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Ton of mashed potato flakes missing (Terror alert?)
NY Daily News ^ | 07/18/2003

Posted on 07/18/2003 8:55:44 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative

Ton of mashed potato flakes missing

CLARK, S.D. - The Potato Day celebration at Clark would not be the same without the mashed potato wrestling, so organizers were a little unnerved to learn that 2,000 pounds of dry mashed potato flakes were missing.

McCain Foods USA, which closed its Clark french fry plant in March 2002, left behind a five-year supply of the flakes. It takes about 500 pounds of flakes mixed with water to make a 12-inch layer of mashed potatoes in the wrestling ring.

Five-hundred pounds were used last year, but no one knows where the rest went; they may have disappeared during the ongoing community clean up of the former potato processing plant.

A potato processor in Grand Forks, N.D., eventually provided 500 pounds for Potato Day on Saturday and 500 pounds for next year.

That left organizers looking only for a cement mixer to mix the 500 pounds of flakes with 300 gallons of water.

"When it's finished, it is slimy, it is slippery and it is thick," said Greg Furness, chairman of Potato Day.


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(Just kidding about the terror alert)
1 posted on 07/18/2003 8:55:44 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Cole Slaw works better.
2 posted on 07/18/2003 8:56:42 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: All
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3 posted on 07/18/2003 8:58:09 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Cole Slaw works better.

Nah - Lime Jello!!!!!!

4 posted on 07/18/2003 8:58:34 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Tons of mashed potato flakes missing (Terror alert?),

Tons of flakes have have been showing up on FR on a daily basis....mystery solved.

5 posted on 07/18/2003 9:07:31 AM PDT by Neets
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

All your mashed potato flakes are belong to us!!

You have no chance to survive, make your gravy!

6 posted on 07/18/2003 9:45:46 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Ain't nothing worse than feeling obsolete....)
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To: Neets
No no no, the flakes are all in the DNC.
7 posted on 07/18/2003 2:29:59 PM PDT by EuroFrog (Surviving the deployment of my husband by the grace of God.)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Cole Slaw works better.

I got one word for that......

Eeeeewwwwwwwww!

8 posted on 07/18/2003 2:32:06 PM PDT by EuroFrog (Surviving the deployment of my husband by the grace of God.)
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