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unusual facts about Potato



Alakamisy Antivato

The most important crops are rice and potatoes, while other important agricultural products are maize, barley and soya.

Andrew H. Stone

In 1998, Stone assisted in the briefing of the Rubin V. Snake River Potato Growers case which was a companion case that challenged the Line Item Veto Act of 1996.

Anti-Irish sentiment

The article claimed that Katie Taylor was not "what you'd expect in a fighting Irishwoman, nor is she surrounded by people who'd prefer a punch to a potato".

Ashton, Idaho

The longtime enemy to potato farming is potato blight, a form of mold that reproduces from spores in the soil and sickens the potato plant.

Bayer Code

For example, corn (Zea mays) would be ZEAMA and potato late blight (Phytophthora infestans) PHYTIN.

Brewster, Ohio

Brewster is the headquarters for Shearer's Foods, makers of Shearer’s potato chips and snacks, and Brewster Dairy, the largest Swiss cheese plant in the US.

Cantenna

Although some designs are based on a Pringles potato chips can, this tube is too narrow to increase the signal by a useful amount.

Carboxypeptidase A inhibitor

The N-terminal region and the mature inhibitor are weakly related to other solananaceous proteins found in this family, from potato, tomato and henbane, which have been incorrectly described as metallocarboxypeptidase inhibitors.

Channarayapatna

Sugarcane is the leading commercial crop, while food crops include ragi, coconut and potato.

Chuño

The word comes from Quechua ch'uñu, meaning frozen potato (wrinkled in the dialects of the Junín Region).

Cottage pie

In the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico this is called pastelón de papa (potato casserole), it has a layer of potatoes, one or two of meat, and another of potatoes, topped with a layer of cheese.

Deep fryer

Industrial enterprises producing deep-fried snack foods such as potato chips or pre-fried French fried potatoes use automated frying systems that consist mainly of the actual frying pan, a tube type heat exchanger to heat the frying oil, a filter, a circulation pump, a banana tank for fresh oil and the automation system, most often a PLC.

Gene Wolfe

before retiring to write full-time, but his most famous professional engineering achievement is a contribution to the machine used to make Pringles potato chips.

Gobbledok

The Gobbledok subsisted on Smith's chips because they reminded it of its home, Dok the Potato Planet.

Horouta

The story goes that Kahukura, a man from Hawaiki, introduced kūmara (sweet potato), to the locals who had never had anything like it before.

Hutspot

The first European record of the potato is as late as 1537, by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Castellanos, and it spread quite slowly throughout Europe from thereon.

Intramolecular Diels–Alder cycloaddition

The compound was isolated from the phytopathogenic fungi Alternaria solani, the cause of “early blight” in tomato and potato plants.

Iona, Idaho

Sagebrush, as tall as a man sitting on a horse, covered the now famous potato fields.

Isotopomers

monocots, such as rice and oats, differ from dicots, such as potatoes and tree fruits, in the relative amounts of 12CO2 and 13CO2 that they incorporate into their tissues as products of photosynthesis.

Jimmy C. Newman

In 1976, his recording of the Cajun French song, "Lâche pas la patate" ("The Potato Song") earned gold record status in Canada.

Joseph F. Quinn

He lived in Salem and was the son of an immigrant from the days of the potato famine.

King Edward potato

It is claimed that the grower wrote to Buckingham Palace seeking permission to name his potato after the monarch and that a reply was received granting royal assent.

Korokke

Korokke is made by mixing cooked chopped meat, seafood, or vegetables with mashed potato or white sauce, rolling it in wheat flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs, then deep frying this until brown on the outside.

Kugelis

Kugelis (also bulvių plokštainis, the lexically correct non-foreign name, literally "flat potato dish" or banda - a dialecticism frequent especially in Dzūkija region) is a baked potato pudding.

Kurume, Fukuoka

Notable people from Kurume include the family of the Bridgestone Tire Corporation (Shojiro Ishibashi), George Shima (the "Potato King" of California), the singer and actress Seiko Matsuda, anime creator Leiji Matsumoto, the television celebrity, Rena Tanaka, actor Ryo Ishibashi, and actor Susumu Fujita.

