The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

Mash

Jacket

fondant potatoes …. They sure look delicious

not only should our diets be potato-based, but so should our humor:

One day Princess Potato came into the throne room and announced to her parents, Queen Potato and King Potato, that she wanted to marry Jim Nantz. Her mother pleaded with her to change her mind, but the princess had her mind set.

With his wife in tears, the King Potato said, “I forbid you from marrying Jim Nantz!”

“But why, Daddy?” the princess asked.

“Because,” said the King, “you're a princess, and he’s just a common ‘tater.”

<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13082641/hilarious-moment-giant-moose-tries-steal-sweet-potato-costco.html">Hilarious moment giant moose tries to steal sweet potatoes from woman's trolly as she loaded her shopping into her car at Anchorage Costco</a>

Do I need to tap the sign that says: sweet potatoes are not potatoes

But sweet headline

‘The worst film ever made’: how Sex Lives of the Potato Men broke British cinema

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/20/the-worst-film-ever-made-how-sex-lives-of-the-potato-men-broke-british-cinema

i really need to quit twitter.  it's not making my life any better.  it's just a cesspool of idiots yelling into the void of their isolated, circle-jerk echo chambers…

… but every now and then, just often enough, i come across shit like this and it almost makes sense.



almost.

Pickles are just unripen potatoes right??

Pickle dunk causes commotion inside South Jersey convenience store

https://www.fox29.com/news/pickle-poacher-causes-commotion-for-south-jersey-convenience-store

Warning Puns galore

Police in Gloucester County had been looking for a pickle-brained prankster who was caught on camera committing a bizarre crime.

It may not have been a big "dill," but police say what happened at the Heritage's store two weeks ago was in fact a crime

If the briny bandit wanted to go viral, well he's going to "relish" this. 

kosmo wrote:
Pickles are just unripen potatoes right??

Can confirm. You have my full support.

kosmo wrote:
Warning Puns galore

it was puntastic!  absolutely punomenal

grateful wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Pickles are just unripen potatoes right??

Can confirm. You have my full support.

how can we expect liberals and conservatives to get along, when we can't even agree on what a pickle is?  we can disagree on opinions, but not on reality…

A pickle is an unripened potato, end of general discussion

<a href="https://www.wavy.com/news/national/its-no-yolk-peta-urges-white-house-to-swap-eggs-for-potatoes-at-easter-egg-roll/">It’s no yolk: PETA urges White House to swap eggs for potatoes at Easter Egg Roll</a>

Now that’s news I can use!

Colorado man died from pet Gila monster’s venomous bite, autopsy shows

Potato is innocent!

Ward’s girlfriend handed over the lizard named Winston and another named Potato to an animal control officer and other officers in the Denver suburb of Lakewood the day after the bite. She told police she had heard something that “didn’t sound right” and entered a room to see Winston latched onto Ward’s hand, according to the animal control officer’s report.