For Ohio's 'PotatoStock,' all you need is
love, and mayonnaise
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[September 26, 2014]
By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio man's modest
request this summer for a little help making potato salad culminates
this Saturday in PotatoStock 2014 - a charity event to help end hunger
and homelessness.
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As a joke among his friends, Zack Danger Brown went on the
Internet funding site Kickstarter in July to raise $10 for his first
attempt to make the side dish.
But fans of potato salad - and Internet jokes - can be very serious.
Before the funding period ended in early August, Brown’s proposal
had garnered international media attention and accumulated more than
$55,000 from 6,911 donors.
Kickstarter participants are permitted to make a personal profit
after all fundraising promises are fulfilled. Brown decided to
donate his profits to the Columbus Foundation, to distribute to
non-profit organizations.
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2014/Sep/26/images/ads/current/ldn_sda_062409.png) The Columbus event will have five bands, concessions and 300 pounds
of potato salad. PotatoStock is free and open to the public, or as
Brown’s invite on Facebook reads: “the whole Internet.”
“I invited the whole Internet. So if a percentage of the billion or
so show up, we should get a few million, which might be a problem
because we only have one bar,” Brown said.
Attendees can also purchase T-shirts with the event’s theme of
“Peace, Love and Potato Salad!” Brown said.
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The "PotatoStock" name is a takeoff on the famous 1969 Woodstock
music festival, although Brown considered other potato-related
names.
"A friend said later we should have called it the Oct-tuber Fest,"
said Brown. "Maybe next year."
(Reporting by Kim Palmer; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Peter
Cooney)
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