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Track your spuds online

A eulogy in five parts
Wed Jul 31 2002, 13:02
WONDER WHAT'S HAPPENED to your King Edwards, your Cornish King, your dehydrated potato flake or other varieties of spuds?

Wonder no more. The world wide web can track your bag of the most versatile vegetable across the Wibbly Wobbly Web.

Yes. A potato is a marvellous thing. You can sautee them, you can fry them, you can roast them, you can boil them, you can bake them and you can turn them into chips (fries) or crisps (chips).

The New World also gave us the tomato, tobacco and chillies, as well as burgers, Superman and William Randolph Hearst, but the potato surely wins over all of these, even though you can't smoke it.

Go to Potato Info Org to find out where your bag is right now and where it came from.

There once was a British trade publication called Successful Potato which sadly now appears to have vanished. But the humble spud-u-like lives on... µ

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