Potato

Potatoes were an Earth-based vegetable, often used to make foods such as chips and crisps.
The Doctor was once imprisoned in the Tower of London with Sir Walter Raleigh, who kept going on about the potato, which he'd discovered. (TV: )
Peri Brown once found herself in a dimension modelled upon a combination of the Alice in Wonderland book she had been reading and the salad she had been eating. Among the creatures she met in this world were the King and Knave of Spuds, a pair of talking potatoes who nearly executed Peri for the heinous crime of eating vegetables. (COMIC: )
The Seventh Doctor cooked a breakfast of fried eggs, bacon, sausages and fried potato slices for Justine and Vincent Wheaton at Smithwood Manor. (PROSE: )
The Sontarans were said to look like potatoes, specifically baked potatoes, on several occasions. (TV: , , , )
Learning that a Slitheen feared Clyde Langer's cold chip sandwich, Maria Jackson briefly suggested the Slitheen were allergic to potato before Sarah Jane Smith recalled seeing a Slitheen eating a sandwich. (TV: )
In 2009, potatoes were one of many fruits and vegetables sold in Mr. Cousins' greengrocers. (PROSE: )
After Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams hid in a truck filled with potatoes to escape to London, Gwen said, "Rhys, you are not eating uncooked potatoes", after Rhys had asked her for a knife. (TV: )
in 2018, Ramón Salamander's chef Griffin, after being unimpressed with Victoria Waterfield's recipe for Kaiser pudding, assigned Victoria to peel potatoes. (TV: )
In 2075, the First Doctor, John and Gillian used potatoes as makeshift weapons to defeat the space pirates on Anastas Thrax's space station. (COMIC: ) Later, in 1800, the Tenth Doctor similarly used potatoes in combat. Onboard an American schooner in the Caribbean Sea during the dying days of the Quasi-War, he used potatoes, turnips and molasses to create an organic mixture capable of clogging proton cannons. (COMIC: )
Potatoes were among the plants kept in the plant museum near Brittanicus Base. (TV: )
The Alovians believed all problems could be solved with potatoes. (PROSE: )
Category:Vegetables from the real world
Category:Edible plants from the real world