You know that all potatoes have eyes.  Well, Mr. and Mrs. Potato had
eyes for each other and they finally got married and had a little
one---a real SWEET POTATO whom they called "YAM."
They wanted the best for little YAM, telling her all about the facts of
life. They warned her about going out and getting Half Baked because she
could get Mashed, get a bad name like Hot Potato, and then end up with a
bunch of Tater Tots.  She said not to worry------no, Mr. McSpud would not
get her in the sack and make a Rotten Potato out of her! But she wouldn't
stay home and become a Couch Potato either.
She would get plenty of food and exercise so as not to be skinny like
her Shoestring cousins. Mr. and Mrs. Potato even told her about going
off to those Hard Boiled guys from Ireland and even the greasy guys from
France called the French Fries.  They also said she should watch out for
the Indians when going out west because she could get Scalloped. She told
them she would stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn't associate with
those high class Blue Belles or the ones from the other side of the tracks
who advertise their trade on all the trucks you see around town that say
Frito Lay.
Mr. & Mrs. Potato wanted the best for Yam, so they sent her to "Idaho
P.U."  --that's Potato University -- where the Big Potatoes come from
and when she graduated, she'd really be in the Chips. But one day she
came home and said she was going to marry Walter Cronkite.  Mr. and Mrs.
Potato were very upset and said she couldn't marry him because he's just
a, just a...






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