Now for some trivia...

• A potato is approximately 80% water and 20% solid.
• Henry Spalding first planted potatoes in Idaho in 1837.
• "French Fries" were introduced to America when Thomas Jefferson served them at a Whitehouse dinner.
• The average American eats 140 pounds of potatoes per year.  "EAT MORE TATERS!!"
• The largest potato grown weighed 18 pounds and 4 ounces according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It was grown in England in 1795.
• Potatoes are grown in every state of the USA, and in approximately 125 different countries around the world!
• In 1974, a man named Eric Jenkins grew 370 pounds of potatoes from one plant!
• The potato is a relative of tobacco and the tomato.
• In 1952, Mr. Potato Head was born!
• The potato is the fourth most important crop in the world after wheat, rice and corn.
  
• Remember way back in 1992, when Dan Quayle misspelled "potato" with an "e", on national TV ?

  How about some MORE trivia...

The Irish referred to potatoes as "spuds," the name that came from a type of spade used for digging potatoes.
The word "pothole" which we use to describe a hole in the road came from the Irish. They boiled their daily meal of potatoes in a pot. When the potatoes were finished cooking, the pot was lifted off the fire and set on the ground to cool. In the process of mashing the potatoes, the pot would be pushed into the ground. In time, a deep hole would develop, a pothole!
A couch potato -- someone who is glued to the TV and never exercises
He's a cold potato. -- someone who is not warm-spirited
"Little pigs eat great potatoes." An Irish saying