The World’s Biggest Potato on Wheels.
The Titanic Tater is on track for its return appearance March 17, in the First Ever 19th Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade® in Hot Springs.
The bodacious baker, billed as The World’s Biggest Potato on Wheels, and its accompanying truck and trailer — at a combined 72 feet long — were a huge hit in their inaugural appearance in the 2019 Hot Springs parade.
In 2019, the tater traveled 35,350 miles promoting Idaho® potatoes. It donated $12,500 to 25 local nonprofits, including one in Hot Springs, through its charitable program, A Big Helping.
The four-ton Big Idaho® Potato is the equivalent of 21,562 Idaho® potatoes, according to its sponsors. A real titanic tuber of that size would take 7,000 years to grow, they say. It would take two years in a hot oven to bake the brobdingnagian baker and would make 20,217 servings of mashed potatoes or 970,380 french fries.
The parade is immensely popular, with its insanely zany collection of marchers, strutters, dancers, waddlers, and floats that cover the 98-foot length of Bridge Street in the heart of downtown Hot Springs.
After two postponements in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade® will return in full form March 17 with comedian Cheech Marin as the celebrity grand marshal and “Machete” Trejo as the official starter.
For more information, call Steve Arrison at 501-321-2027.
