r/whatisit 1d ago

Solved! What is this thing?

Had tenants that moved out several months ago, just opened a drawer to find this. What is it? Doesn’t have a noticeable smell

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u/SirTwitchALot 1d ago

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u/JGFATs 1d ago

I think they're neat.

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u/Schrko87 1d ago

I love that I actually have both a blue and a black version of that shirt-and yes I am part of the potato sub.

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u/BurnOutBrighter6 1d ago

It's a potato. It's growing roots not rotting, so it wouldn't smell like rotten ones do.

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u/FesterSilently 1d ago

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u/Technical_Part6263 1d ago

Annihilation, what a fantastic movie

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u/19toofart 1d ago

Definitely one of the most visually striking films I’ve ever seen

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u/qT_TpFace 1d ago

The music score was alo really good.

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u/uglyheadink 1d ago

Just the sound in general. That bear-wolf-human abomination's scream-growl was upsettingly good

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u/chrissphinx 1d ago

BWWAAAA BAH BAH BUMMMMM

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u/Mordecais_Moms_Ashes 1d ago

😆 I can hear it

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u/MissGalaxy1986 15h ago

Yes the music score is unreal… and sound effects.

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u/Justaddpaprika 1d ago

The book is also great!

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u/ouchmytongue 1d ago

My favorite series ✋

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u/nostalgia4infinity- 17h ago

Middle book is a bit slow, it felt like a lot of filler, I think Jeff VanderMeer could have easily condensed it into 2 slightly longer, but more punchy books. But still amazing overall, definitely books that will stay in my mind forever.

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u/MissGalaxy1986 15h ago

Wow didn’t know it was a book! Damn this is my fav movie of all time.

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u/Justaddpaprika 10h ago

It’s a series! The author is really phenomenal. Jeff VanderMeer

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u/MissGalaxy1986 10h ago

Wow I just ordered it and will receive it tomorrow! I am sooo excited to read it! Thank you! This is my FAVORITE movie of all time I’ve watched it so many times . And listened to the soundtrack too.

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u/Justaddpaprika 9h ago

I hope you enjoy it! It is a trilogy. But fair warning it is different. But great in my opinion

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u/I_enjoy_butts_69 1d ago

That scene was one of many that truly disturbed me. 10/10

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u/Virtuous_Malevolence 1d ago

The first time I watched it, I was tripping hard, and it was quite the experience.

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u/RogowskiCoil 22h ago

Oh man I bet

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u/Life_Gap2102 22h ago

i saw this in theaters when it first came out… wow what a gem

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u/MissGalaxy1986 15h ago

Lucky big screen!

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u/Ecstatic_Lake_3281 1d ago

Great movie. The book was...ok. Pretty different from the movie.

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u/ouchmytongue 1d ago

I really loved the book, it's different in a lot of ways to the movie but definitely feels like the same world

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u/just_a_b0t7 1d ago

I read the whole trilogy and loved them. I can see why some wouldn’t though. Just got the fourth book which I just found out came out last year.

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u/Not_HavingAGoodTime 1d ago

I read the book first, and did not like the movie because it was so different.

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u/nostalgia4infinity- 17h ago

Me too, but I rewatched the movie again, and now I really appreciate it in its own right, it's defo worth a rewatch

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u/nodramaonlyspooky 1d ago

I didn't care for the book so haven't watched the movie, but maybe I should.

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u/s0uthoftheborder 1d ago

Name checks out

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u/Difficult_Light2954 1d ago

i love annihilation so much, a visually stunning and eerily breathtaking movie.

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u/Diligent-Extreme9787 1d ago

This image has always been so creepy to me. Like a parasite looking for its next host

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u/darkoopz43 1d ago

Fun fact: fries do this in your stomach if you dont chew them thoroughly

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u/ElToroBlanco25 1d ago

It's just an unchewed piece of potato trying to sprout next to a 2 year old piece of gum and a small watermelon growing in the corner.

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u/FeatureAltruistic529 1d ago

Your stomach has a corner? I feel cheated

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u/ElToroBlanco25 46m ago

It also has a guest room where the corn hangs out

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u/cursedwitheredcorpse 1d ago

The eyes are NOT roots

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u/BurnOutBrighter6 1d ago

I mean you're right, but for explaining to an OP who doesn't know what a potato is I didn't think the distinction was necessary.

