fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoA potato is for life, not just for Christmas | Emma Beddington
All I want for Christmas is the Nairn Museum potato flask. Showcased as part of the Highland museum's virtual Advent calendar on Instagram last week, it's a late-18th-century Staffordshire pottery flask to be filled with strong drink and used to toast a safe journey for a traveller shaped like a very realistic, knobbly spud, complete with green bits. The benefactor who donated the flask apparently explained it was so ugly that no one in his family wanted to inherit it.
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