I love how this thread goes on and on about how it is a prank, there’s that ridiculous medium post dissecting it point by point, but nobody ever gets around o giving proper credit to the artist. He’s still around, making similar stuff, but for whatever reason chooses f*c****k as his primary outlet.
If I had a Time Machine I would go back to the Irish potato famine and fill the machine with starving Irish and drop them off in the parking lot of Mickey Rooney’s Irish Potato Fantasy and buy them all potato dinners with a pocket full of quarters
We invent Time Travel, someone tries this, they appear in Hitler's bedroom at 3am with a gun, and Hitler just mutters, "Oh great - here we go again..."
Mickey’s Potato Fantasy wasn’t real… but THIS IS ABSOLUTELY REAL. There’s a REASON they were making fun of him with the potato thing.
Mickey Rooney’s Weene [sic] World was real, and it was a chain restaurant with FIFTY-TWO LOCATIONS.
I wonder what slick-tongued grifter got Rooney to invest in this? Still, $1.29 for three full pounds of variously cooked potatoes (no substitutes) is compelling.