When the potato first arrived in Europe, people were very suspicious of it. Some thought it would cause gas, leprosy or bring disease. Others suggested the opposite, that it could cure ailments like diarrhea, tuberculosis, impotence in men, and infertility in women.

One man in Scandinavia lived for 300 days on nothing but spuds dressed with a little bit of margarine.

The largest potato ever recorded according to the The Guinness Book of World Records, was 7 pounds 13 ounces and was grown in 1994 by K. Sloan from the Isle of Man

You Don't Just Eat 'Em
Potato acids can be found in detergents. Potato starch is used as an adhesive in stamps and as an absorbing agent in disposable diapers.

In order to entice superstitious French farmers into harvesting potatoes, Antoine Parmentier put guards in his potato field by day and withdrew them at night. The farmers thought that if the crop was guarded it must be important, and crept in at night to harvest the potatoes. It was soon cultivated all over France.

The Potato Famine of 1845 - 1851 in Ireland was not the first such disaster. In 1740, a potato crop failure had caused a famine that had killed one-fifth of the population, but this did not cause the Irish to give up on potatoes. (How badly do YOU want your potatoe?) :lol

mmmmmmm... poe tate oooooo............ yummy yummy they r. baked, with lots of butter and coverd with baco's till u cant c the vegitable.... mmmmm.......... thats makin me hungry. and i juss ate too!

Waht are baco's? Bacons?

It is bacon bits
i like my baked potatos with Cheese, Butter, Bacon Bits, Brocolli, salt, and pepper

ya, i forgot u live in Canadia... lol, ya, i spelled it like that on pupose.(canadians, canadia). its a brand of bacon bits. there artificial i think, but still taste like bacon of course, and theyre crunchy crunchy... mmm, i like to snack on them. i get in trubble everytime we have baked taters cuz i use half the bottle... ee hehehe. oops.

haha thats just like me with A1 sauce hehe i use almost the whole bottle for 1 stake hahaha

Ya may think it weird, but I like Butter and Ketchup on mine... LOTSA KETCHUP!!!!

ok i can understand just ketchup or just butter but both?

Same here... both?? :p

hmmmm. aint gonna try it. o well, i do what i like, u do what u like