The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

‘Hello Spud!’: How a Conversation About Potatoes Ultimately Led To Devo

https://www.spin.com/2024/11/hello-spud-devo-mark-mothersbaugh-interview/

Casale happened to stumble upon one of Mothersbaugh’s postcards and soon approached him, asking “Are you the guy putting astronauts holding potatoes up around campus? My name’s Jerry Casale. I wondered what your interest in potatoes was.”

From there, they got into a long, philosophical conversation about potatoes, humans, and the hierarchy of vegetables. After all, Mothersbaugh always believed potatoes were the “proletariat vegetable.”

“They come from underground and they’re dirty but on everyone’s plate,” he says. “People ate potatoes every day regardless of where you are on the hierarchy, but they never thought about it. They had eyes all around, so they saw everything going on.

“Both of us come from working-class families, so we thought of ourselves as potatoes. We’d interchange the word ‘spud’ with ‘comrade’ and would use it pejoratively and as a ‘welcome comrade’ type thing. ‘Hello spud!’”

i've just solve all your holiday shopping requirements for the ladies in your life.  guaranteed nookie after you lay these on her.  you're welcome.

Nearly worth it:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAI4UKnOKrT/?igsh=MXhleWxrZ2Z3NDVqdQ==

grateful wrote:
Nearly worth it:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAI4UKnOKrT/?igsh=MXhleWxrZ2Z3NDVqdQ==

are you not a dad?

Ticking off many forum interests with this one

^crusty news, was posted years ago


In new news
Guy make $10k a month mailing out potatoes

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC1tX-3sQTv

Baked potato nativity scene:


https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/yOeTpPoROB

shamelessly lifted from bluesky

^I've got a potato that does the hand jive in the microwave

How To Make Baked Potatoes 10x Better, According to an Expert
It will be the only way you’ll ever bake potatoes again

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/baked-potatoes-10x-better-according-140100241.html

^ which leads to the question: what if you're unhappy because you don' know how to cook potatoes, and you marry someone who does?

sweetcell wrote:
^ which leads to the question: what if you're unhappy because you don' know how to cook potatoes, and you marry someone who does?

Before the internet and church, this was the #1 way people coupled off.

I been eating a lot of gnocchi. The ones from Trader Joe’s are amazingly good, inexpensive and so easy to heat up.

Now when I tried the cauliflower gnocchi  I found myself missing my potatoes.

Julian, wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
^ which leads to the question: what if you're unhappy because you don' know how to cook potatoes, and you marry someone who does?

Before the internet and church, this was the #1 way people coupled off.

so that explains why the Irish were so prolific

hutch wrote:
Now when I tried the cauliflower gnocchi 

Where has hutch gone, this is surely a bot
The hutch I knew would return a steak if there were veggies on the side of the plate

hutch wrote:
I been eating a lot of gnocchi. The ones from Trader Joe’s are amazingly good, inexpensive and so easy to heat up.

Now when I tried the cauliflower gnocchi  I found myself missing my potatoes.

Chickpea or black bean pasta? I can fuck with that. Cauliflower gnocchi? Nah, it's strayed too far from God.

I put off eating them until there were absolutely no other options. I swear!!

I haven’t been able to drive in 53 days so I don’t control what is around.

Delivery groceries are the best thing to happen to sliced bread.

To or since???