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Potato Museum?!?!?
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Where I come from, potatoes are an integral part of life; hardly a day goes by without consuming potato chips, French fries, mash potatoes or some other variation on the versatile spud. In fact, as I write this, I'm boiling potatoes right now to make some mash.
Personally, I would argue that potatoes are the unsung heroes of American cuisine; I can't believe someone hasn't built a shrine to our spudsy friend.
Well, look no further. If you happen to be passing through Prince Edward Island--Canada's smallest province--and looking for something to do, swing on by the Prince Edward Island Potato Museum. You can't miss it; a 14-foot tall russet potato stands at the entrance.
The museum itself is an astounding 7,000 sqaure feet and packed with, according to the website, "the largest exhibit of potato artifacts in the world!"
Man, I love potatoes, but life must be awfully boring on Prince Edward Island to spend time amassing the largest exhibit of potato artifacts in the world. Nonetheless, if you're in town, check it out. What else are you going to do?
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Crabby McSlacker Jul 24th 2007 12:53AM
We actually went to the damn potato museum, although it was closed. (Just as well, probably).
We had no particular interest in potatoes but had stupidly started a picture collection of Oversized Animals and Produce on our road trip. We had giant blueberries and cows and corn and lobsters and all sorts of silly things, so we needed the potato.
PEI is pretty and peaceful, but if you're not a big Anne of Green Gables aficionado there's not a lot in the way of tacky tourist attractions. Thus, I guess, the Potato museum.
(Crabby has a health blog which is certainly tacky, but not much of a tourist attraction. However, if you're game for the Potato museum, you just might be silly enough for http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/)
Andrew Jul 24th 2007 11:41AM
FYI - 2008 is International Year of the Potato. (It's dolphins in 2007. Really.)
Lex Jan 20th 2009 8:46PM
What's 2009?
Reg W. Aug 8th 2007 11:41AM
PEI is not a boring place at all.It has some of the finest golf courses anywhere. Great lobster dinners and the nicest people to be found anywhere in the world. And potatoes, yes. McDonald's is their biggest customer.