Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/09/visit-the-worlds-largest-potato-masher-in-plover-wisconsin.html
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Having seen the world’s largest purpose-built potato masher I’m curious about what the largest functional one would be. There has to be some sort of alarming mining or industrial equipment that’s supposed to be for large scale froth flotation recovery of challenging ores or ensuring reaction uniformity in large scale batch process reaction vessels or something; but which could totally mash potatoes on the sort of scale that would require one of those dedicated rail delivery systems that coal power stations commonly come with.
(edit: I suspect that the engineers involved would be deeply, deeply, unhappy with me subjecting their carefully optimized work to a bingham plastic; but, given the stories I’ve been told of “turbine induced stress” I have to wonder if you could adapt a hydropower turbine to potato-processing, potentially with multiple units chained serially for the transition from potato to starch grain homogenate. You can get some big hydro turbines.)
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Contributed by Jennifer Sandlin
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I see your potato masher, and raise you Casey, IL
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I’ve been to Casey. Most of those giant things have bible verses plastered all over them. And they were all (except two) built by a local businessman. It’s a good stop if you need to bolster your “world’s largest” list, but it lacks authenticity, in my opinion.
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What makes a Big Thing authentic? I assume all the other ones were also built by local businesses to attract tourists?
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That thing is making some people in Idaho nervous.
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That’s America for ya…
That’s true of lots of roadside attractions… they’re often were built to drive foot traffick.
Actually, everyone knows that road side attractions were just places of power that in other parts of the world would have ended up with a religious… something. In America, commerce is our religion, so we build weird advertising shit instead. 
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Is it a graveyard smash?
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It truly is a Monster-masher.
enjoy the ear worm
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I don’t know art, but I know what I like. And this is great.
The nonprofit’s mission statement is a little vague. But good for them for doing something, whatever that something happens to be.
Farming for the Future Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our mission is simple, people want to know where their food comes from, and farmers want to share those stories. We want to create common ground where people can learn more directly from the industry without taking away from the important work that must be completed to feed the growing world.
That’s why the foundation exists. Its goal is to promote agricultural literacy, to increase the understanding of the origins of our food, and to deepen the relationship between farmers and consumers.
cool.
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…want some ham-radio nerd to assess what its RF capture spectrum looks like. Looks like it might pick up space alien lite rock.
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Gosh darn it!
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While you are there, check out the tube slides at their big water park or walk along the plover river. I did my first tube slide ever there!
Yes!!!
And you can hang them on a hook on the wall, avoiding the whole drawer drama.
Anyone not wanting to upset Anoia can rattle the odd drawer from time to time anyway, just in case.
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What possible need is there for parentheses… I’m guessing plausible deniablity?
