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How Many Things can be Made from Potatoes?

Tuesday October 27, 2009

Idaho PotatoThe original name for french fries was "potatoes, fried in the French manner" that is how Thomas Jefferson first described the dish. Did you that Luther Burbank was granted a patent for the Idaho Potato posthumously? Or that Mr Potato Head was patented in 1952?

Photo: Rick Hall

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