[cripplecreek]

Maybe it's really a matter of an inbred instinct to eat one entire potato. You know that a single french fry is really just a fraction of a potato and your subconscious is causing your body to try and gather the proteins and starches from and entire tater.

It's an ancient survival instinct. When ancient man found a potato he ate the entire thing because he realized that he may go many days without finding another potato and starvation was a real concern.

On the other hand it could be that the potatochip industrial complex is lacing your chips with a highly addictive cancer causing agent developed by pharmaceutical corporations to force you to buy their cancer drugs. Or maybe it's the JOOOOS

[Torie]

The Jooos angle is interesting. That requires research. Are the Jooos infiltrating Idaho?

[weatherwax]

Ah no. You are on the right track, but wrong. It's for the same reason you can never have just one martini. :(Well, I cant). Because there are undiscovered substances that race to your brain, (of course for some people, this theory falls down!), and flick the "Say no" switch to off. Then you just keep eating.