/original-news/potato