All That Meat And No Potatoes

"We follow South American tradition: We eat them on the 29th and put money under our plates, praying it will increase."

ñoquis.

"Sweet Potatoes With Tang, Spice and Sweetness"

Recipe.

'Pink Fir Apple' Potatoes

What's new is what's old.

"[Cause of death:] everything from the end of the Mayan calendar to the second coming and the apocalypse."

Nope - only moldy sweet potatoes.

"On top of that, the fairly low incidence of blight - thanks to all that sunshine - could be a further incentive to go big on spuds in 2011."

Strong demand in 2011.

"Working in ‘tatties’ led to the establishment of the Gowanbank Potato Company, in partnership with Duncan Henderson."

Rest in peace, Alister Wilson.

"This is our generation's Spudnik moment."

Beet... beet... beet...

1. Potato 227 up, 15 down

White people living or travelling in South East Asia.

White ex-pats are often seen as fat, white and inert. Common variants are "fat potato", "stupid potato", "dirty potato" and so on.

Potato was first coined in 2008 by ex-pats living in Vietnam. It was first reference in the Vietnam Times in January 2009, and spread quite quickly throughout Vietnam and is currently becoming pervasive in major ex-pat hubs including Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City. Term has also surfaced in the SE Asian community in Australia.

In Sydney the increased Anglo-Saxon interest in Asian cultures has led to this word being used in a derogatory manner to describe Anglo-Saxon patrons to SE Asian establishments.

Potatospeak is a humorous term used to refer to metaphors which use this slang, including:

Potato Salad - a large gathering of potatoes, usually around hotel swimming pools.

Mashed Potato - amotorbike accident involving at least one potato. Often includes a muffler burn.

Baked Potato - sunburn

Potato Wedge - a poorly executed motorbike manouever

Potato Famine - a potato orders a meal at a local restaurant. On arrival he realises it is completely inedible.

Atkins Diet - a period of time when the potato decides he or she doesn’t want any more potato in his life.

Bubble and Squeak - older potato who has hooked up with a younger, beautiful local girl

Fauxtato - a local person who is sitting in a Hard Rock Cafe.
"We went to this really nice Italian Restaurant in the old quarter of Hanoi, and it was full of potatoes."

"You should have seen the potato salad around the pool at the Sofitel last weekend."

Potatobama

Photobama

"My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here."

Porntato.

"You see, I really have wanted to make it so that people get the idea that these folk, who are eating their potatoes by the light of their little lamp, have tilled the earth themselves with these hands they are putting in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labour and — that they have thus honestly earned their food. I wanted it to give the idea of a wholly different way of life from ours — civilized people. So I certainly don’t want everyone just to admire it or approve of it without knowing why."

-Vincent van Gogh
 to Theo van Gogh
 Thursday, 30 April 1885

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"Standing 6” tall, this player is the perfect size."

The officially licensed Green Bay Packers Mr. Potato Head. Buy it here:

"There are a good deal of vitamins and minerals in potato residues, and it's free of gluten."

"That means that people with celiac disease or gluten intolerance may eat the bread."

"I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's okay, though. I'm still Dad."

"I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows... Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important."

Don't shoot, piano player

"[H]e seemed to be the typical college student and none had witnessed any unusual behavior from him in the past."

"So. I had a big baking potato, a medium-sized beet, and a small sweet potato — "

Bittman is all about pancakes today which is fine - I love my sweet syrupy p-ann-cakes as much as the next guy. But this is a blog with a potato purpose. So I did a quick search and found just what I was looking for: Unbeetable!

"When I first started, there weren't any wild hogs around. And sweet potatoes are like candy to a wild hog."

Sweet potato farms are disappearing in Texas and wild hogs are part of the problem.

Potato Ships

"With cheese or without."

HELLY MACKEREL! (Or: Why I Won't Be Giving This Recipe A Go Even Though It Contains Delicious Potatoes, Love.)

1. The writer has a hyphenated surname
2. His hyphenated surname begins with "Fearnly." (Sorry - Not appetizing)
3. "Start Happy" What kind of Magic Door Candyland Sesame Street syrupy Bosco blech is that?
4. Those slabs of fish still have their skins on them.
5. The writer uses the word "deeply." I hate the adverb "deeply" almost as much as I hate skin left on my fish slabs.

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to manufacture, keep, and bear do-it-yourself potato launchers, shall not be infringed."

It's in the Constitution. Sort of.

(via: chickelit (the commenter))

UPDATE: While you have a Constitutional right to manufacture, keep, and bear do-it-yourself potato launchers, you also have an ethical responsibility to practice due diligence.

The Ross Sisters

"It's the "groovy, movie salad potato, Jack."
(via peter hoh)

"well shut my mouth!!"

Sweet Potatoes
(hat tip: Althouse commenter, Lincolntf)

Leek

Matt and Leann made some pretty good looking Potato Leek Soup yesterday.