+++ "The potato is the world's greatest plant." W.F. Wright +++ You could once buy a ticket to the movies with a potato. +++ "The potato alone will sustain life in full vigor." S. Copeland +++ An American soldier was once court-martialed for destroying government property by peeling potatoes too thickly. +++ "One never tires of the non-aggressive flavor of the potato." Andre Simon +++Potatoes made possible the first color photography. +++ "(The potato) has proved one of the greatest blessings bestowed on mankind by the creator." Noah Webster +++ "If a man really likes potatoes, he must be a decent sort of fellow." A.A. Milne +++ A patent exists for making artificial flowers out of potatoes. +++ "There is no species of human food that can be consumed in a greater variety of modes than the potato." Sir John Sinclair +++ Potatoes are fed to severely malnourished infants when they can absorb nothing else. +++"Spuds Unearthed" was a crowd-pleaser at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC from May into October, 2010.+++ The Potato Bowl is an annual football classic played in Bakersfield, California. +++ "Human nature will not flourish anymore than the potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil." Nathaniel Hawthorne +++ The Colorado potato beetle was once a bone of contention during the Cold War. +++ "Faith is reborn whenever anyone chooses to take a good look at a potato." J.S. Collis +++ Potatoes are used in oil well drilling, the making of penicillin and for hundreds of other industrial applications. +++ "We eat potatoes at every meal, beginning with breakfast. In the evening we always have potatoes with gravy." Anne Frank +++ A French encyclopedia once defined potato as a "weapon against famine." +++ The American-born Benjamin Thompson, (Count Rumford,) introduced potatoes to Bavaria.+++ Potato alcohol once powered small appliances, street lights and the V1 and V2 rockets in Germany. +++ "Happy is the man who has a good wife, but I tell you happy is a man who has a south-facing slope where he can grow his potatoes." Anonymous +++ Potatoes are helping to solve the world food shortage. +++ "The value of the potato in calamity and wartime has been proved repeatedly. Anonymous +++ Potatoes are a good source of vegetable protein, with a ratio of protein to carbohydrate higher than in most cereals and other roots and tuber crops. +++ Beethoven composed music for the words of a popular German song praising the potato. +++ Mashed potatoes are touted as effective cures for hangovers. +++ "Today in the world as a whole the most important vegetable is the potato." Victor Boswell +++ Before the Irish had the nourishing potato, they ate shamrocks and oats.+++ "Even the potato has a certain low form of cunning." Samuel Butler +++ Over 100 place names in the USA contain the word "potato." +++ A type of linen cloth was made by Austrians from the stems of potato plants. +++ "The merriest-eyed potatoes, nursed in gloom, Just resurrected from their cradle tomb." Will Carleton +++ The origin of the word "pothole" refers to the shallow space in the dirt floor of an Irish cottage where a pot of potatoes was placed for mashing. +++