International Potato Day

In Today's Issue

International Potato Day
Potato's
Potato facts.....(I found some!)
Random Joke of the Day
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Finish with a Song

International Potato Day

One potato two potato three potato four.....today is the day to rejoice in the humble

spud. 

So today enjoy them mashed, fried, boiled or in their skins ! Chips !!! 

Potato's

We call them chips

to some they are fries

Potato's have skins

and even have eyes.

We smash them to bits

with our metal mashers

and munch them up 

with our white gnashers

We're vegitable cannibles

peeling and chipping

crisping them up in

Oil, lard or dripping

And in the end we

enjoy them cooked 

From East to West 

They've got us hooked

Potato Facts

Potatoes are a member of the nightshade family, which also includes tomatoes, capsicum and the poisonous belladonna.

On average each global citizen eats 33kg of potatoes each year. Australians, clearly potato lovers, eat a whopping 60kg per person every year!

In 1995 the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space when seeds were germinated on the spaceshuttle Columbia.

The Incans in South America were the first people to cultivate the potato as long ago as 200BCE.

The Spanish introduced the potato to Europe following the Conquest in the sixteenth century (and the word 'potato' comes from the Spanish patata).

In 1845 an outbreak of a disease called late blight decimated the Irish potato crop, which in turn caused the Great Irish Famine, believed to be responsible for over 1 million deaths in Ireland and the migration of a further million.

Good news for fans of mash: humans can apparently survive on a diet of just potatoes, and milk or butter, which contain Vitamin A and D, the only vitamins missing from the humble spud.

China is currently the world's largest producer of potatoes.

Potatoes contain a poisonous compound called solanines, which can reach toxic levels in green potatoes, in rare cases causing headaches, diarrhoea, cramps, and in isolated instances even coma and death.

Random Joke of the Day

I said to the baker.. "How come all your cakes are 50p and that one's £1" He said..." that's Madeira cake"

The world's biggest potato, weighing a hefty 3.76kg, was grown by English farmer Peter Glazebrook in 2010.

Finish with a Song

Given the theme, this is Bobby Picket with The Monster Mash, Released in 1962