Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head! Such a lovely couple although the mister’s bow tie is a bit starchy.
I remember them as a kid. Do you? Back then they were the real deal – or perhaps I should say “the raw deal”.
Our moms always scolded us about playing with our food and then Hasbro messed with our heads by telling us to do just that. No wonder so many Baby Boomers are now in therapy!
Oh, the irony!
These days The Pot Heads are made entirely of plastic. I admit they’re much less messy but where’s the charm, the appeal, the joie de vie?
Such sweet memories but troubling ones, as well. Whenever we played with the real Potato Heads, there was always a side of mash with dinner that night. When I finally made the awful connection that I was eating my playmates, it was too late.
Oh, the humanity!
RIP, Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head. You gave your all for a tasty cause! 🥔
NAR © 2023
The Elephant's Trunk 
The hits keep coming with this post. Funny! 🥔🥔
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Thanks Michele! It isn’t a party without the Pot Heads! 🥸 🥳
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🪴🪴🎉 😂
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Jay Leno got joking about Mr. Potato Head one night, talking about trying to explain it to a kid in Africa….
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That must have been pretty weird!
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It was hilarious. Wish I coul find it….
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Yeah, I bet it was. I looked and couldn’t find it.
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I love this vintage commercial. I need to send it to my kids. I don’t think they believed me when I told them when I was I child we played with real raw potatoes. They acted as if I were looney. All they knew were the plastic ones.
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Isn’t that a great commercial? Now you have the proof you need that you’re far from looney! Glad I was able to help you out. Kids!
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I suspect that the plastic ones have designated holes for the pieces. It was much more fun to stick the hat on the bum or the ears on top of the head.
Barbie was able to fly much further than GI Joe.
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Absolutely right about the designated holes. Nothing’s left to the imagination any more; it was so much more fun when we were kids.
Please! GI Joe can’t compare to Barbie. They were shorter and stockier – couldn’t fly worth a damn! Ken, on the other hand, wasn’t afraid to show his feminine side!
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Ken, the original accessory. He had no choice but to be good natured. I know he had to do a lot of cross-dressing, but just went with the flow.
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😂 😂 Then they came out with Devin or Gavin or whatever his name was. He was the real gay Ken. Boy, that was pretty radical back then!
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Yes, it was N.!
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Geeza!
They are giving a hard time to boys playing with toy guns … while you’ ve been eating your playmates?!!🤣
I can only say…Aye!
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Hahaha! I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. 🍷
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I only know of them via the movie. The Toy Story.
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Oh Sadje! You don’t know what you’re missing!
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I remember making stamps out of potatoes! Does that counts? 😂
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Now that’s something I’ve never heard of! 😂
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🥹🥹🥹
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I remember doing that in elementary school!
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Stamps out of potatoes? Ah, you mean designs with ink or dye? Now that’s familiar, yes. The things we forget!
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Yes we did that in elementary school too. I remember carving simple shapes in a potato half and then stamping using water colors.
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I didn’t have a Mr Potato Head at home, but our neighbour did, so I mutilated their potatoes at their house. They had a game called Operation, too, which I didn’t have at home, so I played that game at the neighbour’s house also. I played a lot at the neighbour’s house!
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Haha! It always seems to work out that way. One kid has all the newest games and the other kids end up at his/her house. Great for the parents who don’t have the games! We had Operation; how we laughed when that buzzer went off. Now when my grands play and that buzzer goes off, I cringe. It sounds awful! We had Cootie, too. I can’t remember the premise behind that one but we’d all scream “Ew! You have cooties!” Screaming was a required element of all those games. 😂
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Cootie was a bug game. Roll dice and add legs, head etc. Now if you tell me that you sat Barbie on your record player’s turn table, turned it on 78rpms, and measured how far Barbie flew across the room …. well, then I’ll know we’re related.
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Of course, her legs had to be spread and arms up in the air for the best projection! You mean all girls didn’t do that?
I also only wear clothes with pockets. He he he.
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😂😂 as if more proof were needed. 🥰
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No! Real potatoes only for this one! 😳🥸🤣
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Yes! Let’s hear it for the pot heads! 🥔
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…or dirt.
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Oh yes! When the plastic ones came out, I stopped playing with them! 🥔😁 It wasn’t the same. No squirty sound.
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Squirty sounds!! They did have a tendency to wet themselves!! 🤣
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😁🥔😁
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