Who in the fuck says po-tah-to?!1

[Joe Shlabotnik]

No one. And I mean no one, ever, in real life refers to a potato as a po-tah-to, unless being absurdly contrarian. This has been bothering me all day since my drive into work listening to my usual jazz station.

[Xipe Totec]

1. I celebrate the magnitude of your irritations

My you continue to be irritated by first world annoyances.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. !

[Xipe Totec]

13. Perspective is a good coping mechanism. Humor is also.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

14. Agree, but Earworm,

Can't our vast and amazing medical establishment cure that yet!?

[Xipe Totec]

17. Well, there's ear worms and there's ear worms...

[Joe Shlabotnik]

19. That was probably the only thing I can still remember

from that movie.

[IcyPeas]

3. Christopher Walken does.... that's who.....

https://videopress.com/v/iFkACAP6?at=86

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. Christopher Walken gets a pass,

because he knows about cooking.

[BlueJazz]

4. Ah...I do sometimes. I'm sorry.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

10. mmm really?

And how did you arrive at casual use of that pronunciation?

[BlueJazz]

16. I learned it from my mother. I remember her going shopping in Sydney every so often.

We owned a farm with sheep 'bout 40 kilometers from town. I remember her speaking different than some Australians.
I think? my ancestors were political prisoners when Australia was settled. My distant great, great..Etc ..grandfather was an English first mate on one of the first ships. Or so the story goes.

Anyway, that's why I sometimes say potahto.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

18. ok, you get a free pass along with Christopher Walken

You're in good company at least.

[Ron Obvious]

6. Nobody I've ever met...

I've always suspected it was false balance created to rhyme with to-mah-to for that song.

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. That's an easy question,

people like this:







That's who. They say to-mah-to also.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. I think they might say to-mah-to

but still, po-tah-to is too much of a reach for even them.

[panader0]

9. Let's call the whole thing off.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

11. before

a cornflake-po-tah-to war erupts?

[panader0]

12. Ella and Louie

[Joe Shlabotnik]

15. thats what starting my morning off!

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Why, Thurston Howell III, of course

[Joe Shlabotnik]

21. Bravo Lovey

[malthaussen]

22. Of course, the question is rhetorical...

... but I imagine it was a more common pronunciation in 1935 than it is in 2015.

-- Mal

[madinmaryland]

23. Lighten up, Francis...

[hay rick]

24. Tahterguy.

Fuckin' Ah.

[kwassa]

25. You effete snob. Everyone knows it is tayterguy.

Except tahterguy, himself.

[MasonDreams]

26. Wapato is a city in washington state, and the Yakama native american word for potato.

That there 'tater is so big if you dropped it, it would really whop a toe.
There is no h in the correct pronunciation though wah-pah-toe.