Potatoes in the Media
This potato chip brand's slogan is "bet you can't have just one".
What are Lays?
These golden potatoes were invented in Canada in the 1960s.
What are Yukon Golds?
This macronutrient is predominant in potatoes.
What are carbohydrates?
This UK dish is believed to have been invented by housewives repackaging leftovers from their Sunday roast.
What is Shepherd's Pie?
This 2015 film starring Matt Damon features a stranded astronaut who grows potatoes in space.
What is The Martian?
This country is credited with inventing the French fry.
Where is Belgium?
This substance comprises 80% of potatoes.
What is water?
According to legend, this Ukrainian saint is credited with bringing pierogies to Poland.
Who is Saint Hyacinth?
This children's animated series stars vegetable and fruit characters (including a potato) that retell stores from the Bible.
What is Veggie Tales?
The Irish potato famine began in this year.
When is 1845?
This state grows the most potatoes in the United States.
Where is Idaho?
This potato snack was said to have been invented due to a customer complaining that their fries were too thick and soggy leading to the cook slicing the potatoes thinner and thinner.
What are potato chips?
This potato themed toy was the first toy advertised on television in 1952.
What is Mr. Potato Head?
Potatoes were the first vegetable grown in space in this year.
When is 1995?
This country grows the most potatoes in the world.
Where is China?
This US founding father served "potatoes prepared in the French manner" at the White House in 1802 leading to the popularization of French fires in the US.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This British sitcom features a scene of a man making a sculpture of Sea Parks out of mashed potatoes because the women he was dating told him her parents died there.
What is the IT Crowd?
Potatoes were first cultivated in this country.
Where is Peru?
The heaviest potato on record was grown in this country according to the Guinness Book of World Records at 10lbs 15oz.
Where is the United Kingdom?
This culture has a myth about a king using reverse psychology to popularize the potato by having his guards protect the fields during the day so farmers would think they were valuable and steal them at night.
What is German?