Potato Head -- Preferred Pronouns

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve been hearing today about Hasbro’s renaming “Mr. Potato Head” as simply “Potato Head”. It’s on a lot of radio talk shows. But it’s not really true.

Here’s the Hasbro announcement posted online:

https://corporate.hasbro.com/en-us/articles/create_your_potato_head_family_launching_this_fall

So they just seem to be renaming the product line “Potato Head”, rather than “Mr. Potato Head”. Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head will apparently still exist, and be labeled in their boxes that way. It’s not a case of Political Correctness run amok, or of people finally recognizing that potatoes do not, indeed, have a gender orientation.

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Can I make a teenager fast food Potato Head? Just so he could ask “Do you want fries with that?”.

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When I was a kid, each foot was a separate item, each going into a separate hole in the bottom. When did they start wearing pants?

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People are losing their minds over this and it’s hilarious. One woman today posted, “You’ve lost a loyal customer Hasbro! I mean who on earth gets offended about a toy potato?!”

Who, indeed?

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Who the hell cares what pronoun someone wants to use? Jesus H Christ, some folks need to get over themselves.

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If you read the OP, you’d know that the answer is “not Hasbaro”

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So kids can make Tater Tots?

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Originally you had to supply your own potato. I just missed that era, I got* the plastic one that had holes too small to fit the pieces.

*my brother’s toy, actually

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:laughing: Now I want tater tots.

Mr. Potato Head as a brand reflects the patriarchial society. I welcome this change to the brand, because not everything has to be gendered. At least not in the English language. It’s similar to the question, when did Mrs. Hisname become Mrs. Hername. I guess in this case that Mrs. Potato Head’s maiden name was also Potato Head. Not that uncommon.

Now will there be a Ms. Spud?

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Yeah, the one I had as a kid had just the pieces, you had to supply the potato. But then it got all shriveled and moldy with vines growing out of odd places.

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This is the set we had.

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I was in the pre-plastic generation that had to use actual potatoes.It seemed weird to me when they came out with plastic potatoes to fit the body parts into.

I suspect one reason for the change was that it was too easy and too common for kids to put away Mr. Real Potato Head into the toy box or under the bed and forget about him for a while, only to come back to a Mr. Potato Head with a sprouting beard. Or (if you left him long enough) a Valdemaresque stinking oozing mess.

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“mixing and mashing”. Ha!

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Have they ditched the pipe?

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I remember hearing this complaint before and wondering why you didn’t just stick the plastic arms and legs into a potato.

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A propos, one of the most awesome songs ever graces the titular potato head with neither pronoun nor title:

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Yeah, 35 years ago.