The Potato Thread: Potatoes in the News

Isn't there a thread for this?

Was hoping to find some Courtney love/potato content…but found this instead by Courtney Casto
The Day I Stopped Eating Potatoes

i'm ashamed of you lot, and myself.  we're now on page 11 and we haven't mentioned the modern-day patron saint of potatoes, Penn Jillette.

article: How Magician Penn Jillette Lost 100 Pounds on the Potato Diet

video: How Penn Jillette Lost over 100 Lbs and Still Eats Whatever He Wants | Big Think

i recommend watching the vid.

<a href="https://www.postregister.com/farmandranch/crops/potatoes/big-idaho-potato-truck-tour-temporarily-suspended/article_6eaa1ecb-086d-5029-bb27-5d9e10a00bf9.html">The Idaho Potato Commission's Tater Team has temporarily suspended its Big Idaho Potato Truck’s cross-country tour due to the COVID-19 crisis.</a>

The 6-ton replica Russet Burbank on a flat-bed truck typically travels the nation, attending events to raise awareness about Idaho potatoes.

We're truly only at the beginning of the precipitous decline in American citizens' awareness of the Idaho potato. How soon will we forget?

And so the rhetoric begins.

<a href="https://www.lebanondemocrat.com/portland/who-ever-heard-of-a-maine-potato/article_16ff5d7f-b136-50d1-9c32-676987210773.html">"Who ever heard of a Maine potato?"</a>, ironically in "The Portland Leader", from Portland, Tennessee.

https://www.anonymouspotato.com/
Anonymous Potato - Send A Potato Message

Send a Potato to anyone in the USA Anonymously! It is the new Potato Mail! Anonymous Potato is the Hottest Gag Gift on the Market.






Wow, they even have an affiliate program!  Make your cut on anonymous potato sales
https://www.anonymouspotato.com/pages/become-an-affiliate

When I hit 20K, I will personally deliver to each one of you a bag of Beef Tongue and Lemon Potato Chips.

https://www.calbee.co.jp/en/products/select/?cid=2

ok…possibly NSFW…but who the heck is behind a corporate firewall these days :)

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Freedom Fries…what are you a commie!

<a href="https://mb.com.ph/2016/12/28/3800-year-old-potato-garden-discovered-in-canada/">3,800-year-old potato garden discovered in Canada</a>

Ancient spuds recently dug up on Canada’s Pacific coast are blackened and surely unedible, but are the first proof, say researchers, that North American natives tended gardens at least 3,800 years ago.

Could have x-posted in the pot thread

Famous potato chip company issues apology as ex-director gets busted for growing over $30K worth of weed

After reading online reports of the chips’ abnormally overwhelming odor, curiosity got the best of him and he just had to purchase a pack. He was perversely delighted to discover that they indeed live up to their reputation–perhaps even exceed it.

Yuichiro could only describe the initial opening of the pouch as an all-out assault on his nasal cavity. He likened this kind of sensory punch to a fisherman about to be wrenched from his position by a biting marlin.

Comparing other varieties of garlic-flavored chips to a small poke in the mouth, these Muji chips were like getting clocked in the kisser with an avalanche of bricks.

All of that is to say that the chips were really, incredibly, inconceivably smelly. It’s probably best if you don’t open a bag at work or before meeting someone.

https://soranews24.com/2020/07/14/mujis-garlic-sauce-potato-chips-are-perfectly-pungent-enough-to-warrant-an-investigation/

I guess you don't mess with potato chips in Will County East Townships:

CRIMINAL DAMAGE: Adrian Richardson, 38, of the 1100 block of Abbott Lane, University Park, was arrested and accused of criminal damage to property after arguing with an employee and then stomping on multiple bags of potato chips at BP Crete, 24524 S. Western Ave., on June 27, police said.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-police-blotter-st-0716-20200714-aehdeskv3fgblatpjesarejxeq-story.html

so are we all going to start boycotting taco bell~
All potato items!