Sunday, April 1, 2012

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Did you know:

74,000 square miles of land is use throughout the world to grow potatoes?
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OrbsCorbs said...

That hardly seems like enough.

I love the French fries and chips. Or baked. Or mashed. Or boiled.

April 1, 2012 at 6:47 AM
kkdither said...

I'm a big fan of the potato. Keep them growing! I believe they can also grow them hydroponically? If land gets too short, can't they also grow them vertically?

April 1, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Toad said...

They grow THOUSANDS of acres of them up here. They have what's called "The Tater Toot" In Almond WI. every year. Almond Is off Interstate 39 near Plainfield. The Interstate has road signs warning of "Low flying spraying airplanes" and "Dust Warning" going across the Interstate when It's dry and windy In the planting season"

April 1, 2012 at 10:51 AM
SER said...

Toad...I have been through there, I remember seeing the signs.

Adams county is another area where they grow lots of spuds in Wisconsin, the soil is very sandy which is good for growing them.

April 1, 2012 at 11:37 AM
SER said...

Couldn't resist adding Mr Potatoe Head

April 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM
legal stranger said...

The history of the potato is rather fasinating, cultivated in Peru at elevations of over 10,00 feet, the potato wasn't noticed by the rest of the world until the 1500's. By the 1800's it was the main staple of the Irish diet. The British knownly introduced a fungus to Ireland to starve the Irish, henceforth the famine of Ireland. The favorite 7 course meal of the Irish is a six/pack and a potato.

April 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Toad said...

SER, As for Adam's County. Nearly the entire County Is Potato fields. The rest Is Taverns and Trees.

April 1, 2012 at 4:33 PM
drewzepmeister said...

We go through a gigantic potato field on the way Up North near the town of Langlade.

April 1, 2012 at 8:53 PM
legal stranger said...

Up North ,Wi. Yup, on 55 at the 2big curves before the megapolis of Hollister on the the way to Up North, not to far south from the second major megapolis of Lily, which is just a little south of up north Pickeral, now you are somewhere up north I think.

April 1, 2012 at 9:49 PM
drewzepmeister said...

Legal Stranger-that is the EXACT route I take to see my folks and my sister! They all live in the Pickeral area. In fact, my sister and her husband own a couple of gas stations in those parts.

April 1, 2012 at 10:29 PM
Toad said...

Drew, If you drive to see them, do they BUY, when you fill up?

I was just thinking? SPUD would be a good name for a dog. Or mayby SPUDDY.

I love taters. Have all of you tried the rather new fingerling taters. Come In different colors, and all you have to do Is sprinkle them with a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and bake for awhile. Yummy.

When my big sister was still alive. We talked for hours on the phone everyday. (she lived In Florida) and I wanted to find a NEW way to used canned potatos. You know. The ones that still taste like the can? My mom was forever serving them to us. Just no way to get that can flavor OUT. I still didn't find a good use for them. Maybe FISH bait?

April 2, 2012 at 9:17 AM
legal stranger said...

Canned potatoes? I am aware of canned potatoes in soups.
Drew, If I admit that I know your relatives, does that make me a Kentuct? And if I am a Kentuct, does that make us relatives? and so on and so on and so on....................I got to stop now before I start telling all the Kentuct and Hillbilly jokes I know.

April 2, 2012 at 12:37 PM
SER said...

You want to have some fun, make a potato gun out of PVP pipe. Spray som hair spray in it and light it with a igniter from a gas grill and away the spud goes, at very high speed....

April 2, 2012 at 12:38 PM
legal stranger said...

Ser. bring your potato gun out to Union Grove. Do you prefer shooting russet or idaho's?
Final net spray or do you have a proprietary spray?

April 2, 2012 at 4:01 PM
drewzepmeister said...

SER, I've got to make me one of these! My neighbors would be so thrilled!

Toad, no...they do have a business to run and I respect that.

Legal Stranger, let me know when the banjos start to play...

April 2, 2012 at 7:49 PM
SER said...

Legal Stranger...yes the tator has a very interesting past.

I would like to try some of the high breeds that are out there. Some that are pink and red and purple inside. Most are sold to top of the line resturants.

April 2, 2012 at 8:16 PM
legal stranger said...

Clever and classic response drew, I am still laughing, I have friends in that area of the woods, so I more than likely know your relatives. Have a few friends on Arbutus, Crane and Pickeral Lake......got to go ,I hear the fiddles...............

April 2, 2012 at 8:22 PM
legal stranger said...

Ser, Bring the taters out here, we have fields to blast away.

April 2, 2012 at 9:08 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

I had a potato gun where you broke of little bits of tater into the barrel and then shot them out. SER's potato gun sounds like a lot more fun. One of us has to make one. And if that works, then we build a watermelon cannon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hdQy1qbYNI (Omg, that thing looks like it could hit low flying planes.)

April 2, 2012 at 9:47 PM
legal stranger said...

Orbs. THAT WAS A CANNON!
Did you see the video of the propane spud gun equipted with a fan?

April 2, 2012 at 10:12 PM
drewzepmeister said...

Legal Stranger-My folks live on Arbutus Lake...I've been going up that way for more 4O years.

April 2, 2012 at 10:33 PM
legal stranger said...

drew, then you know the names like verkuilen, laab, cook, whittaker, zelasoski, erdman, thyssen, huss, bourke, wickert,triber, mudek,did I go around the lake or do you want more.

April 2, 2012 at 10:55 PM
drewzepmeister said...

Most of theses names I'm quite familiar with, Legal Stranger, especially the Erdmans. My folks were quite friendly with Bob. Perhaps we have met before. Without calling myself out, what I can say is that my family and I still own the lot next (and across the street) to the MacPhersons. It's a small world, eh?

April 3, 2012 at 7:55 PM
legal stranger said...

Yeh, I could have put the brothers and wendy in the list, or goldberg, or doc westrack ect. ect. ect. Bobby acquired the house from his parents Al and Mabel, Bobby has Margo living with him, got her from voras old place. Your place is on the small hill north about a 100 feet off of DD. What if I told you I have never been there ?

April 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM
legal stranger said...

Yeh , I think we have met before, I am the only guy who speaks french up in that part of the woods, oh, maybe I eat the french....now I'm really confused. Or was it Clintonville I am thinging of.

April 3, 2012 at 8:18 PM

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