There are a ‘variety’ of options, brother potato, as you know! Some are destined to be fried, others boiled, some chipped, and some mashed or beaten as you say, into oblivion. Then from all that carnage, there is always one that is missed and rises up to form another huge harvest, just as prophesy has demanded. In the interim, some potatoes are going to get dug up. Where, we know not. It may be over here, or over there, but before it gets out of hand, Jehovah will put a stop to all these potatoes, ….except that one lingering underground ready to come back.