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A potato is a consumable both appearing and mentioned across the wastelands.
Characteristics[]
First grown in South America, potatoes are the product of a plant also found proliferating after the Great War.[1][2]
Background[]
Potatoes are a post-War food source mentioned by Delbert Winters as growing in Appalachia. He mentions observations he has made of a hybrid variety that had pollinated with tomatoes, subsequently tasting like "ketchup-flavored cardboard."[1]
In the Commonwealth, potatoes are described as extinct by the Brotherhood of Steel, who has been engaging in research on local flora.[3] A Prydwen terminal includes information on two species of plants, a potato and a tomato, that have hybridized into a new species called a tato.[3] Despite this, Abigail Finch once threatened her husband Abraham Finch and her son Jake that if they don't stop their infighting, they would be peeling potatoes for a year, making the information that potatoes are extinct within the Commonwealth dubious or conflicted.[4]
Meanwhile, fresh potatoes are still grown in the Capital and Mojave Wastelands, and the tato hybrid is not known to have spread to these regions.
Variants[]
Fresh potato[]
Grown in both the Capital and Mojave Wastelands, it is available for purchase from a variety of traders throughout both regions.
Irradiated potato[]
An irradiated variant of a fresh potato, found in the Mojave.
Notes[]
- Daniel Bird wrote a memo to himself, describing potato as a "difficult word" and outlined plans to change the spelling to "potatoe." Bird also mentions the sentiment in dialogue, asking the Chosen One how they spell it and attempting to spell it both ways out loud.[5][6][7]
- Potato Crisps are a consumable found throughout the wastes.
- The tombstone of an individual named Jay "Potato Feet" Nielson can be seen in Fallout 2, randomly generated in the Den, Golgotha or Redding.[8]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Volunteer training program: Food
- ↑ Pioneer Scout camp terminal entries; Pioneer badge exam terminal; Gardener
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Prydwen terminal entries; Botany terminal, Tato
- ↑ Abigail Finch: "Shut up Jake. If I hear anything out of either of you, you'll both be peeling potatoes for the next year."
(Abigail Finch's dialogue) - ↑ Daniel Bird: "{114}{}{Hmm, tell me, how do you spell potato? With an 'E,' or without?}"
(Daniel Bird's dialogue) - ↑ Daniel Bird: "{182}{}{P-O-T-A-T-O-E}"
(Daniel Bird's dialogue) - ↑ Daniel Bird: "{183}{}{P-O-T-A-T-O}"
(Daniel Bird's dialogue) - ↑ Gravesite message file