Editing Potato (section)

=== In popular culture ===

Invented in 1949, and marketed and sold commercially by [[Hasbro]] in 1952, [[Mr. Potato Head]] is an American toy that consists of a plastic potato and attachable plastic parts, such as ears and eyes, to make a face. It was the first toy ever advertised on television.<ref name="VAC">{{cite web |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1120879/mr-potato-head-construction-toy-lerner-george/ |title=Mr Potato Head |website=Museum of Childhood |publisher=V&A Museum of Childhood |access-date=4 June 2024}}</ref><ref name="historyofhasbro">{{cite web |url=http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=ci_history_mph |title=About Mr. Potato Head |access-date=August 28, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925085901/http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=ci_history_mph |archive-date=September 25, 2008}}</ref><ref name=WTToys>{{cite book |last=Walsh |first=Tim |title=Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Made Them |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |year=2005 |isbn=0-7407-5571-4}}</ref>

In the 2015 science fiction film [[The_Martian_(film)#Scientific_accuracy|''The Martian'']], the protagonist, a stranded astronaut and botanist named Mark Watney, cultivates potatoes on Mars using [[Martian regolith|Martian soil]] fertilized with frozen feces.<ref>{{cite web |title=Could we grow potatoes on Mars? |publisher=Knowledge Centre, University of Warwick |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/knowledgecentre/science/physics-astrophysics/growing_potatoes_on_mars/|access-date=4 June 2024 |date=18 August 2020}}</ref>