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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Nah - Lime Jello!!!!!!
Tons of flakes have have been showing up on FR on a daily basis....mystery solved.
All your mashed potato flakes are belong to us!!
You have no chance to survive, make your gravy!
I got one word for that......
Eeeeewwwwwwwww!
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