(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A four-ton tater will be on display for one day only on Friday, March 6, at a Colorado Springs restaurant.
The Big Idaho® Potato Truck is the world’s largest potato on wheels, weighing in at four tons. That’s about 21,562 medium-sized Idaho® potatoes.
In answer to your question, no, it’s not real. The Idaho Potato Commission said a potato of that size would take approximately 7,000 years to grow, and it would take about two years just to bake it. However, if it were real, the commission said it could make a whopping 20,217 servings of mashed potatoes and about a million average-sized fries…