The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

Flora J. Thompson is fed up and she's not gonna take it anymore.

I will probably have every farmer, fertilizer company and corporation on my neck after this letter. I do not care.


[font=-apple-system]Nowadays, I would rather not eat potatoes. Do not say it is me. I have been peeling spuds for over 65 years and they have changed with the types of potato farming. Do Islanders get the seconds, scrubs, culls or what?[/font]
Heilung4eva wrote:
Flora J. Thompson is fed up and she's not gonna take it anymore.
[font=-apple-system]Do Islanders get the seconds, scrubs, culls or what?[/font]


a bit of spudtacular context: Mrs. Flora J. Thompson is from Prince Edward's Island, Canada's smallest province - but its largest producer of taters.  growing up, PEI was known for exactly two things, and [font=Verdana]two things [/font]only: anne of green gables, and potatoes.  we must heed her words - this is like a old-time marylander waxing on about crab cakes, or a kentuckian putting down the law on bourbon.  RECOGNIZE AUTHORITY.
[font=verdana]All hail our new Potato Head overlords![/font]

[font=verdana]Lindsay Canadian Tire is investigating a glitch that caused every store item to scan as a Mr. Potato Head game earlier this morning.[/font]

Staff at the store [reported that] foul play isn’t suspected as the glitch only impacted a handful of stores, but Canadian Tire’s head office is investigating. No service interruptions are expected for the rest of the day.
Narrator:
We have the technology
We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic Potato


Since 1951, Hancock has been the chief UW experimental facility for potatoes.
Side-vivre wrote:
Narrator:
We have the technology
We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic Potato


Since 1951, Hancock has been the chief UW experimental facility for potatoes.



That’s about the best darn potato-parody lyrics ever

Potato holes
Take me home
To the place
Where i belong
West potato
Starchy mama
Potato hole
Take me home
More potato rage:

And my question is, how old do they think we are? How old do the people who are selling the potatoes think the people who are buying the potatoes are? Do they think we are children? No they don’t. They know children don’t buy raw potatoes.

<a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZIIHKA_mEwYJ:https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/insulting-intelligence-autonomous-potato-buying-adult+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">Nevertheless, they treat us, you and me, autonomous potato-buying adults</a>, as if we were children to be amused, children to be beguiled, children to be tickled, children to be looked down on as credulous manipulable dupes.
challenged wrote:

I'd hit it.
Julian, wrote:
challenged wrote:

I&#039;d hit it.


Hit?
It?
C'mon Jules. Get better.
Also, 22.

challenged wrote:
Also, 22.

Love knows no age
Sadly Arthur Lee died in 2006
No Age was signed to sub pop in 2008

I may have to retract my statement
Maybe Courtney Love knows No Age
Mmmmm.


Heilung4eva wrote:
Mmmmm.



Would NOT hit it.