Slightly sweet and purple in color, the potatoes, named Purple Orchid Three, are bred from seeds that mutated while being carried aboard a Chinese spacecraft, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Monday.

Story Highlights
- Purple Orchid Three 'space potato' is sweet, purple in color

- Restaurants are serving it fried, in salads, as desserts or drinks

- China has reportedly produced other mutated fruits and vegetables

- Seeds exposed to space radiation, capsule pressure and weightlessness

Where No Spud Has Gone Before

Damn.

The by-line indicated the goofy bastard might have gotten laid.

But I'll go ahead and drink this beer I opened in celebration anyways.

Phunny Phlagg phor Pince! (TM)

DethSpud has been higher than the Chinese space ship is before, I am sure. The Chinese aren't the only ones with herbal "remedies".

Purple mutant space potatoes! Sounds like a sci-fi movie from 1953

Hans purely fuggin' RAWKS!

Spuds in Spaaaaaaaace!

Woo Hoo! Spud is mighty chuffed by this.

"Slightly sweet and purple in color, the potatoes, named Purple Orchid Three, are bred from seeds that mutated while being carried aboard a Chinese spacecraft, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Monday."

Slightly sweet and purply?

Even if it don't taste good you can prolly dry it up and smoke it.

"The by-line indicated the goofy bastard might have gotten laid."

Sadly, no, but is Spud thanx Mao fer the optimism.

"DethSpud has been higher than the Chinese space ship is before, I am sure"

Is that wot that l'il ship was?

They look like ants from here sez Spud!

On topic?

Spud finds it weird how the last large communist country is turning out to be the ultimate capitalists.

Space potatoes? We got 'em!
Organs harvested from prisoners? Got 'em!
Tiger Ball Soup? By the barrel!

Apparently the less morals you have the more success you haff in business. Go figure.

Be Well.

PS: Work now! Fridays go fast!

Read title--knew Spud would have to be here.

Read article--Sweet and purple--methinks they might have crossed potato and chronic.

Wonder if you get high just eatin em?

Dragonlady

Wonder if you get high just eatin em?

Dragonlady
KEWL! With my thing for mashed potatoes-you can get mashed to get smashed....
get baked to get "baked"....
do fried to get "fried"....
Sounds like a winner to me.....

"OH give me a home-where the buffalo roam-"
And I'll show you a place to NOT walk around in yer stockin' feet.....

FF for Frank

Ya know I aint walkin there in my stockin feet.

Dragonlady

"Spuds in Spaaaaaaaace!"

Tip o' the Tilley to you, my friend!

Hans

bred from seeds that mutated while being carried aboard a Chinese spacecraft,

"Splains alot," as our denizen of fruitbat territory would sez...

So I'm guessin' they shot down that sattelite cause it was gonna bite into one the potato ships?

Having boldly gone where no spud has before, Chinese space potatoes are now the latest culinary fad to hit the country's ultra-trendy commercial hub of Shanghai.

Personally, I prefer Canadian space potatoes myself.

"Where No Spud Has Gone Before"

Damn.

The by-line indicated the goofy bastard might have gotten laid.

But I'll go ahead and drink this beer I opened in celebration anyways.

Posted by Pinche_Mao at 2007-02-15 10:37 PM

Gave you a big, ol' funny flag for that one, Pinche. Thanks for my one big laugh of the day!