Some people take their jobs too seriously. Take the head of the Washington State Potato Commission. Sounds crucial to me, y’all.Anyway, this guy Chris Voight ate nothing but spuds for two months as a promotional gimmick of some sorts. He actually lost 20 pounds and ended up sounding like Barry Fitzgerald and was so starchy that his shirts ironed themselves. <rim shot>
Despite his disclaimers to the contrary, I suspect Mr. Potato Head was so sick of spuds that he burst into the Kinks song below when the diet ended:
As you may have gathered, the narrator of the song was an unemployed layabout whose wife tormented him by feeding him nothing but spuds. Unlike the guy in Washington state, the dude in the song cracked under the potatoey pressure. I’m unsure, however, if he became a masher as a result. <baboom>