Potato parties: the worst kids' food fad ever?
South Korean kids have taken to ordering huge amounts of fries in McDonald's, dumping them on to trays and photographing themselves stuffing their faces
A South Korean potato party.
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They call it a "potato party". Want to throw one? It isn't hard: head out to your local McDonald's and order a near-fatal amount of fries. Ditch the paper packaging and pour them out on to as many plastic trays as they will fill. Take a photo, stick it up online, then stuff your face.
It's a way of eating McDonald's staff are not especially keen to encourage. At least not in South Korea – the latest country to fall prey to the carb-feast fad – where a group of around a dozen children have been kicked out of the restaurant after attempting to eat $250-worth (£165) of fries.
According to Asian news site RocketNews24, the stunt so enraged one member of staff that he yelled at them: "Stop causing trouble, you brats! Get out of here!" It brought their fun to an early – and considerably healthier – end. But a photograph of the kids' salty banquet – which filled 16 plastic trays – has since done the rounds online. Where, to be fair, it's one of many.
It all began in Japan. Last October, Japanese McDonald's stores held a sale on large French fries and a handful of opportunistic kids leaped at the chance to book their places in the eating fad history books (which are, admittedly, as yet unwritten). It started with one group's photo of 23 large cartons of fries, swiftly retweeted several thousand times.
Things escalated. Kids in Okinawa tweeted a photo of themselves with 40 packs, and soon after a group in Okayama upped the ante with a three-hour-long 60-pack feast, which they ate under a specially printed "60" balloon.
Staff, parents and children's stomachs will not be happy, but it looks as if the stakes are still rising.
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Send these pictures to NK?
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That'd be the worst torture...
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Like I said, they install hangovers at McDonald's.
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Clinton Huxley wrote:News for potato industry professionals, here:-
http://www.potatopro.com/News.aspx
The end is nigh.US Potato Growers Converge on Capitol Hill
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For all of your potato needs and more, the Potato Council.
http://www.potato.org.uk/latest-news
Good on 'em, I too agree that the potato supply chain should be future-proofed.
http://www.potato.org.uk/latest-news
Good on 'em, I too agree that the potato supply chain should be future-proofed.
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They do make good fries though, at least as fast food goes.
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Clinton Huxley wrote:For all of your potato needs and more, the Potato Council.
http://www.potato.org.uk/latest-news
Good on 'em, I too agree that the potato supply chain should be future-proofed.
By Thor, had I been copy editor, I'd have taken out the "Council R&D."Potato Council R&D head wins coveted award
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Curley fries at Arby's is gooder.Tyrannical wrote:They do make good fries though, at least as fast food goes.
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Problem: not a single Arby's in Korea.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Curley fries at Arby's is gooder.Tyrannical wrote:They do make good fries though, at least as fast food goes.
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I'll send you some.FBM wrote:Problem: not a single Arby's in Korea.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Curley fries at Arby's is gooder.Tyrannical wrote:They do make good fries though, at least as fast food goes.
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Thanks, but I've already got a Korea. One is enough so far.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:I'll send you some.FBM wrote:Problem: not a single Arby's in Korea.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Curley fries at Arby's is gooder.Tyrannical wrote:They do make good fries though, at least as fast food goes.
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I'm not seeing this as a problem...FBM wrote:Problem: not a single Arby's in Korea.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Curley fries at Arby's is gooder.Tyrannical wrote:They do make good fries though, at least as fast food goes.
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