April 30, 1952 April 30, 1952- Mr. Potato Head became the first toy advertised on television. This was the first commercial to be aimed directly at children; before this, commercials only targeted adults.

Potato Head hit shelves in 1952, customers were expected to provide their own potato. Instead of animating a hollow plastic body, they stuck hands, feet, ears, mouths, eyes, noses, and accessories into whatever spare fruit or vegetables they had at home. The kit consisted of nearly 30 features and cost just 98 cents.

The Mr. Potato Head concept was the brainchild of George Lerner, a Brooklyn-born inventor who spent his childhood making dolls for his sisters out of potatoes from the garden, fashioning rudimentary facial features out of fruits and vegetables.

(mildly pejorative) A foolish person.

Potato Head. A potato-shaped toy, his patented design allows him to separate his detachable parts from his body by removing them from the holes on his body.

Mr. Potato Head was invented by George Lerner of Brooklyn. Sometime just before the start of the 1950's he had the idea to create plastic face and body pieces that could be inserted into fruits and vegetables to make a “funny face man.” He shopped his idea around to toy companies but they were not impressed.

“Hasbro is making sure all feel welcome in the Potato Head world by officially dropping the Mr. from the Mr. Potato Head brand name and logo to promote gender equality and inclusion,” the company said in an initial statement on Thursday. On social media, some people took the statement to mean a change to the Mr.

One day Grandma and Jack make two people out of potatoes. When Jack moves away, Grandma misses him and the potato people wither. She buries them in the garden and a huge potato plant grows. When Jack returns to see it, it has died, but underneath it they discover hundreds of new potatoes.

Expert bartender, Phil Ward told Australian Bartender how this Mr. Potato Head approach works for cocktails, saying, "My theory is that every template of a good drink is a blueprint for other good drinks so you just take it apart and put it back together."

On April 30, 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy advertised on television. The campaign was also the first to be aimed directly at children; before this, commercials were only targeted at adults, including toy advertisements. The commercial revolutionized marketing, and caused an industrial boom.

Kids play with the food they don't want to eat. George Lerner, an inventor who figured that vegetables with a little personality might have a better chance, created a set of silly face parts as bonuses for cereal box promotions.

More scientifically inclined botanists identified these first-known edible tubers as members of the poisonous nightshade family, and potatoes came to be associated with witchcraft and devil worship. But European attitudes toward potatoes shifted during the 1700s as a result of two things: war and famine.