The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

but still, any attempt to enjoin numbers-based logic and our favorite vegetable gets a big spuds up from me.

<a href="https://www.potatonewstoday.com/2022/08/10/cip-usaid-execute-gender-responsive-program-to-promote-expand-potato-sector-in-the-republic-of-georgia/">Intersectionality and the International Potato Industry</a>

Coming soon to a store near you…<a href="https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9454610/nautilus-releases-tatorade-sports-milk-a-natural-potato-based-milk-beverage/">Tatorade!</a>;

<a href="https://twitter.com/deathbybadger/status/1567425842526945280">POTATO</a>;: A one-page RPG

What i want…

https://twitter.com/MusicalChaotic/status/1570567695216832513?t=QrtjRQlSdNg_ilUIZciAVA&s=19

Has this been posted already?



https://jeffswystun.medium.com/this-restaurant-never-existed-and-i-proved-it-9b40b17c4148

My first thought was of a Les Nesman fiasco, but saner heads prevailed.

<a href=https://www.youarecurrent.com/2022/10/14/st-marks-holds-potato-drop/">"St. Mark’s holds potato drop</a>

<a href="https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/man-hit-by-flying-potato-while-riding-escooter-loses-eye/news-story/5408ddaa91994cd2c4120aa20440e33c">Man hit by flying potato while riding e-scooter loses eye</a>
An e-scooter rider’s eye has been surgically removed after a bizarre attack from a flying potato left him permanently injured.


"…the potato was thrown – or potentially “fired” – from a passing car by one of its occupants before it struck the alleged victim in the eye."

^ that is EXACTLY why we need more potato awareness.  this thread is doing god's work.

sweetcell wrote:
we need more potato awareness.&nbsp;

knowledge is power.

sweetcell wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
we need more potato awareness.&nbsp;

knowledge is power.

I might actually make a T-shirt out of that and wear it

siggy-Hatch wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
we need more potato awareness.&nbsp;

knowledge is power.

I might actually make a T-shirt out of that and wear it

I'd buy it.

Man I could eat a potato right about now.

Not to be outdone by the tomatoe soup stans
[German climate change activists splash mashed potatoes on Monet painting

@svdate
Trump, who attempted a coup to remain in power but whose ability to come up with childish nicknames for his rivals apparently still scares Republicans, is reportedly choosing between two for Ron DeSantis:

Potato Boy
Fat Ron

dunno if this qualifies as "in the news", but it's the gawdang truth:

a few weeks ago the fam and i hit up Rainier Nat'l Park.  we got there early to a mostly-deserted parking lot.  i mentally picked out a parking spot and as i got there i found… a single, solitary potato.  just sitting there.  waiting for me to run it over, maybe.  the poor thing has clearly spent the night there, alone, cold.  i could hear it calling to me, "i… neeeeeee…. hot… oil…. or at least a pat of butter and some chives!"

proof:

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sweetcell wrote:
dunno if this qualifies as &quot;in the news&quot;, but it&#039;s the gawdang truth:

a few weeks ago the fam and i hit up Rainier Nat&#039;l Park.&nbsp; we got there early to a mostly-deserted parking lot.&nbsp; i mentally picked out a parking spot and as i got there i found… a single, solitary potato.&nbsp; just sitting there.&nbsp; waiting for me to run it over, maybe.&nbsp; the poor thing has clearly spent the night there, alone, cold.&nbsp; i could hear it calling to me, &quot;i… neeeeeee…. hot… oil…. or at least a pat of butter and some chives!&quot;

proof:

(click to enlarge)

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grateful wrote:
19,999

really?!?  i hadn't noticed, thanks!!!

i'm going to make post #20k something really meaningful… something that will make it into the Poster Hall of Fame… it's going to be the kind of thing that you'll forever remember where you were when you read it.  people will be talking about their lives pre-sweetcell20k, and post-sweetcell20k.

hold on to your hats!  coming soon!!!