There's a new song sweeping social media — and it's all about a barrel of modestly priced spuds.
On March 18, Seattle, Washington, resident Eliott Goit posted a little ditty he wrote about the purchase of one jumbo-sized drum of seed potatoes.
The budding tuber-laureate found the item for sale on Facebook Marketplace nearby for $25. That makes the potatoes half-priced, according to recent data.
Goit starts the short video singing, rhythmically taking us through a tot-sized story of how he found himself the proud owner of so many potatoes.
Here are the lyrics:
I just bought 55 gallons of potatoes
I really didn’t have a choice
I don’t know what I’m gonna do
But I bet you would have too
They were a steal on Facebook Marketplace.
In the clip, Goit shows his potato haul tumbling out of a blue barrel on the back of a pickup truck. Later, Goit is seen deep in potato-based plans with graphs and napkin math.
Viewers were entertained, and comments piled up like cheese and bacon on a loaded baked potato.
“Someone nominate this guy for song of the year,” one commenter said.
“Barrels alone worth more than 25,” another added, and yet another wrote, “Think of it as *free* potatoes in a $25 oil drum 😮.”
“My math teacher still talks about you.😂,” said one more added, “55 Gallons of Potatoes, 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies, 55 cokes, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 tenders, 100 meatballs, 100 coffees, 55 wings, 55 shakes, 55 pancakes, 55 pastas, 55 peppers, and 155 taters!!!”
What’s He Going To Do With All Those Potatoes?
It likely involves making lots of fries and loaded baked potatoes in the future, but for now, Goit is now the proud owner of a front yard potato farm.
“I need to have 700 feet of space to plant all these potatoes,” Goit tells TODAY.com over Zoom in his freshly tilled front yard. After figuring out the field’s dimensions, he would have enough space to pack them in.
“I call it my napkin math, and it’s where I work out things, like, ‘Okay, let’s figure out how many potatoes I have. Well, 55 gallons. How many potatoes per gallon? This is how many potatoes I have total if I wanted to plant them,’” Goit says. “These are the things I was writing in a diagram. It’s like, okay, the internet tells me 12 inches apart is correct spacing for planting potatoes.”
He says that after buying the potatoes, he had a long drive and plenty of time to think so he composed a song, which he says sounds similar to “99 Bottles of Beer."
“I had to drive 45 minutes, so the whole way back, I was just kind of thinking about the ridiculousness of what I just did,” Goit says. “And it’s a 55-gallon drum, and that was pretty much the only indicator I had in my brain of, like, how much potato I just got.”
Goit posted a “Potato farm update” on March 27, explaining what he plans to do with his tubers: sell them. “
He estimated in a video that he currently has 712 potatoes, but if each grows into a successful potato plant, he can quadruple his yield.
“In the end, it’s just too many potatoes for one person,” Goit says, mentioning a friend who is set to teach him how to make potato soup. ”I’ll probably give a lot to friends and family,”
“A lot of people want me to make vodka,” Goit says, pausing.
“But that’s illegal, so I won’t be doing that.”
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
