"It's Just A Potato Darling!"
The Scott Mills Weekly
BBC
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
You've all heard the clip many times on the show but here's the origin. Back in 2015 Chris called up a restaurant and pretended he didn't know what a potato was.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.0 | The Scott Mills Daily. |
| 0:36.0 | We're not on this week, we're back next week, but here's some good bits from yesterday |
| 0:39.0 | year. |
| 0:40.0 | Huh. |
| 0:41.0 | Right Mills I saw this thing on the internet and I think you'll like it. |
| 0:47.0 | What is this thing on the internet? |
| 0:49.0 | So it's a story about a guy and he wrote it and then it ended up doing the rounds on the internet. |
| 0:54.6 | It was on Reddit. There's no original source with this right so it makes me think it |
| 0:58.5 | might have been made up, but it's a funny story all the same. Okay go on. |
| 1:01.3 | But basically this guy was meeting his girlfriend's |
| 1:03.4 | parents for the first time and really wanted to make a good impression. So we |
| 1:07.5 | had this idea that he should try and be funny to look good. Right? Everyone's |
| 1:11.8 | been there. Yeah. But you know where you kind of think you should |
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