For those of you that don’t know, I now own a catering company. Three events last night and two tonight, you think I would not be sitting here at 6am in the morning writing about Potatoes Wonderful…..Well, sometimes you just can’t sleep, might as well be productive.
As you might have noticed, I like my food to be innovative and different. So a regular customer came to me one day and said, “Sally, we love the flowerpot sandwiches, but we love our french fries with our sandwiches, why don’t you add french fries to the menu?” Welllll, that sounded so ordinary. I decided we did indeed need some potato, but was not going to give in to french fries. So I started fooling around in the kitchen with a mashed potato. First I put it on the grill and basically made a potato pancake. Sort of boring. Someone had given me one of those “super shooters” which was a small gun that held either icing or cookie dough and it was electric and you could make fancy cookies with it. So I stuck some mashed potatoes in it and squirted them into the fryer and they disintegrated. So I added some eggs and they held together, but they were boring. Then I added some garlic and still not right. Finally I added some parmesan cheese and put a tip on the gun (kind of like a pastry bag) that made the potatoes have ridges and shot them into the fryer and they came out crispy on the outside and soft mashed garlic cheese potatoes on the inside. Yummy! The one problem was the gun made a total of three potatoes. The first day I tried them we sold 229 potatoes. Holy smokes, I thought the cooks were going to kill me. Having to reload this little bitty cylinder every few min. was not fun or fast. So I started searching for someone who could make me a large version of the gun, the mac daddy of a real super shooter. I found a man in Greyson, Ga. (not far from me) who did indeed make machines for big companies. I went to see him and he showed me the machine he made for McDonald’s which made chicken nuggets. You will never eat a McDonald’s chicken nugget again after you see what they are made of. To be fair, I think they now use real chicken, thank goodness. Sure enough, he was able to make it and that was the beginning of Potatoes Wonderful. Have a great Day.
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