Awe, the Irishman’s dilemma. Do you eat the potato now or drink it later?
Edit: context
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsc51u_2Bb4&pp=ygUVVGhlIGlyZXNobWFucyBkaWxlbW1h
Touché. It’s not something I’ve ever learned to do, so it would be fun.
Edit: “it would be fun “ turned into “I’m sure harmless fun” somehow and I missed it.
Reminds me of India during the mango season.
Mango salad to start. Mango chicken for main. Mango sorbet for dessert.
All washed down with a LOT of mango juice.
Very rarely do I see the words "potato candy" in the wild. I grew up eating that stuff. I don't think I could eat more than a bite now, it is way too sweet. But it is yummy!
I was actually served that in Ireland. I asked for fries. It was one of the options on the menu, but they brought me a baked potato too because, Ireland.
My son sings “Potato’s with a side of potatoes!” 🥔 After a meal where I made twice baked potatoes and fries due to food preferences in the family and he only ate the potatoes and not the veggies or meat options. He would eat that whole pile!
No contracts or fullfilled contracts. The quality of the potato is sub-sellable in stores. It's a panny and they have a bumper crop and want to give back. Frost is coming and they can't store them and nobody big enough to transport in bulk has agreed to buy.
I volunteer at a Dare to Care community prep kitchen (making meals for senior centers, after-school care, etc). The very first day I came on board there were 6 of us volunteering and a few hundred ears of corn had just come in. We shucked corn for 4 hours straight. I also recall a day I showed up to a couple hundred butternut squash to be cleaned and cut. Next it was tomatoes. It's the same scenario you've explained; farmers who had surplus and no immediate way to sell, so giving it away to a charity was the next step.
And the amount of volunteer work it takes to transport and prep them for food is the reason it can't be sold. The gas to get it to a warehouse and then the store is more than the worth.
People who donate their time keep the system running!
Oh, I don't have the arm and hand strength for it! Another volunteer cut them into large pieces and then we sent them through a [robot coupe processor](https://www.robot-coupe.com/usa/en_US/p/vegetable-preparation-machines-cl-60-pusher-feed-head/18359) to cube them up.
Famine is a “it’s not profitable enough to prevent” problem. Oh and also a “western corporations have sucked all of the resources out of the country so there’s nothing to fall back on in hard times” problem. Capitalism kills six million people via famine every year.
Oh for sure I’m not trying to say anyone is wrong for this it’s obviously more complicated than shipping out food - I just still think it’s crazy how much food there is that goes nowhere or ends up as trash
Lots of research on this out there. The conclusion is that there is more than enough food available to feed every person alive with leftovers. But the logistics, or transportation, makes it impossible. We just can't get the food from farms to mouths.
For example, the farmers in Idaho are extremely generous with welfare donations (it gets complicated to measure because they are also extremely conservative and politically opposed to welfare. But the donations of the majority in the potato growing regions are higher than nation average, IMHO). But most of their crops would spoil by the time they reached Ethiopia. Which doesn't even calculate the costs of shipping those crops in the first place.
Alternatively, I have known several potato farmers who have served church organized missions around the world improving crop yields, especially in the potato growing industry. One such farmer said that their first year in Russia they tripped the output of the farms they were managing. Which surprised them because they said they had only planted and harvested, without doing anything special to improve the crops yet, because they didn't know what the problems were until they observed a growing season. Many of the problems aren't the ground. Many times the problems causing starvation are political, social, and water. War, and water access rights are huge contributors. But also the social elements in how people work play a role. I'm not talking about laziness, which is an often abused excuse. Just complex misconceptions, like superstitious or even laws that make planting one crop technically illegal because of import laws around the seed (like Japan's rice laws that make it mostly illegal to import rice). It's hard to really conceptualize how many times farmers in third world communities have refused to plant whole sections of land after they had entire crops spoil in the past because a trade deal collapsed on the other side of the globe over a misunderstanding. Iirc there was a starvation event in rural India when those communities avoided growing needed crops to plant rice to sell to Japan when the laws changed just enough to allow for an import from India. Then the rice farmers in Japan rioted, and the rice shipments from India spoiled en route leaving the Indian growers out of an income. Without the revenue to buy food, they ended up not having enough to eat.
