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Welcome to another many cast of the Way With Words, I'm Grant Barrett.

The call I'm going to play for you now was part of our pledge show this year.

Ron called us from eastern Tennessee to ask what could possibly be meant by a sign at a cafe

that says, we cook off our potatoes. Is a good thing a bad thing what could it

possibly mean well I've got a question about something that's been bothering me

for some time now a few years ago I was passing through Minneapolis on a very foggy night and I had

to get off the interstate because the fog was so bad so I pulled into a truck stop. I went

in to get something to eat and on the menu it said we cook off our potatoes.

And I sat there looking at the menu, but I couldn't figure out what they were trying to tell what they were

trying to say you know were they saying that they pre-cooked their potatoes do they reheat their

potatoes are their potatoes so hot that they're able to cook off them like charcoal?

I mean nothing made any sense and I realize that a cookoff is a competition like a chili cookoff just like a bake. a

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