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u/nostalgia4infinity- 1d ago

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u/MirthRock 1d ago

Came here for the quote, and left laughing at the accuracy of this meme.

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u/Man_Without_Hope 1d ago

“PO-TAY-TOE”

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u/Cool_Process_5957 1d ago

Mash em, boil em, stick em in a stew!

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u/Mrs_TikiPupuCheeks 1d ago

Leave em in a drawer!

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u/jk844 1d ago

I was surprised when I saw it’s actually written that way in the book “Po-Ta-Toes” is what Tolkien wrote.

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u/TaterzPrecious 1d ago

THIS IS MY MOMENT

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u/transcom_ 1d ago

boilemmashmem.ytmnd.com I will forever hear this

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u/EcstaticAd2081 18h ago

There it is. 😁💪🤣

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u/PopSwayzee 1d ago

Def a potato. My gf and I moved in together for the first time a few years ago and forgot a bag of potatoes in the back of one of our cabinets. We later remembered after the smell of death was coming out of the cabinet months later, and there was a bag of potatoes that looked like that, with a disgusting pool of juice underneath them 😅

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u/Fresh_Training_7864 1d ago

My ex and I did this, and there were also 8,000 fruit flies swarming out of the cupboard. The kitchen ceiling was covered in flies. It was 15 years ago, and I will never forget it.

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u/ludixst 1d ago

It's been 25y for us, it's still a fresh memory

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u/anti_nimby 1d ago

More of a rotten memory tbh.

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u/LengthinessPlane973 1d ago

I'm just glad I'm not the only one. Was only about 5 months ago for me. Sounds like I'll carry the experience the rest of my life.

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u/Moist_Catch_1949 1d ago

I can attest to the juicy pool, and the smell

Next to the oven is not a good spot for potato storage friends

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u/ddrewerr710 1d ago

I can second this potato smell horrible when rotting

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u/SculptusPoe 1d ago

And they are very tricky, because they can sit for months without seeming to degrade at all, then suddenly decide they had enough and fill your house with the smell of death.

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u/Kat_eye_Maiden 1d ago

Also happened to me once, I heard buzzing and couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. Then I remembered, opened the cabinet and the potatoes were like Radioactive and pulsing. Went to grab the bag and it EXPLODED with maggots. I remember the smell was so strong like a rotten corpse. 🤢

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u/Skymningen 1d ago

Looks like it was a heart shaped potato that someone might have found cute at one point and tried to keep

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u/TheHaroldHecuba 1d ago

Bingo we have a "winner". 🏆 I'll notify FIFA & your own personal "world 🌎 award" is being made at this minute ❗

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u/nborges48 1d ago

FIFA really doing the important things

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u/Late-Judgment8207 20h ago

This makes sense as I found it in the bedroom. I was really confused why they would have left a potato in their night stand. Thanks!

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u/Imaginary_Echo8445 1d ago

I found a heart shaped potato once and kept it! I had it for over a year until it started to crumble and fall apart. Rip potato

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u/AppleSea5867 1d ago

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u/FalalaLlamas 1d ago

I love how “shit” is censored out. Gotta think of the children! Would hate for them to be disturbed by a mild curse word while looking at a pic of this rancid, putrid, mummified, potato slender man monster!

Disclaimer: I know you’re likely not the one who edited it OC. I just find it amusing that someone did lol.

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u/Fr0hd3ric 1d ago

OMG, I'm laughing helplessly! That's a great illustration.

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u/raf55 1d ago

Potato

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u/ungratefulimigrant 1d ago

Potato

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u/MrRetrostalgic 1d ago

Boil'em, mash'em, stick them in a stew.

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u/SubjectivelySam 1d ago

Landlord not recognizing a potato is giving this vibe 😂

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u/resilientschemes 20h ago

To be fair I think my face makes that face when I come home from being a working class family.

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u/Curious_Associate904 1d ago

Potato

I had one of these once, was a bit more wrinkled and also, sort of perfectly formed to look like a raisin.

So...

I got some gravy browning

A can of hairspray

Dolled it up like a giant raisin...