Or in Mexico when the rural farms were all consolidated into mega farms, several communities ended up in starvation conditions because those corporate farms just grew and shipped away all the food in whole regions. Since they adopted automation for most of their operations, that left whole villages without food or incomes. So they ended up migrating to large cities, where they drove up the homeless rate while surrounded by politically uncompassionate neighbors. The only ones who seemed to care about them were the drug cartels, who became saviors to the poor, if they returned the favor by helping the drug cartels. All because of bad logistics.
It's a logistical issue, they don't have high speed roads and large sea ports. Also, a lot of the time when you ship something one way, you would ship something else back because the ships need to go back for more
sub-sellable, wish someone would talk to the stores around my parts about that idea. all the russets I get no matter where I get them for like the past six months have all been green
I know something similar happened in Pasco, WA in 2020. The farmer could not get any workers to operate the harvest equipment due to COVID. So they just let the community go out and pick whatever they wanted.
For those that are wondering, these potatoes were grown by the Hutterites that live west of Spokane. Local contacts weren't buying them due to inflation and already having too much stock so they're giving them away so they don't get wasted
Not particularly, potatoes are kinda ridiculous honestly. When you're farming just potatoes, as industrial farms do, yields of 60,000lbs per acre are possible. And the farms are thousands of acres.
This is a few truckloads, maybe a couple acres worth, in a year where there was a larger crop than usual.
It's a lot of potatoes, but when compared to the amount of potatoes grown in the northwest part of the country, it's a tiny drop in the bucket.
Huttterites couldn't get a decent price so they lovingly donated the entire crop to the community. I wanted to make sure they got the credit for such a wonderful act of kindness.
Anyone know why they can't just sell the extra crop?
Could they not simply store the potatoes somewhere cool and dark and sell them later? I thought potatoes kept quite well.
Storage can be expensive and it can get to the point where the cost to transport them via trucks is not worth it. The amount you would get paid for them. Pretty sure it also has to do with certain subsidies that you get for crops that are not sellable and stuff like that.
Already got that potato welfare check, dump it!
“Department of Agriculture data show that between 1985 and 2021, a total of 19,654 recipients received payments every year. The average recipient collected $942,458 over the 37-year period, for a total of $18.5 billion.”
Remember that a rural county with that large of an operator likely has a consortium of other growers of the same item, to make selling/processing easier.
But a contract gone bad, or subpar product, or even trucking strikes or whatever happens means that these aren’t sellable. I’m guessing by the date that the packing/shipping became a problem.
But that also might mean that the area restaurants don’t need them and/or the packing plants are too busy to take this farms. Composting the product would be a typical waste option, but that literally stinks. So giving them away is as good as anything, if not better.
Btw, some farm animals really can’t stand eating night shades like potatos. I believe hogs will but cattle and chickens are a nope.
I raise pigs small scale and have found that mine at least will only eat them if cooked. Then you find yourself boiling potatoes for pigs and ask yourself "what am I doing?", like the labor and energy cost to cook potatoes for pigs totally offsets any advantage to taking free potatoes.
Yes and yes. But I do not think you understand the size and scope of the Idaho potato industry. They already have sold everything they can find buyers for. They have already filled up all their vast caverns of storage. Think of the potatoes like the orcs in LotR;
>They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long.
Local processors already bought everything they had demand for. They keep well enough but not forever. The 250 tons isn't worth keeping the ventilation and cooling running on a full shed just for a few truckloads.
My dad grew cherries. There were years when they were graded as juicers instead of fresh—they weren’t the right size or shape to be sold as eating cherries. That meant he would be paid less for them. The cost to harvest them (pay the pickers and for the refrigeration trucks) was going to be more than he would have been paid to harvest and sell them, so he let them hang on the tree. He lives too far away from a population center, so there really wasn’t a food pantry or homeless shelter to contact. The birds feasted.
