# Introducing: the iPotato **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887 "2009-07-22T19:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/1 "2009-07-22T19:24:10Z")
> [@](#): > > German authorities said a British man has been arrested for allegedly conning people into buying potatoes disguised as iPods and other electronics. Presumably, these people had sacks of potatos between their ears. [Linky.](http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/21/Police-Conmen-switched-potatoes-for-iPods/UPI-95301248218598/) ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/2 "2009-07-22T23:59:21Z")
Does that mean you have to wear ear “spuds” to listen to music? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/3 "2009-07-23T00:00:08Z")
It doesn’t need a camera. It has eyes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/4 "2009-07-23T00:21:30Z")
iYam what iYam. ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/5 "2009-07-23T00:22:24Z")
It should be called the Fry-Pod ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/6 "2009-07-23T00:39:28Z")
(I should have titled this thread, “You say potato, I say iPod”). ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/7 "2009-07-23T16:10:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Investigators said the man and a second suspect, a 20-year-old British man whom police are searching for, pretended to be down-on-their-luck tourists selling second-hand iPods, laptop computers and camera equipment but would switch the bags after purchases were made so the victims walked off with sacks of potatoes instead of the electronics, The Sun reported Tuesday. Well that’s just disappointing. I was hoping that they’d actually carved the potatoes to look like iPods. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/8 "2009-07-23T19:06:03Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Well that’s just disappointing. I was hoping that they’d actually carved the potatoes to look like iPods. Me too, was hoping for a pic of a potato carved out to perfectly encase the Ipod. Then connect some headphones into a hole on the side of the potato, clip it to your belt, and look like a whacko listening to a potato. Now I kinda wanna carve a potato for my mp3 player, lol ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/9 "2009-07-23T22:03:47Z")
It has no a-peel for me. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/10 "2009-07-23T22:25:31Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Well that’s just disappointing. I was hoping that they’d actually carved the potatoes to look like iPods. I was actually hoping for a Mr. Potatohead kind of thing. A regular potato with plastic thumbwheel/screen/headphone jack stuck into it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/11 "2009-07-24T20:10:18Z")
#1 download: The Monster Mash. Won’t get fried in the rain. Will in oil. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/12 "2009-07-24T23:02:02Z")
Man, Mac fanboys will buy _anything_ if you stick an Apple logo on it. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-the-ipotato/503887/13 "2009-07-24T23:55:35Z")
I thought I’d try to come up with another witty spud-related pun, but then I realized that I was just looking for an excuse to post in this thread. … 😃