Those who have known me for a while will have heard me wonder many times why everything in American restaurants has to pumped up and named, in particular idaho potatoes. I've always figured there were 3 options:
Some freak of geography and geology has resulted in idaho having some special soil that grows the perfect, ambrosia, food of the gods potato, or
Nuclear testing in the 50s led to the growth of giant, self cooking mutant potatoes, or
Idaho is soooo boring that the most interesting thing in the place is to potato. I always leaned toward this explanation.
Having now driven across most of southern idaho and seen the potato fields, I think I was right on the third count. However, it turns out that the first US experimental nuclear reactors were all built in the middle of the spud patch, there may be something to the second option.....
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