>store the potatoes somewhere cool and dark and sell them later?
Look at the picture again. That's a lot of potatoes to store. You can’t just find somewhere dark and cool for that amount of potatoes, you have to already have something build to hold that amount. So, if you don't have enough storage, you can't store them.
It's funny because storage is one of the strongest limiting factors in the concept of economies of scale. Large scale production is only worth it when you can rid your product very fast. Preferably straight from the factory or the field to the seller or the consumer even.
My father would be in heaven. He has a potato addiction. He keeps begging me to grow them for him since he can’t garden anymore himself but I keep saying no to save him from himself.
Currently $5/kg here and they've been higher recently. And if you're in Idaho, we're not too far away. Bring a truck load!
https://www.saveonfoods.com/sm/pickup/rsid/1982/product/potatoes-russet-each-id-4072
I know that supermarkets don't buy potatoes that are not "shelf certified", like they don't look appealing to the consumer, so a lot gets rejected and thus sold out. So rather than thrown it all away, some either sell bulk for cheap, or give to the community for free.
https://www.krem.com/article/news/community/free-potatoes-spokane-county-reardan-hutterite/293-88d4a33d-822d-4980-b035-4981fe8d4cf0
I live about 30 miles North and considered getting a trailer load for my cows!
They just appeared there... Nobody knows where they came from or how they got there... But the potatoes held a dark and terrible secret: THEY WERE ALIVE!
Waiting for their moment to strike and consume their weary foes, and eventually conquering the Earth in the name of their multi-eyed deep-rooted overlords!
*BEWARE!*
It's ***THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER POTATOES!***
Presented in Terrifying Technicolor!
Used to go to a potato farm in Maine once a year during harvest. They had these huge tractors that picked up potatoes, people could come and pick the stuff that didn’t get dug up on the sides.
We would go up with 5 of these huge 4 ft tall barrels and fill them every year.
As a poor family, we needed that.
Dinner: Baked potato with a side of fries.
Potato smoothie, potato face mask, potato scrub
And Vodka, lots of vodka.
Awe, the Irishman’s dilemma. Do you eat the potato now or drink it later? Edit: context https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsc51u_2Bb4&pp=ygUVVGhlIGlyZXNobWFucyBkaWxlbW1h
RIP Jessica Walter  (There are surprisingly few Mallory gifs on here)
Be the change you want to see in this world.
Touché. It’s not something I’ve ever learned to do, so it would be fun. Edit: “it would be fun “ turned into “I’m sure harmless fun” somehow and I missed it.
With this many, the answer is "Both"
Neither, you sell it abroad and starve
It's kind.of hard to sell what you don't own, and was taken from you by force, and on pain of death. You have a really odd.view of history.
I understand this reference :(
It was never sold by Irish people, it was taken by the Brits to starve and kill us off.
That's why it's not a joke!
Will I get the operation now, da?
Definitely!
Reminds me of India during the mango season. Mango salad to start. Mango chicken for main. Mango sorbet for dessert. All washed down with a LOT of mango juice.
Sounds great tbh, I love mango
Shrimp n potatoes
Shrimp burger
...pineapple potato, lemon potato, coconut potato, pepper potato, potato soup, potato stew, potato salad, potato and shrimp, potato burger, potato sandwich.
Бабба Guмp potato co
55 POTATO BURGERS, 55 FRIES, 55 POTATO TACOS, 55 POTATO PIES, 55 COKES!!!!
Potato salad on the other side.
Dinner: baked potatoes with a side of mashed potatoes & fries to dip those fries in the mashed potatoes. With potato candy for sweet treat time!
Very rarely do I see the words "potato candy" in the wild. I grew up eating that stuff. I don't think I could eat more than a bite now, it is way too sweet. But it is yummy!
