Trivia: Mr. Potato Head was a Pipe Smoker!

Posted by Alex in Daily Trivia, Toy & Video Games on March 12, 2008 at 1:01 am


Before anti-smoking groups had their way, Mr. Potato Head’s favorite accessory was a smoking pipe.

The pipe was discontinued by Hasbro in 1987. (Image: wm.edu)

The original Mr. Potato Head was an actual potato. In the early 1950s, as a young boy in a poor farming family, George Lerner took potatoes from his mother’s garden and used grapes as eyes and a carrot as a nose to make a doll for his younger sister.


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5 comments to "Trivia: Mr. Potato Head was a Pipe Smoker!"

  1. eh
    March 12th, 2008 at 1:48 am

    i always felt like something was missing from new Mr Potatoheads. it's the pipe!!!

  2. eh
    March 12th, 2008 at 1:49 am

    oh and even though i played with a mr potatohead WITH A PIPE i never became a smoker. go figure!

  3. Tony LaRocca
    March 12th, 2008 at 4:41 am

    Even Dr. Who smoked, in the first episode. For real smoking fun, search youtube for the old Flintstone's Winston ads.

  4. l'elk!
    March 12th, 2008 at 8:49 am

    there were chew marks on the end of my mr. potato heads green plastic pipe.

  5. Allen Garvin
    March 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Speaking of real potatoes and Mr Potato Head, there are few things more terrifying than putting Mr Potato Head features on an actual potato, and then leaving it in a dark cupboard for several weeks.


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