I had to Google these. Wikipedia says it all:

"The candy bar consists of a cocoa-flavored marshmallow center which is covered with compound (a chocolate replacement made from cocoa, sugar, and vegetable fats) and sprinkled with coconut flakes. The oblong shape of the candy bar resembles a potato."

I won't eat any candy bar made of mockolate. It has to be the real thing or nothing for me.

Oh, and Amazon sells them under 'Gourmet Food', which proves, obviously, that loquacious has an uneducated palate and is an unsophisticated pleb.

For about 20 years, my two older brothers have been passing a Spud bar back and forth as a joke birthday/wedding/Christmas present, slipping into each other's suitcase, sock drawer, etc. when they visit each other. It's the white elephant that never dies.

Is it the same Spud bar, PK?

See's used to make something similar for St. Patrick's day, but it looks like they discontinued it.

Please ask them if they still have it, PlanetKyoto, because I think I ate it.


essexjan: I hear you about mockolate, but at least this mockolate had cocoa in it. I didn't buy it for the chocolate, anyway, I bought it for the novelty. Besides, this being the United States of Stupid, I can't just go in to any little beer-soaked mini-market and expect to find real chocolate. Seriously, the Herhey's "Special" Dark was the best I could do.

See, there's a story behind all this. The last time I saw one of these "Idaho Spuds" I was in Utah, on an excruciating youth assembly trip. (Please don't ask. Terrible.) I was young, nerdly and very, very naive and gullible and generally totally socially out of whack and tuned in to all the wrong wavelengths required to be at least marginally socially non-awkward.

On one excursion I'd spotted this "Idaho Spud" and proclaimed my disbelief about such a preposterous notion - what I assumed was a potato based candy bar. I wished to purchase it. Someone dissuaded me.

For something like two decades I've wondered about that damn candy bar. The older I got and the more new things I tried and ended up liking the more I doubted whomever it was who discouraged me. The more I learned that there's no accounting for taste and the more I learned that people were generally kind of stupid, fearful and/or needlessly opinionated, the more I wondered and doubted.

Fuck. The guy was right. Idaho Spuds are freakishly gross. They're nastier than a pink Hostess Sno-ball.

And so, I wonder no more.

I still don't like brussel sprouts, neither, but you can have mine if you give me your asparagus or brocolli.

Maybe you've never had them properly roasted in butter, the sprouts.

But with candy and much of the US commonly available crapitude, it's all about expectation.
Being starving or, say, unreasonably baked, make, say, a box of those disgusting chocolate covered cherries someone gave someone for the holidays beyond edible.
Unfortunately, i could probably pass everything but the really expensive piss tests at this point.

I actually like those disgusting chocolate covered cherries. Believe me, I'm no sugar snob. It was banned by my hippy mom in my house as I was growing up. Needless to say my siblings and I grew up to be total crackheads for sugar. I used to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night to go buy a box of (usually brown) sugar and eat it. With a spoon. I even developed a brief but very intense and successful shoplifting habit all centered around obtaining mass quantities of candy.

Heck, I'm still a candywhore. Ever see one of those giant "Pound Plus" chocolate bars from Trader Joe's? I can grind through one of those in one go. In dark! (68%-71% cocoa solids, I believe. OMG the chocolate high... soooo muuuuuch PMA... world melting, room spinning oh jesus I think i just fell in love with my pillow and everything is fuzzy oh more chocolate yes please.)

That Idaho Spud thing, though? That was just seriously gross. It would be more effective if they just put some kind of real chocolate smell in a bag and sold that instead.

*passes freshness clockwise to ethylene*