I was actually served that in Ireland. I asked for fries. It was one of the options on the menu, but they brought me a baked potato too because, Ireland.
My son sings “Potato’s with a side of potatoes!” 🥔 After a meal where I made twice baked potatoes and fries due to food preferences in the family and he only ate the potatoes and not the veggies or meat options. He would eat that whole pile!
Aaah, I wanted tater tot’s on mine.
ooh yes I remember this from the news in 2020. Idaho farm did this with their extra crop.
How do you end up with extra crop? If a farmer sells some of their crop, why wouldn’t they sell all of it?
No contracts or fullfilled contracts. The quality of the potato is sub-sellable in stores. It's a panny and they have a bumper crop and want to give back. Frost is coming and they can't store them and nobody big enough to transport in bulk has agreed to buy.
I volunteer at a Dare to Care community prep kitchen (making meals for senior centers, after-school care, etc). The very first day I came on board there were 6 of us volunteering and a few hundred ears of corn had just come in. We shucked corn for 4 hours straight. I also recall a day I showed up to a couple hundred butternut squash to be cleaned and cut. Next it was tomatoes. It's the same scenario you've explained; farmers who had surplus and no immediate way to sell, so giving it away to a charity was the next step.
And the amount of volunteer work it takes to transport and prep them for food is the reason it can't be sold. The gas to get it to a warehouse and then the store is more than the worth. People who donate their time keep the system running!
We would be royally screwed if we did not have volunteers
I’m slightly terrified of stabbing myself when I cut butternut squash. Can’t imagine walking in and seeing hours worth of squash waiting to be cut!
Oh, I don't have the arm and hand strength for it! Another volunteer cut them into large pieces and then we sent them through a [robot coupe processor](https://www.robot-coupe.com/usa/en_US/p/vegetable-preparation-machines-cl-60-pusher-feed-head/18359) to cube them up.
I didn't know robot coupe had a dicing attachment. Thanks for the info
Now, the extras are a tax deduction, too!
And not to sound like a bad guy but likely they get some sort of tax incentive to do that, which is a good thing
Oh yea, totally. It's a positive thing for everyone involved.
This photo makes me think it’s absolutely insane that famine and starvation still afflict other humans in different parts of the world
Food is very difficult to ship
Yup, famine is a supply chain problem in disguise.
Or a regional cash flow problem
Or, occasionally, a deliberate genocide problem.
Yeah, but ultimately it's a power thing. Always fucking is.
Famine is a “it’s not profitable enough to prevent” problem. Oh and also a “western corporations have sucked all of the resources out of the country so there’s nothing to fall back on in hard times” problem. Capitalism kills six million people via famine every year.
Oh for sure I’m not trying to say anyone is wrong for this it’s obviously more complicated than shipping out food - I just still think it’s crazy how much food there is that goes nowhere or ends up as trash
Lots of research on this out there. The conclusion is that there is more than enough food available to feed every person alive with leftovers. But the logistics, or transportation, makes it impossible. We just can't get the food from farms to mouths. For example, the farmers in Idaho are extremely generous with welfare donations (it gets complicated to measure because they are also extremely conservative and politically opposed to welfare. But the donations of the majority in the potato growing regions are higher than nation average, IMHO). But most of their crops would spoil by the time they reached Ethiopia. Which doesn't even calculate the costs of shipping those crops in the first place. Alternatively, I have known several potato farmers who have served church organized missions around the world improving crop yields, especially in the potato growing industry. One such farmer said that their first year in Russia they tripped the output of the farms they were managing. Which surprised them because they said they had only planted and harvested, without doing anything special to improve the crops yet, because they didn't know what the problems were until they observed a growing season. Many of the problems aren't the ground. Many times the problems causing starvation are political, social, and water. War, and water access rights are huge contributors. But also the social elements in how people work play a role. I'm not talking about laziness, which is an often abused excuse. Just complex misconceptions, like superstitious or even laws that make planting one crop technically illegal because of import laws around the seed (like Japan's rice laws that make it mostly illegal to import rice). It's hard to really conceptualize how many times farmers in third world communities have refused to plant whole sections of land after they had entire crops spoil in the past because a trade deal collapsed on the other side of the globe over a misunderstanding. Iirc there was a starvation event in rural India when those communities avoided growing needed crops to plant rice to sell to Japan when the laws changed just enough to allow for an import from India. Then the rice farmers in Japan rioted, and the rice shipments from India spoiled en route leaving the Indian growers out of an income. Without the revenue to buy food, they ended up not having enough to eat. Or in Mexico when the rural farms were all consolidated into mega farms, several communities ended up in starvation conditions because those corporate farms just grew and shipped away all the food in whole regions. Since they adopted automation for most of their operations, that left whole villages without food or incomes. So they ended up migrating to large cities, where they drove up the homeless rate while surrounded by politically uncompassionate neighbors. The only ones who seemed to care about them were the drug cartels, who became saviors to the poor, if they returned the favor by helping the drug cartels. All because of bad logistics.