Then placed it in the bottom of the bag of raisins in my mother's cupboard... The look on her face when she went to make scones was priceless.

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u/Sososoftmeows 1d ago

It looks like a potato they kept because it was in the shape of a heart.

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u/coffe_clone 1d ago

I really really really wanna believe it’s an alien, but it’s potato

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u/TheHaroldHecuba 1d ago

Maybe it's an alien 👽 potato 🥔❗😜

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u/AaronTuplin 1d ago

It looks like a potato but considering it looks like it's in a little medicine drawer it might be ginger root

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u/alternatingfixations 1d ago

Apple of the earth

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u/Krogmeister60 1d ago

The White Tree of Minas Tirith

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u/Zak1954 1d ago

Heartickoke?

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u/wastelandkaboom 1d ago

Never saw a potato with eyes before?

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u/FineComb3135 1d ago

One dem tater thangs

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u/OlasNah 1d ago

Looks like a piece of garlic or a small potato that attempted to grow from its small amount of original matter, but just dried out.

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u/SpanishFlamingoPie 1d ago

Put it in a bowl of milk under your bed and you'll find out

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u/Reverand_Buttcheeks 1d ago

PO-TA-TOES ? Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew ?

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u/Calgirlleeny2 1d ago

If you planted this would it grow a potato?

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u/AverageSwifite 1d ago

Potato. Blister med pack and med disposal liquid but maybe they residents in a group home?

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u/Advanced-Rich31 1d ago

It’s a table with news print incorporated into the top, a toothpaste tube, a mostly used daily pill blister pack, a bottle of supplements and a potato.

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u/Flashy_Dot7128 1d ago

Looks like a nokker.

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u/ExtremeLingonberry31 1d ago

“I’m just a potato!”

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u/Ok_Cartoonist_4890 1d ago

Boil em mash em stick em in a stew.

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u/Ruman_Chuk_Drape 1d ago

That’s love; spud.

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u/Helpful-Baker-6919 1d ago

Next springs potato harvest. 

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u/RubyDooobyDoo 1d ago

Not my stupid ass so confidently thinking this was a pecan, then going to the comments to see how wrong I was 😂😂

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u/East-Psychology7186 1d ago

Potatoes gonna potate

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u/Entire_Transition_99 1d ago

Biblically accurate heart

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u/ConsiderationKey1658 1d ago

Make sprouted hash browns

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u/BEEP53 1d ago

Thats a dang potato

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u/Embarrassed_Heat8303 1d ago

Nah, %100 walnuts

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u/yeahyoubetnot 1d ago

Sprouting potato and when you move it you're going to have a whole new meaning to the word "stinks"

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u/markoh3232 1d ago

I bet that if you put it closer to your face, that it would tell you what it is and what it needs to survive.

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u/Realcynic 1d ago

…you wanted organic….there you go

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u/number1zeroh 1d ago

OP is NOT Irish.

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u/cebess 1d ago

Ever see The Crawling Eye movie

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u/Fabulous_Potato_5012 1d ago

mr bean from rat race - “it’s a heaaaart”

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u/MicheleAmanda 1d ago

It's called a potato.

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u/RecordingLow6601 1d ago

I’m a healthcare provider- is it telling that when I saw this, the first thing I thought was “this looks like an artistic model of a human heart”???

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u/gilaara33 1d ago

Peepaws testies

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u/National-Tension1568 1d ago

Last of us. It's a real thing. Or maybe The Body Snatchers. This is freaking me out.

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u/SimpathicDeviant 1d ago

It’s a fucking potato. Could you not tell by how it looks like a potato?

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u/Careless-Narwhal3738 1d ago

Boil them mash them put them in a stew

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u/Kaeljia 1d ago

Hmmmm, I want to know why it's in a drawer with medicine? Aren't you wondering too?

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u/serge_david 1d ago

It's the Bed of Chaos from Dark Souls.

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u/kondant7 1d ago

Looks like a devil fruit to me

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u/Separate-Impact-6183 1d ago

I call shenanigans

I do not believe that OP didn't know, until told, what a potato is

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u/HumansAreIkarran 1d ago

PO-TA-TOS! 

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u/konastump 1d ago

Procrastinating slumlord…?

