What's awesome? Potatoes! The Potato Expo was totally worth the drive - saw the world's largest potato chip (which is technically a "crisp" but it sure looks like a chip to me) and other cool potato-ey stuff, and I got my free hash browns and ate them in about nine seconds.... so delicious.

After Potatoing and Expoing I got a call from one of the strategists at the Viva Bread party - "potatoes and bread are a natural alliance," he said. "If you can get them on Otis's side we might be able to swing Idaho." I left some flyers at the gift shop - I thought I saw a guy take one, but I think he actually just spilled his hashbrowns on them.

The campaign did get a local news story done about them, which is really excellent. I don't know where Channel 3 news is, but if people are putting up billboards and signs and they aren't getting covered by flying hashbrowns then things are looking up!

I'm back in Utah so I can check out the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area tomorrow, which was suggested by a commenter on the blog. Suggestions are totally welcome - if these places to visit have anything to do with food, so much the better.

(Photo by Ed Yourdon)