Originally published at: The first Mr. Potato Head commercial hit the airwaves on this day in 1952 | Boing Boing
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They tried to expand the Mr. Potato Head line, but it didn’t sell very well:
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I kind of like his genesis being as a set of ornaments for actual potatoes.
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“What’s this plastic ear doing in my potato salad?!”
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Came here for this.
“Eez potato!”
Those potatos look kinda weird.
Did potatos change over the last decades?
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Yes, potatoes look different now.
The growth in demand for fries and chips has caused growers to select for larger, longer potatoes.
A shift in cooking habits means people are not cooking potatoes at home as much, so stores have reduces the number of varieties they stock. Usually they just stock one kind of red (and a small version of red) and one kind of brown, and a large baking type.
The shrinking of available varieties means potato processors must be more discerning about which ones make it to the shelves and which ones get processed into other products. So you are less likely to find a weird potato now.
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Either that, or the potato farmers have been getting a lot denser.
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