Happy Thoughts: Potato (patatas)

While in the grocery one random weekday, Jai saw this heart shaped potato.

I had to have my picture taken with it. I find it interesting to see naturally formed shapes in potatoes and other veggies and fruits. I remember watching Little Lulu (a cartoon) where Lulu and her friends found shaped potato figures of themselves.

Here’s the story from Little Lulu:

Season 2 Episode 20

 Potato Kids: When Lulu and Mrs. Moppet peel potatoes, she finds one that looks exactly like Tubby. When she goes to show it to him, everyone thinks she's trying to harass him. Tubby then gets revenge by finding a potato that looks just like her. Lulu is offended, while Annie finds it hilarious, so Lulu finds a potato that looks just like Annie. Thus breaking the potato war. -grabbed from tv.com

I watched this episode in Grade school and since then I can’t help but be amazed to see naturally formed figures on food, marble floors/walls and even  clouds too (remember UP by Pixar?).

It’s fun to use your imagination anytime, anywhere even when you’re in the toilet: D 

BRAIN FOOD: 10 Potato Facts grabbed from Go Live Life

• Potatoes were first eaten more than 6,000 years ago by indigenous people living in the Andes mountains of Peru.
• The Incas measured time by how long it took for potatoes to cook.
• Religious leaders denounced the potato because it wasn't mentioned in the Bible.
• Potatoes are the world's fourth food staple - after wheat, corn and rice.
• Potatoes are grown in more than 125 countries (even in space - in 1995).
• Every year enough potatoes are grown worldwide to cover a four-lane motorway circling the world six times.
• China is the world's largest potatoe producer.
• Namibians each eat an average of 110 kilograms of potatoes every year - not quite as much as the Germans consume.
• In 1778 Prussia and Austria fought the Potatoe War in which each side tried to starve the other by consuming their potato crop.
• During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush of the 1890's, potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded them for gold.

-The Other Book

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