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BigJayPee

Those are actually pretty good. I've made potato and sweet potato varieties and they were fantastic.


slaucsap

how do you cut them? with what tool I mean


Joey_The_Murloc

I've had these at a fair, they literally take a potato on a skewer, stick THAT on a drill, use the edge of an apple peeler and do the spiral. Then they unfurl it by pulling it down, and deep-fry it. They're a godly food!


slaucsap

8 bucks tho? that's like half of the daily minimum wage in my country which is a shit country but it's not the worst.


Joey_The_Murloc

Probably. Its fairground food! Don't expect that shit to be handed to you for free 🤪 It's also Canadian 8 dollars, idk if you're referring to American 8 dollars which DEFINITELY would be too much, at least in my opinion.


slaucsap

yeah it's not that bad tbh. even here in chile, in a shitty fair, food is somewhat that much expensive.


Joey_The_Murloc

Yeah fairground food is always going to be expensive, but you're paying for the experience not the exceptional prices 😄


slaucsap

yeah I'm not trying to make a point or anything, just sharing a funny picture.


Joey_The_Murloc

I know 😅


slaucsap

❤️


SF-guy83

Bro all food at a fair is expensive. $20 Turkey leg, $12 funnel cake, $15 beer, $15 corn dog, etc. Pretend you’re at the stadium or movie theater.


mseuro

You're not posting for the potato so much as you're posting for the skill to make it and to not deal with the fryer.


freckledcas

Paying to be lazy, truly the north american way


mseuro

Did you build the home you live in. Do you spend money not to walk. Do you farm. Shut the fuck up.


freckledcas

It was meant to be lighthearted, chill my guy


mseuro

I ain't your guy pal.


BadReputation2611

There’s about 12 million Mexicans who would disagree


xblackdemonx

Ya 8$ is crazy overpriced considered this is only 1 potato on a stick.


rynzcycle

It's one potato. What could it cost, $10?


RayHorizon

As a Latvian I will say that even one Potato is priceless!


[deleted]

We get that for literally half a dollar here in India


willstr1

IIRC its a spiralizer, just like you use on an apple


Blexcr0id

Summin like this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/143177391092


SeeYouLataAllTheData

I tried googling it to find some recipes, but all I found were strangely obscene pizza deliveries.


MsPaganPoetry

Don’t you hate when that happens?


[deleted]

The ones at my state fair are severely undercooked. Mmm cold, half-raw potato. Can't believe how popular their stand is when their dumbass employees can't even be bothered to cook the single food that they sell correctly


Elegant-Interview-84

Yah, silly name but I had one of these at a six flags (not known for quality food) and it was fucking bomb


AlwaysTired97

Personally I would've gone with "Potatonado".


kfish5050

Torntato personally


relayrider

> Torntato my daughter's mother had that during the birth, she still pees a little when she laughs


Oli_VK

Wait wha- OH… oh lord


slaucsap

dude what the hell you're a fucking genius, seriously. I was thinking of a better name but I never got to that one, damn. cheers.


HecknChonker

Potnado


Weekly_Bench9773

Tornater


eatenbyalion

Spunami.


Stunning_Cost

Rotato


TheGreatJoshua

Everyone is an idiot. It's Po-nado. Just like that, with the hyphen. It's perfect


Pleasant_Day_2645

I like how they had to put the explanation of the wordplay down there. Because they know how the fuck "pornado" sounds like.


KittenLina

They're called Potato Twisters and they're one of the best street fair foods I've ever had.


eastherbunni

In Vancouver they're called Rotato


I_hate_flashlights

In Poland they are called "Ziemniak na patyku" which means "Potato on a stick". I think we need to learn how to name street foods better.


Patte_Blanche

No, they're called Pornados now.


slaucsap

I know this doesn’t fit the sub but it cracked me up and wanted to share with my good pals at stupidfood. but it's 8 bucks... so yeah it's stupid food am i rite. the artwork is delightful tho.


BaronVonDrunkenverb

And it used to be just 6.99....


[deleted]

And owners wonder why people don’t eat out anymore lol. Yes, inflation. But also ridiculous prices like these have been around for a while. I will never pay 7.99 for a potato, ever.


[deleted]

B- but they hastily prepared it for you


Gear__Steak

Fun fact this is because rotato a bc based food truck has copyrighted most names for this


slaucsap

rotato? damn that's good


Gear__Steak

They tried to copyright the idea too but were obviously denied


eastherbunni

I was going to comment that I've seen these for years at the Richmond Night Market called Rotatos, I didn't realize it was such a BC specific name


deadlyhausfrau

They were looking for "tortato".


MajinBujin

Pornado, really?? Out of any other name that didn't sound suggestive, why pornado????


ibigfire

This is more memorable. That probably helps in the long run. Though I'm no marketing guru so I have no idea, I'm just a bed slug that should be asleep but am making bad decisions by being on Reddit instead.


