@ElleGray We did a lot at a younger age while in school.

Some of us called it the Great War of the Flying Potatoes à la béchamel.
Many were showing stigmas for the whole afternoon.

@ElleGray Get thee behind me, spuds

@ElleGray no no no, it's a message of support and encouragement! 😂

@ElleGray They could also be part of a spud buddy program and are there to support you while make your way through the produce section 🙃

@ElleGray And they have eyes!

@ElleGray

Sounds more like a threat to potatoes. I say: potatoes are the future!

@ElleGray got to respect the Murphia 🥔

@ElleGray

No! It's not true! I'm sure I have many potatoes still in my future!

@ElleGray 🥔🔪

@ElleGray don’t look back, they see they’re gaining on you

@ElleGray

@ElleGray My friend, uhh, took this as a challenge.

@ElleGray Thanks, Potatoes. I knew I could count on you.

@ElleGray You never heard of a spec-tater?

@ElleGray deserves another placard nearby that just reads "PLEASE WAKE UP"

@ElleGray Potato Panto. Obviously.

@ElleGray Quite frankly I welcome their support.

@ElleGray every sign tells a story. How often were the clerks asked to decide to put the sign up?

@ElleGray and yet customers will -still- ask where the potatoes are, despite staring at this sign for ten minutes.

@ElleGray 👀👀👀

@ElleGray All those eyes, tho!

@ElleGray Alternatively: Potato solidarity. Potatoes are good comrades.

@ElleGray

@ElleGray
It's hard to make a potato threatening, you say?
How quickly we forget the potato gun.
🥔

@ElleGray
This is encouraging. It's like, 'It's time to eat salad now! Your potato days are behind you!!' 😅

@ElleGray This man exists too.

"I have a thing for potato cannons!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocxYe_j6nOw

@ElleGray looks like your lettuce allies have got your back.

@ElleGray 😁😄😆😂🤣

@ElleGray @losttourist wherever you go, the potatoes are behind you, watching your every move.

@ElleGray mFs have eyes allover the place too...👀🥔

@ElleGray Chuckle.

@ElleGray Makes me think of that one Goosebumps book I read as a kid where the monster was essentially a carnivorous potato.

@ElleGray @pokateo Location, location, location..

@ElleGray I don't have to get behind potatoes... they're behind me!
How supportive!

@ElleGray
everyone: how can potatoes be a threat?

BIPoC in germany: hold my drink

@ElleGray smash em!

@ElleGray THE POTATOES HAVE EYES

@ElleGray call me old-fashioned, I do believe that it's a pantomime phrase.

@ElleGray :blobcatgiggle:

@ElleGray is just like the train voice near my place when it says "please be careful when crossing, a train could be hidding another train"

@ElleGray panto season already?

@ElleGray
It would be more of a threat if it read "Potatoes are after you"

@ElleGray

@ElleGray "He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DtNtw2HTFtA #Babylon5 #B5

@ElleGray No, no, you've got it all wrong! Potatoes see you and support you. They've always got your back.

When the chips are down, you can count on spuds.

@ElleGray
It's the rutabagas you gotta watch out for

@ElleGray

@ElleGray

Soooooo I wrote this years ago: https://benjaminhollon.com/writing/potato-paragraph/

@ElleGray @lisamelton “remember the potato famine? Well, we are back and we will ruin your day!”

@ElleGray Most German sign ever

No, those potatoes are in my future.

@ElleGray

@ElleGray I've been wary of them for years. Same with Tomatoes, ever since Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. My life is complicated.

@ElleGray oh no they aren’t!

@ElleGray this is the potato they are warning you about.

@ElleGray @Tattie

@ElleGray potatoes behind you

@ElleGray

Funny, I just got this photo sent to me to recognize an associate of the month on FB. Produce clerks are weird.

Respect the POTATO

@ElleGray I always felt it. These potatoes are after me. But I won't go down without a fight. I am gonna take as many with me as I can. 🤘

@ElleGray A friend of mine said that when she was little, she thought that "Get thee behind me, Satan!" meant that Satan's on your side: he's got your back.

@ElleGray 😱

@ElleGray
Oh, it's easy to be flip about it until it happens to you!

@ElleGray Not only are the potatoes behind you.
They have a chip on their shoulders

@ElleGray What?

*the potato opens and there is a platypus inside*

A Platypus Potato?

*the platypus wears a fedora*

Perry the Platypus!

@ElleGray
Could also be they are supporting you and have your back.

@ElleGray @futurebird oh thanks this entire thread is hilarious 😂

@ElleGray
I, for one, am happy to welcome our new starchy, thick-skinned, tuberous overlords.

@ElleGray Threat, or statement of support? With potatoes behind you, there's nothing that can stand in your way!

@ElleGray idk potatoes do seem quite chuckable

@ElleGray
Pantomime potatoes?

@ElleGray Due to the eyes of the potatoes 🥔

@ElleGray Oh no they aren't!

@ElleGray could be seen as supportive. At least the fruit and veg are in solidarity with your union recognition drive at [insert name of shitty supermarket here].

#SolidarityForever

@ElleGray paging @KiwiEV

@ElleGray
I wouldn’t need the sign, I’d feel their beady little eyes on me.

@ElleGray Here in Au, we have this politician, who many of us like to call “Minister Potato Head”.

@ElleGray first thought: Bring it

@ElleGray

And they are watching you.. with all those eyes.

@ElleGray
In case you're puzzled why several people mentioned Germany, here: "potato" is how some Germans get called sometimes, in return for constantly dwelling on a presumed "migratory background" of the family living next door. You can't call us potatoes while you're not living in Germany,, though - in that case, please use the traditional "Krauts".

@ElleGray my life is in this label.

@ElleGray And they have their eyes on you.

@ElleGray I’m afraid to turn around. Are they russets?!

@ElleGray ohhh... they're right behind me aren't they.... 😬

@ElleGray This is brilliant.

@ElleGray uhmm ... GULP. .. they're uhm, right behind me. aren't they.?

@ElleGray

Oh don't worry it's just a Panto.

@ElleGray
But the tomatoes are plotting behind your back?

@ElleGray
I just think of the frustration that led them to print this sign, the worker walking down the isle and being asked yet again where the potatoes are.
"Ma'am they're behind you, just turn around."
A hundred times a day. You want them with this, so we put them near it, just look around...

I peed a little…

@ElleGray "beware the potatoes!" 🤣🤣🤣

@ElleGray I prefer to believe that means Potatoes have my back. ;-)

All those eyes watching you…

@ElleGray
*activates British pantomime mode*

“Oh no, there isn’t!”
“Oh yes they are!”

@ElleGray depends on how hard you throw em @Elisa

@ElleGray @APBBlue I’m reading that totally differently. Potatoes’ve got your back!

@ElleGray Every vacation on Mallorca

@ElleGray hmm