ODE TO THE POTATO
Happy Birthday, Holly Hunter
The potato....the staple of most American homes. It is versatile, tasty, and healthy. What more could a person want from a food? In Ireland it was considered food for the livestock in the 1800's by the English. That is why the Irish were allowed to keep that crop as their own for their food source. It (or the lack of) was the reason most of the Irish are here in the states today. Thousands fled here to avoid starvation. I, for one, are one of those Irishmen to be here for that very reason as my ancestors came here in the mid 1800's.
A toy was even created in honor of the potato...Mr. Potato Head. In 1952, Mr. Potato Head was born, consisting entirely of parts, consumers had to supply the potato. Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on network television. Mrs. Potato Head appeared in 1953, and in 1964 the Potato Heads begin to come with plastic bodies included.
Answer to yesterday's trivia question: If you have a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, what do you have? An ice cream headache
Today's trivia question: What potato chip snacks were introduced in 1969 by Procter & Gamble?
Thought for the Day: Belly building is easier than body building.
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