'British Queens'

Great for chips, deep fried, none of your new fangled air frying

I honestly thought that was a political demonstration at first, especially as the posters are the same colour as the SWP placards.

Potatoes are vastly more important than politics.

THE POTATO-RELATED *IS* POLITICAL

"roosters". Somebody can't spell "Desirée".

You don’t want to hear someone from the Northside pronounce “Desirée” :)

Just did it in my head so thanks for that, it'll linger.

It’ll trickle out the ears.

(which is in itself odd since it's originally a Dutch potato. Should be called "rodeardappell" or something)

This must happen

A potato-related obelisk!

Another entry from Sweden, and still nothing from Britain

Japan, too...

The French don’t have a potato monument that I’m aware of, but make up for it by decorating the grave of their greatest potato champion with…

Well, of course their license plates mention potatoes. I mean, why wouldn’t they?

Well, it’s not a monument as such, but it is Very Good Work

And in Oxford, there are museum-quality therapeutic potatoes. Now we’re getting somewhere

Also, thank you to @ewacat.bsky.social for reminding me about Incan potato goddess Axomamma. This particular version of her is housed in Das Kartoffelmuseum (The Potato Museum) in Munich

1 potato = 1 respect

is that a bong

LOVE HER

Scotland has gone the other way, of course, and named a potato after a very potato-esque island

I had to find out more, and this site says it's just onions and tomatoes (and more worryingly that one small island is the source of granite for curling stones. Is there enough....?)

(sorry for non-potato-related confusion. You say potato, I say tomato, let's curl the whole thing off)

I think so. And ...I have an Ailsa Craig granite curling stone. Not sure how it ended up in my GF's pub in Dorset, after which it held grandma's garden gate open for 40 years, but it's now moved back north to the Scottish Borders. Totally forgot about it till you mentioned it! Here you go...

Except it hasn't... My mistake. Tomato not potato. Standing by for justified torrent of abuse from the online vegetable gardening community

Some of those people actually have pitchforks, too

That's because the English are so bone-headed and arrogant that they think they invented the potato, and that it only exists in the form of frozen chips.

I once dragged some long-suffering friends to this. It marks the spot that Walter Raleigh first planted potatoes in Ireland. A simple obelisk with his name on - sadly - not a giant potato The house was in ruins at the time, since restored en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killua_...