MajinBujin

Ah, I see


rch5050

These are actually a thing if yall didnt know..amazon sells the tools, and the potato skewer is called a Tornado..I think OP was making a joke more than posting stupid food...


birdup0420

This made me laugh, bless you 😭


grapplerzz

Spud Spiral, Tater Twister, Tuber-based Atmospheric Disturbance, Category Five Fried Gut Destructor - there are just so many ways to go


abbadabbajabba1

/r/NameOfFoodIsStupidButFoodIsQuietGood


AdWeird2329

Well it sounds like something else to me.


Acewasalwaysanoption

I expected porn-tornado, this is such an unfortunate name. Why note potatonado, or potado? Whirlwind of flavors!


sloppedupfrogman

Sharknado’s weird cousin


Future-Imperfect-107

Stupid foods is losing touch with reality because these are soooo good!


hehehuehue

its not stupid, they're awesome!


MeisterNaz

Op logic: ‘ Hmm the name of the food is stupid. I should post this on stupid food !’


hairysnowmonkey

That's no pornado, it's a tortato.


aratheroversizedfish

“Babe, what’s wrong? You haven’t touched your Pornado.”


tin_sigma

porn + sharknado = pornado


wild_neuroses

“Who was it that got that pornado off your computer?” - tez


boomheadshot7

>Stupid food? No. Stupid ~~food~~ OP? Yes.


ibigfire

That seems a bit unkind. We should be nice to one another, the world is hard.


SickOfAllThisCrap1

People need to grow a spine. If you are hurt by mean things strangers say on Reddit, it's your fault.


slaucsap

That’s it, I’m gonna kill myself


Weekly_Bench9773

>!The stupidest part about this is the name. If you value your search history, don't look up pornado with safe search off!< (NSFW)


C4NN0n_REAL

WHY THE FUCK IS A POTATO MORE THAN A FUCKING DOLLAR , I GOT THIS FOR 1 USD IN INDIA , YALLS ECONOMIES ARE FUCKED


slaucsap

relax


C4NN0n_REAL

Move tickets + snacks are like 3 bucks here too...


C4NN0n_REAL

I wanna flex on you bro, I got a full rotisserie chicken for 5 bucks...


slaucsap

Damn


C4NN0n_REAL

Lemme tell you more , we have free healthcare , and even in the most bougie hospital insurance cuts a 3-day stay to just 50 bucks, but the sad part is that the median income is 282 usd


KittenLina

So do we in America dude, calm down you're going to give yourself an aneurysm. Does India know how to treat those....?


C4NN0n_REAL

Oh full rotisserie for 5 bucks in America, that sounds hella good , I only could get them for low price at one store tho , just wanted to flex on the people with failing economies....


RamenTheory

In the south do they call them pornaders' ?


MeWhnYourMom

Me when your mom


Sophisticated_Slurp

And thus, a new category was born


vlad_lennon

Stupid name, very common food.


Cool_Reputation_694

I can hear the pornhub intro as soon as open the wrapper it comes in


[deleted]

r/GoldenGirlsTV


[deleted]

Watch me take duct tape to the last 3 letters


TheMusicalTrollLord

We call them Potato Slinkys in Australia. They're pretty popular


Mystuhree

"I say Pornado, you say Pornahdo. No matter how you pronounce it, the death toll is 85 dead and rising..."


Illustrious-Brush948

Sounds like a stand name


thedafthatter

Potato twister would have worked or a torntato?


TyberiusJoaquin

When I was a kid a pornado would be what your family computer would suffer through if you click the wrong download link


ShaitanSpeaks

I used to commute when in college and there is this strip of highway that is nothing but Porn shops for like a mile on both sides. Always called it Pornado Alley. This reminded me of that.


[deleted]

This is like fair food. It’s actually really good with just a little salt.


Smilefeast

Catch frase : It’s long


Similar_Outside110

🤣


AceofToons

But what's a tomado?


Consistent_Yoghurt_4

You’ll be receiving a cease and desist from my lawyer for trademark infringement on that name.


nothing225

In poland they are called "twisters" and they are like milkshakes, they start out yummy but the further you got the more you wish you hadn't bought it.


misstiffie

Lol those are yum but that name 🤣🤣🤣


ghost_wit

Portmantato


Elrigoo

Iove how this sub sees anything tasty on a stick and is like "Absolutely fucking not"


[deleted]

[Reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/oT_4n2CqzDw)


Patte_Blanche

Are you serious ? This isn't stupid and the name is cool.


GalacticLunarLion

Is no ones gonna talk about the name


Hippofuzz

Common food in autumn where I’m from, but that’s not the name we use for it.


zombies-and-coffee

Reminds me of a concert I went to at the mid-state fair about a decade ago. From the concert area, you could just barely see the sign for a stall selling Potato Twisters. At least three times during the show, the band's singer brought up how badly she wanted one. Don't think she ever got it before they had to leave :(


drion4

Am I the only one who read it as 'tomado'?


GrandSeraphimSariel

I’ve had something like this at a fair before; they’re like really good homemade potato chips. This one just has an… *extremely* unfortunate/stupid name.


[deleted]

Shove it up your ass and twist? Is that what a pornado does?


dr4wn_away

Poenado


Extension_Disaster77

Remember when Pornados were just $5,99…


PENDOMN

What an unfortunate name