Decorated Taters

September 19, 2009 10:16 AM

Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft may finally help us understand what hardcore taters look like. (SFW)

We all love us some taters. The folks of Humboldt County, California expressed their love with a long running decorated potato contest at their county fair last month. Via Craftzine blog.

posted by fontophilic (9 comments total)

That's freakin' awesome.
posted by jayder at 11:07 AM on September 19, 2009

That's somehow tamer than I'd been led to expect.
posted by lekvar at 11:11 AM on September 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

The folks of Humboldt County, California expressed their love with a long running decorated potato contest at their county fair last month.

Thus proving that there are consequences to long-term marijuana use.
posted by The Whelk at 11:14 AM on September 19, 2009

Finally! More proof I can show my husband that all county fairs have the "weird collections" area.
He didn't believe me when I tried to explain this when we saw the year's worth of collie hair collection at our local fair. He was deeply freaked out.
posted by batgrlHG at 11:26 AM on September 19, 2009

There's a decorated vegetables contest at the Oregon State Fair as well. It's pretty cute (and for kids.)
posted by vespabelle at 12:35 PM on September 19, 2009

My god. With ponies. That's seriously hardcore.
posted by drlith at 1:05 PM on September 19, 2009

Cute stuff, but I still don't think we've found those elusive hard core taters yet.
posted by amyms at 1:19 PM on September 19, 2009

Wow, I grew up going to this county fair, and I absolutely cannot recall ever seeing this contest. My loss.
posted by mollymayhem at 12:47 PM on September 20, 2009

This self-link is for humor and to specify that the offer still stands, MeFi--unless these here California taters can be my hardcore taters. In which case I am keeping them.

Here I thought we were talking about..(snort...) C'mon don't make me say it. (blushing)
posted by JaiMahodara at 1:29 PM on September 20, 2009