World love for potatoes

Food festivals have been held all over the world for a long time. We regularly prepare national dishes, enjoy the festive table and sincerely rejoice at a successful harvest, living in a metropolis.

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1. Remember the lovely Ray-Ban commercial about a girl growing a tomato for Spanish Tomatina? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZ9AcR0KdM

But still, the most popular vegetable, which is dedicated to the largest number of such holidays, is potatoes. We have collected photos from potato festivals around the world.

2. The famous "Potato Days" in Burnsville, Minnesota. One of America's richest potato regions has been noisily celebrating potato days since the 1930s. Mashed potato wrestling is not for the faint of heart. This is a kind of fights without rules in mashed potatoes.

3. The more peaceful ones prepare all kinds of potato dishes and compete in peeling them. And children eat mashed potatoes at speed and even sculpt potato sculptures!

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5. Germany is famous not only for beer festivals, but also for potato Kartoffelfest. Potato pancakes, potatoes with bacon, jacket potatoes... Everything that can be made from "second bread" can be found here.

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7. And the younger generation is traditionally engaged in creativity.

8. Everyone's favorite french fries are handed out in huge quantities at the Fritkot festival in Brussels.

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10. One cannot help but love Ukraine for its hospitality and divinely delicious food. Here, the holiday of potato pancakes is celebrated on a grand scale in the city of Korosten.

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12. The most famous potato festival in Europe is the Italian Potato Festival in Lombardy, which has been held for 60 years. Potato picking competitions, wrestling in mashed potatoes, an exhibition of potatoes of the original form and folk festivals are a must here.

13. The restaurant chain Burger King decided to pick up a wonderful tradition in Russia. Here, on January 19 and 20, free potato days will be held - each guest will receive a free portion of village potatoes.