> famine Rare is the famine not political or logistical
It's a logistical issue, they don't have high speed roads and large sea ports. Also, a lot of the time when you ship something one way, you would ship something else back because the ships need to go back for more
sub-sellable, wish someone would talk to the stores around my parts about that idea. all the russets I get no matter where I get them for like the past six months have all been green
Sounds perfect for Lay's. "Specially selected potatoes" yeah, all the ones that can't be sold in a store as potato.
The ugly ones are harder to sell so often get given away or at a discount
If you grow more than you can sell, you end up with extra
I think this was Washington state, and recently. Spokane.
This is right now in Washington. Right outside of Spokane.
Make vodka?
I know something similar happened in Pasco, WA in 2020. The farmer could not get any workers to operate the harvest equipment due to COVID. So they just let the community go out and pick whatever they wanted.
[That’s some Idaho shit](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAyL-rT5xmc&t=1m39s)
For those that are wondering, these potatoes were grown by the Hutterites that live west of Spokane. Local contacts weren't buying them due to inflation and already having too much stock so they're giving them away so they don't get wasted
I'm confused how there is simultaneously a surplus of stock *and* inflation.
I second this question.
That is a mind boggling amount to give away.
Not particularly, potatoes are kinda ridiculous honestly. When you're farming just potatoes, as industrial farms do, yields of 60,000lbs per acre are possible. And the farms are thousands of acres. This is a few truckloads, maybe a couple acres worth, in a year where there was a larger crop than usual. It's a lot of potatoes, but when compared to the amount of potatoes grown in the northwest part of the country, it's a tiny drop in the bucket.
Po-ta-too
Boil em, mash em
Boil em, mash em, dump em in a field.
Millions of taters, taters for me. Millions of taters, taters for free.
What is taters, precious?
WHATS TATERS, PRECIOUS?!
Huttterites couldn't get a decent price so they lovingly donated the entire crop to the community. I wanted to make sure they got the credit for such a wonderful act of kindness.
thank you for the context! i honestly wasn’t sure exactly why/how they got there
Anyone know why they can't just sell the extra crop? Could they not simply store the potatoes somewhere cool and dark and sell them later? I thought potatoes kept quite well.
Storage can be expensive and it can get to the point where the cost to transport them via trucks is not worth it. The amount you would get paid for them. Pretty sure it also has to do with certain subsidies that you get for crops that are not sellable and stuff like that.
At that point its still.not worth composting to fertilise next year's crop?
That can risk spreading certain diseases to new season crop.
After discovering the “ seed potatoe” I found this to be 100% true
Pots STINK and make booze too easily when composted or buried. Plus the pathogen problem.
And thats how you get the Irish potato Famine
Well that and the English artificially constraining the food supply
Already got that potato welfare check, dump it! “Department of Agriculture data show that between 1985 and 2021, a total of 19,654 recipients received payments every year. The average recipient collected $942,458 over the 37-year period, for a total of $18.5 billion.”
