01/08 Potatoes
Newstalk 970 WBLF. I’m Wes Richards with some thoughts on a solution at last.
You know what’s wrong with this state? You know why we can’t hold our heads up high among our fellow Americans? Do you know what makes us the laughing stock among other big agricultural states? What makes Patriotic Pennsylvanians ashamed?
You can’t buy an eight pound bag of potatoes in Pennsylvania.
What?
That’s right. You can’t buy an eight pound bag of potatoes like you can almost anywhere else in the civilized universe.
You can buy loose potatoes. You can buy them in three pound bags. Or fives, tens, 15s, 20s, 25s, 50s and hundreds. But not in eights.
But don’t give up hope. Our esteemed governor has signed what will probably be the single most important bill of his tenure, the potato packaging reform bill.
Yes, starting February 16th we at last catch up with the rest of the free world -- places like Arkansas and New Hampshire -- and can buy potatoes in bags of eight pounds.
Farmers like the size. They’ve lobbied for the size. There’s no real reason to have the size. But in a matter of a few weeks… our wildest potato dream will come true.
No longer will we have to skulk the back alleys alert to sellers of illegally packaged potatoes, ever alert that some cop will come bicycling around a corner, spot us and arrest the seller with possession and intent to distribute.
No longer will the highway patrol have to scan every vehicle larger than a smart car for potato pushers with loads of eight pound bags come pouring in from Idaho or Long Island.
No longer will our children and grandchildren be the object of scorn and ridicule when they visit friends and relatives in New Jersey or Delaware.
Oh, and this bill sailed through the legislature with bipartisan support and faster than a speeding tuber.
So congrats, boys and girls. You CAN work together. And the governor? Well, if potatoes could vote, he’d be a shoo-in for the second term no one seems to think he can make... because only people can vote. Well, most people.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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