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Overgrown Forgotten Pantry Potato Monster Meme

This is a humorous captioned meme featuring a vintage black and white fantasy line art illustration. The top caption reads 'WHEN YOU FIND A YEAR OLD POTATO IN THE FARTHEST CORNER OF YOUR PANTRY'. The illustration depicts a monstrous, humanoid sprouted potato creature with wide eyes, an open screaming mouth, and root/sprout tendrils coming out of its head and body, yelling the line 'WHERE IS THE SOIL'. An elderly bearded man standing in a doorway, representing the person who found the forgotten potato, looks shocked and exclaims 'HOLY SHIT'. The joke is a relatable, absurd take on how aggressively forgotten potatoes can sprout when left unattended in food storage for long periods.
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WHERE IS THE SOIL
HOLY SHIT

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WHEN YOU FIND A YEAR OLD POTATO IN THE FARTHEST CORNER OF YOUR PANTRY

Overview

This is a humorous captioned meme featuring a vintage black and white fantasy line art illustration. The top caption reads 'WHEN YOU FIND A YEAR OLD POTATO IN THE FARTHEST CORNER OF YOUR PANTRY'. The illustration depicts a monstrous, humanoid sprouted potato creature with wide eyes, an open screaming mouth, and root/sprout tendrils coming out of its head and body, yelling the line 'WHERE IS THE SOIL'. An elderly bearded man standing in a doorway, representing the person who found the forgotten potato, looks shocked and exclaims 'HOLY SHIT'. The joke is a relatable, absurd take on how aggressively forgotten potatoes can sprout when left unattended in food storage for long periods.

Origin notes

Per the provided source information, this meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme subreddit, where it was posted with the original title 'Enterestik', likely a misspelling of 'Interesting'. It is a remix of an existing public domain vintage horror/fantasy illustration, with added text overlays to create the relatable household humor joke.

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