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[-] theotherone@kbin.social 81 points 10 months ago

I think it’s a nice gesture to give the full-sized Russet rather than the fun size new potato.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

With sour cream, chives and bacon bits, a russet potato is a meal all by itself.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago

Just gobs of butter, salt, and pepper are all I need.

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[-] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

Kids just think they’re neat!

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago

Ironically, the spud is absurdly more expensive than giving candy.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago

It is like a dollar each, but the smiles on kids faces as they walk home with the beginnings of a stew are priceless

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 27 points 10 months ago

A dollar each? It's $3.50 for a 10lb bag here

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

What could a potato cost, 10 dollars?

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

It is like a dollar each

What the absolute fuck

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

‘It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?’

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What potatoes you buying are they gold encrusted?

Where I am you can basically get them by the crate load. I have no idea what one individual potato cost because I've never bought one individual potato. But my estimate would be about three for a dollar. Big ones like in the photo not little tiny ones.

Also don't get no ones in plastic wrapping they're more expensive and they're not any better. Just wash your vegetables. The mud and flavour admittedly it's mud flavour.

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Why are wrapped in plastic? Don't they usually come in some sort of netting and or loose and you can get as many as you like in a cloth bag?

[-] bufordt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Usually the ones individually wrapped in plastic are being sold as microwaveable.

I guess we'll just ignore the fact that you don't need to wrap a potato in plastic to microwave it successfully.

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

No way that can be true, how much for a kg of potatoes where you live

[-] funktion@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In the Philippines they're around 4$/kg where I live, and they're not even really nice potatoes.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

I need to check my potato privilege. They're less than 1€/kg here

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Vegetables are oddly over priced there, in general.

Even most fruit. Mangos though... Mangos, rice, beer and rum. Everything you need!

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

This trick only works so long as only one house in the neighborhood does it.

[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Obligatory: Po-tay-toes! Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew…

[-] Shanedino@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I have confirmed the results of this experiment. Some kids asked "what is this?" then took it once I told them it was a potato.

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

My folks have a sign on the door saying, "potato available upon request" and they run out of them every year.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Makes sense, potatoes are basically the candy of the vegetable world. Just a giant ball of starchy carbs.

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago
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[-] roofuskit@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

With the wrong crowd that potato goes through a neighbor's window and this experiment is over going forward.

[-] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

Anyone who can't be trusted with a potato is going to cause issues regardless

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[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

As if that'd just stop any kid picking up any random rock off the ground.

[-] wabafee@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

They should have IOU as an option, they use this IOU to claim more chocolate next holloween. Teaching kids finance while there at it.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

That's great until a few years down the line some kid shows up with a fat stack of them and cleans you of all the candy.

[-] Incandemon@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

Nah, its investing right? You just tell the kid there was a market crash and the IOUs are worthless, then keep the candy for yourself.

[-] lipilee@feddit.nl 11 points 10 months ago

Is this Russian halloween?

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Is dream. Potato is rock.

[-] mack7400@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The caption doesn't mention the other choice.

"Potato or death?"

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah but the kid question also apparently got a Snickers bar. So their taste is somewhat debatable.

I'd choose the potato as well but that's because I'm an adult and really don't care about candy

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

But Snickers is the manliest chocolate bar because it has nuts.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

"Am I a joke to you?!"

-Payday

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

My house is the Pickle House!

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Did you want to cause a run on potatoes? Because this is how you cause a run on potatoes

[-] s3rca@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago
[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

In mother Russia.... is potato

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Potatoes and molasses!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Next thing you know, there's an evil AI running on dozens of potatoes

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