[mikrofon]

"Potatoes, mash em, boil em, improves reception too!"

[alloysteel]

My first thought was, the potatoes are being used as some new kind of antenna to pull in the otherwise spotty signals on high-altitude flights, much like they absorb microwaves in microwave ovens.

But then, wouldn’t they just explode, unless a number of fork-punctures were put in them first?