#potato bracket

Ok, here's how we're going to do this

I have 49 potato formats. Some are similar, but I believe they are all different, if sometime only by one ingredient

As such, I will do 7 polls of 7 options each. This gives every option an equal shot at votes. The 32 options with the most votes will be seeded into a bracket

That being said

This is a bracket where different ways to prepare a potato face off!

Rules for submissions:

- Submit your nominee in my askbox. Let me know the name of the dish. Photo/drawing optional. No AI images

- You may submit as many different dishes as you like. Please make each one a separate ask

- Must be a dish or beverage comprised primarily of potatoes

- Must be edible or drinkable

- Can be any form of potato preparation. Frying, baking, mashing, smashing, smooshing, grating, boiling, fermenting, distilling, air frying, electrocuting… all acceptable

- Can be from any country or culture, regardless of if you think most people would recognize it. Feel free to describe the dish in your ask, but this is optional as I can look it up

- You may explain in your submission why you think this form of potato should be in the pageant but this is optional

- Submissions close one week from today, at 11:59pm EST on Saturday, January 17th.

Some ideas to get your potato juices flowing:

Ok, those who made it through the qualifiers have been seeded, so it's time for the 32 top contenders to go head to head! Commiserations to those whose nominations didn't make it through the group stages (especially farls, my best beloved), which are below the cut