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Quotes About Potato

They called the time an Gorta Mór, which means "the Great Hunger," or an Droch Shaol, "the Bad Times.
~ Ryan Hackney
the weather is such as I would favour if I were a potato-grower – or, more dubiously, if I were a potato.
~ John Leslie Mackie
The smell coming off my flesh had gone from simple stinkiness to something weird and almost appetizing, close to sour-cream-and-onion potato chips.
~ Eliot Schrefer
My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed.
~ Sally Gardner
Antoine-Auguste Parmentier was an eighteenth-century officer who popularized the potato in the French Army, and his name has ever since meant with potatoes.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Gaea was short and squat, built like a barrel. Her skin was weathered and brown. She had a nose like a potato. But there were laugh lines around the corners of her eyes and her sensuous mouth.
~ John Varley
Stell dir eine Kartoffel mit aufgemaltem Gesicht vor, dann weißt du ungefähr, wie er aussieht. Es war nicht schwer, sich auszumalen, wie sich im Innern dieser knubbeligen Kugel viel zu viele großartige Gedanken um Raum und Plätze zankten und aus Platzmangel nach außen drückten.
~ Barry Jonsberg
Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
~ Rachel Bilson
Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don't know if you've tasted crisps in other countries, but I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
~ Liz Truss
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
~ Michael Pollan
Do you eat cheese?" "Yes. Though I'm slightly lactose intolerant. My stomach wants to be vegan, but I can't do that to my tongue. Cheese is the greatest food in the world, alongside the potato." "The potato?" "Yes"..."The Potato is so versatile. Mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, scalloped potatoes, oh god, scalloped potatoes! Potato wedges, latkes, even a boiled potato is good. And then there's french fries, and chips. The potato is our saviour. The potato is magic.
~ Sarah Jackson
The slow ceiling fan sliced the thick, frightened air into an unending spiral that spun slowly to the floor like the peeled skin of an endless potato.
~ Arundhati Roy
The only healthy potato is a steamed organic sweet potato -Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker
~ Johnny Wowk
Smart," Varya said. "Lyubov ne kartoshka; ne vikinesh v okoshko. Means: love is not potato; can not throw out of window. Means: with love you stawck. Look on Nancy-Anastasia. My daughter. Beautiful? Yes. Happy? No. She and hawsband wait only divorce.
~ Bel Kaufman
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
~ Grant Morrison
I'm always down to try a new burger, but Shake Shack is still my top. What makes them so special is for the bread they use Martin's potato rolls which is just the best hamburger buns ever.
~ Aziz Ansari
I love cooking and eating - I'm a total foodie. It started off as a survival thing as a student, when cheese and potato pie was all I could afford to make. My most successful results come from concocting something with leftovers. Any chef will tell you that you should taste as you cook, so I might make it a bit more spicy, yogurty or eggy.
~ Neil Morrissey
He tossed the potato up and down, up and down, a thin smile creeping out from the corners of his mouth.
~ Sharon Cameron
These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.
~ Glenn Martinez
Lou Ann's life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat potato salad was to stick your head in the refrigerator and eat it in there.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.
~ Nick Offerman
We have 11 great potato flavors, and customers have been clamoring for tortilla. For over a year, we worked to develop the four flavors of tortilla popchips: chili limon, nacho cheese, ranch and salsa. They're made with traditional stoneground masa, are gluten-free, and have less than half the fat of other chips.
~ Keith Belling
The greatest biodiversity of an species is typically found in the place where it first evolved -- where nature first experimented white all the possibilities what an apple, or a potato or peach, could be.
~ Michael Pollan
We lived on a potato farm my dad and three boys. My parents parted when I was young. My mother and sisters lived nearby, but not with us.
~ Mike Webster