Thread: Crawfish Boil Today

No....but they COULD be...

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-Lou

I'm just tired of hearing "Oh - IDAHO POTATOES" anytime I leave the state! For Pete's Sake, we don't even GROW potatoes in North Idaho - all we have up here are mountains, trees, lakes and rivers!

But everywhere I go "Oh, the Potato State!"...good grief...they even put 'FAMOUS POTATOES' on our license plates, if you can believe that!

right now....crawfish sound PRETTY DARN GOOD!!!

-whatever

-Lou

Although, you know, Dude.....if you were to show up at a Potato Bake.....I'll bet it would turn into a lot of fun!

(...that's assuming, of course, that there was such a THING as a Potato Bake....which, of course, there isn't..)

-whatever

-Lou

Lou,

you're in Idaho...start a new tradition

I'm sure between you, me and Justin, we can make it fun.

Yeah Lou --- I figured you were trying to be comical but I needed to make sure. I was just checking out Idaho on the web ---- man , beautiful state --evidently the name "Idaho" was made up in kind of a joke or something? -- looks like most of the population is located in certain areas. But I promise I will not refer to Idaho as the potato state --- I'll just think to myself --- oh yeah that's the state with the made up name and limited population with a quasi maritime climate --- hot summers/low humidity -fairly cold winters --- but potatoes you say ? ---- I don't think so. .


Justin

Lou,
you're in Idaho...start a new tradition
I'm sure between you, me and Justin, we can make it fun.

Yeah, but trust me....no-way can we call it a Potato Bake...NO ONE would come.....maybe if we call it a 'New England Clam Bake', and then, when everybody gets here, we say 'Surprise...the Clams didn't show up....we'll just bake POTATOES!!!'...just make sure I'm out of the way when you drop THAT bomb!

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-Lou

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

---- man , beautiful state --

definitely

...evidently the name "Idaho" was made up in kind of a joke or something?

that's news to me - where'd you see that?

-- looks like most of the population is located in certain areas. But I promise I will not refer to Idaho as the potato state --- I'll just think to myself --- oh yeah that's the state with the made up name and limited population with a quasi maritime climate --- hot summers/low humidity -fairly cold winters --- but potatoes you say ? ---- I don't think so. .


Justin

we ALL thank you!

-Lou

EDIOT: And what do you mean '...trying to be funny'....that was GOOD stuff!

-L

Hey Lou,

Sorry about the potato reference. Apparently, my computer didn't show your previous post saying how tired you were of hearing that comment. I just caught up with all the postings and saw it.

Originally Posted by scarface

that's news to me - where'd you see that?



we ALL thank you!

-Lou

EDIOT: And what do you mean '...trying to be funny'....that was GOOD stuff!

-L

yeah that was definitely GOOD stuff --- the idea of people gathering for a potato bake is funny and made me start thinking that those Idaho folk needed to get out a little more --- maybe throw a couple of yams and sweet potatoes in there -- turnips , anything --- then I started picturing people with prized potato concoctions handed down over 10's of generations and imagined it could be possible ---hell, a little cheese, bacon,etc and the son of a bitch isn't even a potato anymore --- it's a freaking meal. But anyway I'll start calling them Montana potatoes or something

I got the "name Idaho from a joke" thing from Wikipedia.org --- I'm starting to think a lot of the stuff on that site is crap.

Justin

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

...I got the "name Idaho from a joke" thing from Wikipedia.org --- I'm starting to think a lot of the stuff on that site is crap.

Justin

Well, in the 37 years I've been here, I've never heard THAT story....that's not to say it isn't true....the explanation I've always heard is it's from 'EE-DA-HOW', which, so the story goes, was Blackfoot tribal language for 'The sun shines on the mountain'...but, hell, for all I know, it could be Piute for ....




....'WHAT!...Potatoes AGAIN??!"

-whatever

-Lou