The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

Oh. I forgot about <a href="https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2019/02/french-style-brown-butter-new-potatoes.html">French Brown Butter Potatoes</a>.  That's number one.

covid-potato info

Hot take: Pringles Aren’t Really Potato Chips

Reader's Digest is on the case
https://www.rd.com/food/are-pringles-potato-chips/

President Trump: "We're going after Virginia, with your crazy governor, we're going after Virginia. They want to take your Second Amendment. You know that, right? You'll have nobody guarding your potatoes."

Wait..who exactly was guarding them?

Oh fuck. Julian’s America’s #1 source of capital has been Virginian potato graft for years. We’re fucked.

Heilung4eva you were really the pioneer in the Potato-mania
Until you brought it up no one was talking about it
Now everyone, including the POTUS is talking about Potatoes

Ok, I have an ask, I want to see a graph of the amount of Potato Memes before your thread and now
I gotta imagine it looks like this

You see the spike in 92 when QuayleGate happened



Speaking of…We Tracked Down The Kid Vice President Dan Quayle Made Misspell “Potato”  (ok this was written last year)

Heilung has owned the first half of the year and at this point has to be odds on favorite to pick up Boardie of the Year honors

It’s a shame the Awards Ceremony will probably have to be a zoom meeting this year as the Julian Roast is always great and I enjoy seeing boardies with their dates (mostly)

hutch wrote:
the Julian Roast is always great

The one upside to concerts probably being kaput for 2020 is this is likely the year Taylor Swift finally attends and gives me a good tongue lashing.

*checks reference materials*

now the WaPo is on board
…or maybe your pseudonym is Alexandra Petri
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/20/i-am-simple-potato-guardian-who-needs-my-second-amendment-rights/

I am a potato guardian. This is the only life I have known. Here is my tale, one no doubt familiar to you, just as the concept of a person who guards potatoes in Virginia is familiar.

When potatoes attack:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAibh7oge_s/

^fake news

here I was excited about some spud related tidbit and that's what I get
you should be ashamed


I mean the big news of the day was out of South Australia

Thomas Foods fresh potato business sells to Mitolo Family Farms
Following an agreement to purchase Thomas Foods International’s fresh potato business, Mitolo Family Farms is set to strengthen its grip on Australia’s potato industry.


Don't mess with the Mitolo family (potato crime syndicate) grip…there will be consequences

trump keeping potatoes in the news!

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
OBAMAGATE MAKES WATERGATE LOOK LIKE SMALL POTATOES!


I LOVE small potatoes, does this mean I should also like Watergate too? (at least visually)

Pulitzer wrote:
trump keeping potatoes in the news!

see, this is why we need to see trump's taxes.  the way that he has been hyping spuds recently makes me think he's under the thumb of Big Potato (or is that Baked Potato?  same thing).  how can we expect him to lead the nation when he's only got tubers on his mind?

Pulitzer wrote:
I LOVE small potatoes

#fingerlingsarenotpotatoes

sweetcell wrote:

Pulitzer wrote:
trump keeping potatoes in the news!

see, this is why we need to see trump&#039;s taxes.&nbsp; the way that he has been hyping spuds recently makes me think he&#039;s under the thumb of Big Potato (or is that Baked Potato?&nbsp; same thing).&nbsp; how can we expect him to lead the nation when he&#039;s only got tubers on his mind?

Fun fact: Trump's favorite small potato: The Russian Banana  (just for the record, this is not a Banana or in the Banana family)

Although I have been hearing that we need to Liberate the public schools as those crazy libs are now trying to ban the game Hot Potato!

Pulitzer wrote:
I LOVE small potatoes

#fingerlingsarenotpotatoes

Watch it….some of my best friends are small potatoes!  unlike those SWEET posures

There was some big potato news over the weekend

Potato Commission to give away 100,000 spuds in Thurston County on Tuesday

Potato Europe 2020 cancelled

"Uncertainties surrounding the exceptional health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic force us to cancel Potato Europe 2020 in order to protect the event's visitors and exhibitors. The next edition of Potato Europe cycle will take place in September 2021 in the Netherlands.

Potato Europe had been planning numerous dynamic demonstrations, technical workshops and conferences. Four hundred exhibitors were preparing to welcome 15,000 visitors, one third of whom were expected to come from abroad."

https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9221600/potato-europe-2020-cancelled/

Heilung4eva wrote:
Potato Europe 2020 canceled

Are you fucking kidding me
I heard Villers-Saint-Christophe, France is just spectacular in September and planned a whole week around this event
I'm crushed (or mashed as my 'spudies' say)

I'm not exactly sure what goes on at Potato Europe, but video from last year clearly shows a can of ASS proudly on exhibit (forward to 1:00).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQkCEbJsoU

Jez Heilung, don't know you know the rulz
"What happens in Potato Europe, stays in Potato Europe!"
All Eyes are on you!