Fun Fact Friday - Spud Love

I love potatoes. I always have; I always will. I think I once had a pet potato. Then we ate him at dinner. This is getting a little too real. Time for a fun fact!

Fun fact: Mr. Potato Head was the first toy marketed on TV.

Please note the absence of a potato.

Mr. Potato Head, which I keep accidentally writing as "my potato head," was created in 1952. He was originally just a bunch of push pin parts of a face - that's right, no potato included. This makes my pet potato a little less weird right? And it's okay that we ate him before he rotted? I'm going to say yes.

Apparently Hasbro received complaints about kids playing with rotting food and had to start including the plastic potato body. Also, Mr. Potato Head used to be a smoker, but he quit in the 1980s. Now, Mr. Potato Head is masquerading as Darth Tater (full disclosure: not my pun, that's really his name).

"I'm too adorable to be evil, bitch." - Darth Tater

Darth Tater gives parents a great opportunity to teach their children about the dark side. And carbohydrates!