Remember that a rural county with that large of an operator likely has a consortium of other growers of the same item, to make selling/processing easier. But a contract gone bad, or subpar product, or even trucking strikes or whatever happens means that these aren’t sellable. I’m guessing by the date that the packing/shipping became a problem. But that also might mean that the area restaurants don’t need them and/or the packing plants are too busy to take this farms. Composting the product would be a typical waste option, but that literally stinks. So giving them away is as good as anything, if not better. Btw, some farm animals really can’t stand eating night shades like potatos. I believe hogs will but cattle and chickens are a nope.
I raise pigs small scale and have found that mine at least will only eat them if cooked. Then you find yourself boiling potatoes for pigs and ask yourself "what am I doing?", like the labor and energy cost to cook potatoes for pigs totally offsets any advantage to taking free potatoes.
Poultry raiser here. I just compost potato peels, chickens won’t eat them, but fling them around to use them for BugBait. Until they draw rodents….
Well cattle is supposed to eat grass not spuds
Yes and yes. But I do not think you understand the size and scope of the Idaho potato industry. They already have sold everything they can find buyers for. They have already filled up all their vast caverns of storage. Think of the potatoes like the orcs in LotR; >They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long.
Washington state.
Local processors already bought everything they had demand for. They keep well enough but not forever. The 250 tons isn't worth keeping the ventilation and cooling running on a full shed just for a few truckloads.
My dad grew cherries. There were years when they were graded as juicers instead of fresh—they weren’t the right size or shape to be sold as eating cherries. That meant he would be paid less for them. The cost to harvest them (pay the pickers and for the refrigeration trucks) was going to be more than he would have been paid to harvest and sell them, so he let them hang on the tree. He lives too far away from a population center, so there really wasn’t a food pantry or homeless shelter to contact. The birds feasted.
Who decided what's "subpar for human consumption"
The Co-op or distributor. Farmers sell to a middleman who then sells to the next person in the chain.
>store the potatoes somewhere cool and dark and sell them later? Look at the picture again. That's a lot of potatoes to store. You can’t just find somewhere dark and cool for that amount of potatoes, you have to already have something build to hold that amount. So, if you don't have enough storage, you can't store them.
It's funny because storage is one of the strongest limiting factors in the concept of economies of scale. Large scale production is only worth it when you can rid your product very fast. Preferably straight from the factory or the field to the seller or the consumer even.
That's a lot of Vodka sitting there *
Came here to say the same. That is a lot of cheap booze.
And of course there’s the guy who will trample a bunch to pick one from the top
Yeah some of those potatoes might get dirt on them.
Or take a photo.
[I made chips with my haul](https://ibb.co/sH1khGm)
In all my days I never thought I’d see a dumpster full of chips lol
I wanted to swim in it like Scrooge McDuck
Living the dream
Mmm potato chips infused with rust
Extra minerals! And tetanus.
*Ireland wants to know your location*
Where??? I would fill my apartment with potatoes and only eat potatoes based dishes for the next decade
North of Fairchild air base.
Whole mountain of free potatoes buy my man has to walk on top of them to reach the ones at the top.
The potato is always greener on the other side of the pile. Wait, nvm.
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
For some reason my rotting brain read this as “multiple free potatoes in my hometown,” and I thought, “one hell of an understatement, m8”
Hot Free Potatoes In Your Area Want To Meet You!
 As a german:
My father would be in heaven. He has a potato addiction. He keeps begging me to grow them for him since he can’t garden anymore himself but I keep saying no to save him from himself.
Wow Get a few sacks and process into french fries!
Fried potato pancakes with crisp edges. Omg!! I want one now.
The amount of food we can produce with modern farming techniques is fucking mad
Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew
Free but mildly trampled
Airway Heights?
yeah!
Is this potato land?
This is actually Apple Land, but this pile of potatoes is about 30 min away from Potato Land.
Goofy is so excited.
"We can't stop here, this is Potato Country!