Lemon battery

In the sixth episode of the final season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the main villan Pearl Forrester tried taking over the world using potato batteries, only for her plans to be ruined by Professor Bobo.

Lewisville, Idaho

For the city's important role in Idaho's potato industry, Governor Butch Otter proclaimed August 11, 2007 "Lewisville Day" statewide.

Market Fresh Sandwiches

Originally, Market Fresh Sandwiches were served in a box with potato chips, very similar to Subway and Port of Subs restaurants.

Mirchi Bada

Mirchi Bada (chili cutlet) is a spicy Indian snack consisting of chili (Mirchi) and potato stuffing, served hot with tomato sauce or occasionally with mint and tamarind chutney.

Mrs Miggins

In "Potato", she is mentioned when Percy tells Blackadder that everyone is going to honour Sir Walter Raleigh.

Oschersleben

In 1992, a potato processing plant of the company Agrarfrost was built, that produces French fries and potato chips.

Pesticides in Canada

For example, in Montague on Prince Edward Island, nine fish kills happened in one year: every fish, snake, and snail was killed in a river called Sutherland's Hole near potato farms from which herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides ran off after heavy rains.

Plant-specific insert

Atomic force microscopy experimentation on potato PSI expressed separately from its parent AP has revealed that anionic phospholipid membranes are rearranged by PSI in a similar fashion to that observed with saposin C.

Pomato

The pomato (or tomtato) is a hybrid or chimera produced by grafting a tomato plant and a potato plant, both of which are members of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.

Potato Control Law

The Potato Control Law (1929) was based upon an economic policy enacted by U.S. President Herbert Hoover's Federal Emergency Relief Administration at the beginning of the Great Depression.

Potato Creek

Potato Creek joins the Allegheny River approximately 1.7 miles (2.7 km) downstream of the community of Coryville.

Potato head

Mr. Potato Head, a popular children's doll, consisting of a plastic model of a potato

Potato production in North Korea

Along with North Korea's Academy of Agricultural Sciences, World Vision, and the Asia Pacific Peace Committee, which was replaced by the Korea National Economic Cooperation Agency (KNECA), a fifth hydroponic seed potato farm was established in Taehongdan County in 2007, with expectations of boosting potato production quality by 50 percent.

The "potato revolution" was initiated in 1999 by Kim Jong-il; potatoes were viewed as a crop of high importance.

Rooster potato

It was originally bred at the Teagasc Oak Park Research Centre in Carlow by Harry Kehoe who was one of the top potato breeders at Oak Park Research Centre, Ireland.

Said Salim Bakhresa

After getting into the potato mix industry, Bakhresa got involved as a restaurant operator in the 1970s and then went into grain milling.

Scott Johns

During his playing career he reached the top eight of a Pro Tour five times including his very first Pro Tour, and won Pro Tour New York 2000 with Gary Wise and Mike Turian as a part of Potato Nation.

Spare ribs

In County Cork, Ireland, pork or beef spare ribs are boiled and eaten with potatoes and turnips.

The Potato Factory

The Potato Factory is a 1995 fictionalised historical novel by Bryce Courtenay, which was made into an Australian miniseries in 2000.

Troth Yeddha'

This is a Lower Tanana Athabascan place name that derives from words troth, meaning 'Indian potato' or 'wild potato' (Hedysarum alpinum) and yeddha', meaning 'ridge'.

Vadeli

It is surrounded by the fertile Charotar region which largely produces tobacco, rice, cotton, lady finger, Tomato, Potato and other agricultural crops.

War against the potato beetle

The war against the potato beetle was a campaign launched in Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War to eradicate the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).

Wong Chin Foo

Wong went up repeatedly against anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney, heckling him and at one point challenging him to a duel, and giving Kearney his choice of weapon: chopsticks, Irish potatoes, or Krupp guns.

Yummy Yummy Yummy

Other cover versions were recorded by The Residents on The Third Reich 'n Roll (1976), Spanish disco group Baccara on their 1978 album Light My Fire, rockabilly band Elvis Hitler on their 1992 album Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious, and experimental rock band Tub Ring on their 1995 album ...And the Mashed Potato Mountain Etiquette.

Yuzukoshō

Calbee makes snack foods such as potato chips that are flavored as yuzukoshō, but they are found in only certain locations.


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