SILVER SPRING, MD—Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called an emergency press conference Monday to urge all Americans to check out a really weird-looking potato.
The half-pound russet potato— discovered last night in a Maryland supermarket by an FDA agent who was grocery shopping—is being described as "two potatoes that sort of got fused together somehow, but with some other really weird parts growing off of it.
FDA officials later announced they had already launched a special informational website featuring hundreds of images of the potato from every possible angle and extensive notes on its most unusual-appearing features.
Additionally, sources within the FDA have said that some of the potato's eyes have started to sprout, making the vegetable look infinitely weirder."The next step will be to get the potato into some sort of climate-controlled environment," said Hamburg, addressing interdepartmental concerns that the freakish potato would shrivel up before everyone got a chance to see it in person. "We're not going to make the same mistake we did with that tomato that looked like a butt.
Hamburg added that the weird-looking potato will temporarily be housed alongside the three-chambered peanut shell Hamburg herself discovered while eating lunch last October, and the rock that looks exactly like a regular potato, which was sent to the agency anonymously in 2009.
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