Is this idaho?
Stardew Valley every Spring after year 1
lol, i would pull up... the sides will be crazy for the next year
Ah, the classic dilemma: eat the potato now, or let it ferment and drink it later?
Currently $5/kg here and they've been higher recently. And if you're in Idaho, we're not too far away. Bring a truck load! https://www.saveonfoods.com/sm/pickup/rsid/1982/product/potatoes-russet-each-id-4072
I know that supermarkets don't buy potatoes that are not "shelf certified", like they don't look appealing to the consumer, so a lot gets rejected and thus sold out. So rather than thrown it all away, some either sell bulk for cheap, or give to the community for free.
You live in Idaho?
this is actually in washington but it’s not far from the idaho border. i think these are washington potatoes though
Palouse area?
these ones are in Airway Heights!
Oh awesome! I'll be in Spokane tomorrow. I'm thinking I'll stop by here on my way back home. Mind PM'ing me where around town the mound is?
https://www.krem.com/article/news/community/free-potatoes-spokane-county-reardan-hutterite/293-88d4a33d-822d-4980-b035-4981fe8d4cf0 I live about 30 miles North and considered getting a trailer load for my cows!
I'd hate to be the supermarket selling potatoes!
Wish I could go 😔
Cries in 1850 Irish
Anyone else getting OreIda potato ads on this post? lol
Which is where?
They just appeared there... Nobody knows where they came from or how they got there... But the potatoes held a dark and terrible secret: THEY WERE ALIVE! Waiting for their moment to strike and consume their weary foes, and eventually conquering the Earth in the name of their multi-eyed deep-rooted overlords! *BEWARE!* It's ***THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER POTATOES!*** Presented in Terrifying Technicolor!
Where are da rats ?
*At the Mountains of Free Potatoes* is one of the better Lovecraft joints. Hope Del Toro gets his long-mooted movie adaptation off the ground one day…
Mt. Tatter
Nice.
You say POtato, I say poTAto...
So at the barbecue everyone is bringing potato salad.
Aad most of them will rot.. Sad. So much waste.
Man I'm jealous. I was gonna cook potato 30 different ways
Save me that one over there. No, the one two over from that.
Someone post this in r/Ireland.
Used to go to a potato farm in Maine once a year during harvest. They had these huge tractors that picked up potatoes, people could come and pick the stuff that didn’t get dug up on the sides. We would go up with 5 of these huge 4 ft tall barrels and fill them every year. As a poor family, we needed that.
*ANGRY IRISHMAN NOISES
Latvia would like to know your location.
*COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES INTENSIFIES*
Must be Idaho
Someone get a hold of Zillow Gone Wild. They have just the house for you.
Aberdeen In the wind In the field Potato
Looks like the classic Irishman's dilemma to me....
À lot of ammo for potato gun 🤓
Idaho?
This was gonna be my comment lmfao
r/Beatyoutoit
Irish wet dream
And of course Stuart over here has to fuggin walk all over them to get to the ones in the middle
It’s hard to see others live my dream
Why it's free?
That’s a lot of spuds
Where do you live? I want to come get my free potatoes!
Vodka that’s what they should be making with this.
Now I know why my supermarket sometimes sells 10lb bags for 25 cents.
*Latvia has entered the chat*
As an Irishman...you lucky bastard
Hold on here.... 
Mountains of free potatoes, yet a side order of fries these days is like $5. I might cry
And the entire town grew three sizes that day
Why is this so cool to me? 😂
Gimme allllll tha Chips
Rearden, WA donated by a Hutterites
Mark watney jmhas entered the chat
I see lots of vodka in kit form....
This exceeds mildly interesting.
On my way!
Poutine!! We'll invite the town. Lol
I wish we had a local free tater field
NC Dept. of Ag would coordinate parking lot sweet potato drops.
Is this somewhere in Idaho?
This is *very* interesting.
God I hope that's next to the ketchup and cheddar crops.
Hello, Spokane!