When Disney's Toy Story came out, I knew I had to own one toy from the movie, and it wasn't Woody the Cowboy or Buzz the Spaceman. I wanted a MR. POTATO HEAD. To me he was the most adorable toy in the movie.

Just before my college graduation two years ago, I drove out to a K-Mart and bought myself a Mr. Potato Head for around USD$7. For his long and lonely nights, I bought a Mrs. Potato Head as well but I then gave her away to my roomate Linda as we were parting our separate ways from university. So now my Mr. Potato Head is single. (He prefers non-smokers and likes long walks on the beach. Call 555-CHIPS).

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Mr. Potato Head is an old classic American toy that has been around since 1952. The original Mr. Potato Head only consisted of face parts; you had to provide your own potato for his body! Kids had a lot of fun back in those days playing with their food by sticking the various parts into potatoes. Turnips and onions also fell victim to the children's playtime.

Back then parents must have gone starking mad because their houses would smell like rotten veggies everytime their kids leave their Mr. Potato Head s forgotten for weeks under the couch. The year 1964 saw the end of food wastage when Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head were given plastic bodies which have evolved into many different shapes over the decades.

Mr. Potato Head today has a "trap door" in his butt. It's a great place to store his extra body parts, car keys, sweets, and anything else that'll fit in there.

Today, I got super curious to see what Mr. Potato Head would like if I took a real potato and used it as his body.

First, I tried looking for the biggest potato possible. This by far was no easy task, as you know, everything in Malaysia is like super small. Couldn't find giant size American "taters", so I had to settle for one of these wimps.

It was going to be difficult to penetrate through the raw potato with the blunt points of his facial parts, so I had to use an ice pick to make the holes.

If you decide to do this, take extra care by making sure the ice pick will not penetrate through your hand instead! Aim carefully and do this slowly.

This certainly looks cruel and unusual doesn't it! I gotta tell you, impaling a raw potato can be messy when its juices start to run.

Voila! With the holes all made and the parts put into place: the "original" Mr. Potato! It certainly looks like he just went on a crash diet doesn't he. Or worse, a junkie!

Phew... all this work of impaling is making me work up a fierce appetite! Hmmm, let's have some potato chips in celebration of the "reincarnated" Mr. Potato Head .

Eh, Mr. Potato Head , where are you going?? Won't you stay to have some BBQ chips...!?

Mr. Potato Head : Arggghhhh... potato murderer!