Facts About Potatoes

Only the best potato facts by your favorite potato scientist

[potatofacts]

The solution to the heatwave is simple: be like potato. Enjoy the cool dirt. 👇

[potatofacts]

Not to be a hater on other foods but does anyone else here think that grocery store strawberries taste like fucking nothing? It’s like happy birthday here’s a homemade strawberry cake that tastes like sweet chalk and la croix. I could’ve sworn it didn’t use to be like this

[factbot]

More people die from eating caterpillars then from being eaten by them. This is due to a poison in them.

[potatofacts]

More people die from eating potatoes than being eaten by them. I wonder why…

[thegroovyarchives]

Vegetables Illustration From Carnation's Family Favorites by Mary Blake, 1956.

[potatofacts]

Going to make myself from franch fries. wish me luck

[potatofacts]

It is scientifically proven via MRI that if you think about potatoes your life will gain meaning

[potatofacts]

Do potatos have gluttony

Does your grandmother have wheels?

[potatofacts]

I could conduct a statistically viable study with amount of people who ask me if potatoes have gluten

[penny-anna]

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

[penny-anna]

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

[penny-anna]

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

[potatofacts]

How do you buy your potatoes?

Seedless

Non-GMO

GMO with seeds

Voting ended onJun 29

[thememedaddy]

[grenadineghost]

you want to be mommy’s adjective noun, don’t you, pet name? you want to verb and verb for mommy like a good gender

[alhyastarain]

you want to be mommy's weird potato, don't you, Brian? you want to skip and somersault like a good jester

[calidotgov-deactivated20240108]

congratulations piracy

[livefromtheloam]

Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?

Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!

[commandtower-solring-go]

Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?

10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]

[geekysteven]

[sentientstump]

blight is a funny word to me because all this time i thought wow its another word for light and then turns out my dear friends - the potatoes - are affected by it big time

[abstractfrog]

The potatoes know more than they are letting on :/

[deathbydyingpod]

HOW ARE YOU PEOPLE SO FAST???

This rules.

[homunculus-argument]

There's an above zero possibility that someone you know may one day casually say some shit like "I don't get why people like potatoes, I'd never eat them voluntarily, they just taste like vaguely bitter watery dirt and if you like the texture, you could literally just eat an apple instead" and that's how you find out that nobody in their family knows that you're supposed to cook them first.

[ao3org]

Errors Accessing AO3

We are investigating reports of errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down, which seem to be related to the previous incident. We will update when we have more information!

Posted: 22:36 UTC 02 March, 2026

[ao3org]

AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software.

We're working with our vendor's support team to understand the cause and whether reverting or upgrading further will best resolve the issue without continuing the cycle of up and downtimes.

We do not currently have an estimated time for when we will be back up, but we expect it to be multiple hours at minimum. We apologize for the inconvenience and will update you when we know more.

For updates refer to our status page.

Posted: 03:16 UTC 03 March, 2026

[ariadne-mouse]

Choose sustenance to put into the enclosure of Ao3 staff and volunteers

one william croissants

juice boxes sorted by flavor, expiration date, straw type, and carton size

simple hearty soups with grilled cheeses

a delectable array of tasty little fruits

hotpot with all the fixings

the 10,000 potatoes from the previous Ao3 battery, mashed and buttered

candy hearts with fic tags on them

Voting ended onMar 4