The word “potato” is sometimes combined with “tattoo” to form the portmanteau “potattoo.” “What vegetable do you mark your skin with? Potattoos #weakjoke” was posted on Twitter on August 20, 2010. “If the wiggles all got tattoos of hot potatoes would they be hot potattoos” was posted on Twitter on November 26, 2013.
A riddle was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on November 12, 2017:
Q: What do spuds use to modify their body?
A: Potattoos.
Twitter
James Kinsley
@mrjameskinsley
What vegetable do you mark your skin with? Potattoos #weakjoke
1:03 PM - 20 Aug 2010
Twitter
ran
@paralinee
What do you think of tattoos? — i love poTATTOOS <3 http://ask.fm/a/1fp3i6qp
10:02 AM - 7 Dec 2012
Twitter
homeboy mcjewerson
@bettyswaghetti
if the wiggles all got tattoos of hot potatoes would they be hot potattoos
2:41 PM - 26 Nov 2013
Twitter
Jade
@JadeInHerPlace
Tattoo of a potato= Potattoos
10:46 AM - 29 Dec 2013
Twitter
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@karlie_kIoss
if potatoes got tattoos… would they be potattoos…
6:04 AM - 9 Apr 2014
Twitter
justateen
@_WhenOopsMetHi
A few days ago I was outside with my dad and we bought potatoes and he said potatoes like “potattoos”.
4:48 PM - 29 Jul 2015
Twitter
Connor
@EdgarAllanLo
You say tattoos of potatoes, I say potattoos.
1:10 AM - 28 Feb 2016
Reddit—3amjokes
What do spuds use to modify their body? self.3amjokes
Submitted November 12, 2017 by I_love_420
Potattoos
Twitter
LOL Tweets™
@lolmgco
What do spuds use to modify their body?
Potattoos
1:22 PM - 12 Nov 2017
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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