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Ohio man's online potato salad effort takes off
Times Leader ^ | 7-8-2014

Posted on 07/08/2014 6:11:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

An Ohio man who turned to a crowd-sourcing Internet site to help him pay for a batch of potato salad has raised at least $35,000 from the effort and says he's now considering a huge public potato-salad party.

Zack "Danger" Brown of Columbus says he turned to Kickstarter to help him finance the initial $10 effort. But six days into the campaign, he's raised money from at least 3,000 backers worldwide, and the whole thing has taken on a viral life of its own on the Internet.

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1 posted on 07/08/2014 6:11:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

I have a chicken soup recipe that I need $10 to help develop.
I better check out Kickstarter and see if I can get 3,000 people to help finance my soup.

Think what can be done with $35,000


2 posted on 07/08/2014 6:27:48 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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What kind of potatoes? Yukon Gold apparently!


3 posted on 07/08/2014 6:34:04 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: Citizen Zed
They call him "Tater Salad."

Ron White, please pick up the, well, white, courtesy phone....

4 posted on 07/08/2014 6:44:25 AM PDT by MissNomer
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To: Citizen Zed

How soon before the gov’t nips this little entrepreneurial venture in the bud?


5 posted on 07/08/2014 6:45:40 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

I had nothing to do with this.


6 posted on 07/08/2014 9:47:08 AM PDT by ohioman
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