Idaho Potatoes
An Idaho Tall Tale
retold by
S. E. Schlosser
We here in Idaho are right proud of our potatoes. Our fields are so chock full of potatoes that you can hear them grumbling when you stick your ear on the ground. "Roll over, yer crowding me," they say.
Potatoes grow bigger in Idaho than anywhere else. Once, a greenhorn asked me for a hundred pounds of potato. I set him straight real fast. I don't believe in cutting into one of my potatoes. "You buy the whole potato, or you take your business elsewhere," I told him.
Why do our potatoes grow so big? Well, its because we feed them like family. Corn meal and milk every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You should taste my wife's mashed potatoes! They are the creamiest mash potatoes in the whole United States. Its all the milk our potatoes drink while their growing. Makes them so creamy that all my wife needs to do is just boil them and mash them up.
Sometimes, the size of our potatoes creates a problem for the farmers. One fellow I know got trapped for eight hours beneath a potato. His wife came looking for him when he was late to dinner. She had to get the neighbors to help roll it off. But that's just they way it goes when you're farming potatoes in Idaho.
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Wow , this story was kind of weird. Although I'll give it an okay.
Posted by: Maryam Datcher | October 15, 2010 03:15 PM
i would love to eat a Idaho baked potato!!!!! mmm mmm gooooood!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: tia | October 28, 2010 10:10 AM
I think this story is ok, it's a bit funny too
Posted by: Selena Montanio | October 30, 2010 05:11 PM
wow i did not know potatoes could talk!!!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous | December 20, 2010 09:34 AM
what! that a good story for idaho i will go idaho one day and get a potatoes
Posted by: mmmmaja | January 19, 2011 09:25 PM
I live in Idaho our potatoes are amazing. I've honestly never heard of growing them with milk though. Im surrounded my fields but they arrrrre delicious
Posted by: Codey | February 4, 2011 12:44 PM
this is VERY weird!
Posted by: Roc | February 9, 2011 05:37 PM
interesting
Posted by: pie | February 16, 2011 12:54 PM
WOW THAT WAS A WEIRD STORY, BUT THE POTATOES SOUND KINDA GOOD......:;;'??/?./..././!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Brennon | February 24, 2011 12:06 PM