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Date ____________________

Modern Marvels – Potatoes

1. The original Pantry Diner was opened in ___________________________.

2. The potatoes at the Pantry Diner are cooked by _______________________________, not boiling.
3. The diner uses about _____________________ pounds of potatoes a day.
4. The average American consumes about _____________________ pounds of potatoes a year.
5. _____________________ ranks number one in potato consumption, ____________________ is number 2, and
____________________________________ is number five.
6. Name any of the varieties of chips made by Kettle Foods.
7. Unlike a lot of chip manufacturers, Kettle Foods doesn’t _____________________ the potatoes before cooking.
8. How many flavors of chips do they make? ________________________________
9. ______________ % of all US potatoes are Russet Burbank, Round White, and Round Red.
10. Potatoes were first grown as a food crop in the ___________________ about ______________ years ago.
11. Potatoes were brought to Europe in the _________ century by the ___________________________.
12. By the __________ century, the potato became a staple of the European diet.
13. Knish is a food made of cooked potatoes wrapped in _________________________ with spices and
_______________________ added.
14. Weiser Farms started growing potatoes about _____________________ years ago.
15. About _________________________________ of cropland is devoted to growing potatoes.
16. About __________________________________ tons of potatoes are harvested each year.
17. What two states dominated the potato market in the US?
18. Sterman Masser Farms harvests about ___________________________ of potatoes per acre per year.
19. A truckload of potatoes weighs about ______________________________ pounds.
20. The potato is a botanical relative of the _____________________ and _______________________________.
21. Potato ________________________ are poisonous to humans.
22. The part of the potato you eat is actually a _________________________.
23. The child aged pickers were paid ____________________ a barrel to pick up potatoes.
24. The use of GPS in farming equipment has resulted in a gain of about ___________% of production area.
25. The cull potatoes are used to make __________________________.
26. The Cold River production facility started out using about ____________________ pounds of potatoes a year.
27. They use ______________________________ pounds of potatoes a year now.
28. Cold River uses about ______________________ pounds of potatoes to make one bottle of vodka.
29. The vodka is made from potatoes because the sugar in the potatoes and east makes _______________.
30. The ethanol made from potato alcohol is about ___________________% pure alcohol.
31. Potato ethanol plus water makes ____________________________.
32. The average American eats __________________ servings of french fries a week.
33. At Ore Ida, the 1 acre underground storage cellar can hold about __________________________ pounds of
fresh potatoes, or enough to last the plant 10 days.
34. Tator tots were developed to make use of _____________________________________________.
35. The tator tots are frozen as ______________________________ degrees.
36. The variety of potato that is purple is the ___________________________________________,
37. Wood Prairie Farms grows ____________________ different varieties of organic potatoes.
38. The variety of pink potato is the ______________________________________.
39. Late blight is an ______________________________________ that attacks potatoes and destroys about
_______% of the world potato crop each year.
40. It takes about ______________________ pounds of potatoes to make 50 pounds of potato flakes.
41. Dehydrated potatoes are used in foods such as ______________________ and _________________.
42. The Keystone processing plant goes through about ________________ pounds of potatoes a day.
43. The potatoes are dried and taken from about ______% moisture when raw to about ______% moisture when
dried.
44. As early as ______________, South Americans were drying potatoes to keep them.
45. Project Concern transports about _______________________ pounds of dehydrated potatoes.
46. The first child’s toy advertised on television was _______________________________.
47. When this toy was first released, you had to use a _________________________________.
48. The Diktator is a version of the ever popular ______________________________________.
49. Agrihouse is experimenting with growing food _________________________________________.
50. In 1995, the first food crop grown in orbit was the ____________________________.
51. Aeroponics is growing plants in the air with ______________________________ instead of in soil. This uses
_______% less fertilizer and ______% less water.