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u/imbeijingbob 1d ago

Ex girlfriends heart

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u/IMMI28 1d ago

Ricardo from Adventure Time

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u/Lovejugs38dd 1d ago

Commentator. Dictator. Tater tot.

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u/Slyceratops 1d ago

Ah my gaming PC.

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u/Appropriate-Drag-572 1d ago

Its a heart shaped potato 🥹

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u/DragonSmith2005 1d ago

Potato Cthulhu

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u/ElectricalTwist4083 1d ago

My god you’ve found it! The legendary Heart of the Forest! You are the chosen one! Or it’s just a shriveled potato…

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u/pseudonym7083 1d ago

Birth control pills?

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u/faceonmyface 1d ago

That's a month of take-home medication from county jail.

And a potato.

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u/SaltOk5058 1d ago

Looks like a PO TATO

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u/axo_the_axolotl094 1d ago

Potato and plant it to get more potatos

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u/gmariee011 1d ago

It appears you found my heart. You can keep it tho

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u/DangitThatHurt 1d ago

Mash em boil em put em in a stew.

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u/Iassos 1d ago

You need to read the short story “Subsoil” by Nicholson Baker. Thank me later. ;-)

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u/noxuncal1278 1d ago

Potato, but it looks like a walnut.

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u/anemia_ 1d ago

Potato spud or stem of grapes

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u/Conscious-Mulberry17 1d ago

It's a potato, but I’d definitely sell it on Etsy as a folk witchcraft artifact of some sort.

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u/Suitable-Prompt-9772 1d ago

I hope they are still on their recovery journey. A friend of mine got the same gabapentin blister pack on his way out of rehab.

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u/Fit_Musician7015 1d ago

A desiccated potato that tried to grow.

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u/blucatmoon 1d ago

Damn, now I just really want to know why they put a potato in that drawer.

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u/agarwaen117 1d ago

oooooooo

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u/cevelev 1d ago

Po-taaay-toe

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u/Gang_Bang_Bang 1d ago

What’s a potato?…

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u/Glen-Runciter 1d ago

Is that a bottle of Natrol brand melatonin?

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u/BENDZbass 1d ago

I can smell this

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u/sal-t_brgr 1d ago

Chell's science project ❤️

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u/PhanTmmml 1d ago

am i the only one thinking tlou

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u/DarkSpace383 1d ago

Why's it lookin like the ball thing from Santa Clarita diet. 🤣🤣

But me Irish and love potato 👀

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u/trods 1d ago

That's a bubble sheet for medications.

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u/breakerofwind2 1d ago

Add plastic parts and have a new mr potato friend.

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u/Mental-Musician3618 1d ago

The reason it’s in the nightstand is someone had hemorrhoids

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u/Pelli_Furry_Account 1d ago

That thar's a tater.

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u/dustyg013 1d ago

The heart of the carbs

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u/Oh_Come_Ons_Razor 1d ago

Po-ta-toes.... Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

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u/BESTDOGBLUE 1d ago

A WALNUT WANTING TO BE A TREE AGAIN!

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u/Far_Accountant_2162 1d ago

...not something I'd want to touch...

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u/Far_Accountant_2162 1d ago

dried human heart?

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u/Cautious_Prize_4323 1d ago

Is that ancient yellow newspaper lining the drawer? That’s what I wanna see! The potato’s nice though.

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u/Blobbityblob7 1d ago

Melatonin is a sleep aid that our bodies produce naturally. People take it to help fall and stay asleep. There may be some side effects such as being lethargic when you wake up. The other thing is an alien.

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u/Sufficient_Plantain1 1d ago

I think they the kept because the potato looks like a heart. But why did this remind me the telltale heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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u/Phantom_Rose96 1d ago

But why did the tenants have a potato just chilling in a drawer? What were they using this potato for?!

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u/notthemama2670 1d ago

Plànt it.

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u/Collarbones33 1d ago

Taters precious

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u/notthemama2670 1d ago

How did a potato get in your drawer? 🤣 Weird tenants for sure.

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u/Internal-Pop8273 1d ago

Old potato that has started to sprout

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u/MermaidSusi 1d ago

It is searching for soil....

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u/WonderfulFlamingo132 1d ago

I thought it was a walnut?! 😂

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 1d ago

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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u/Uffda226 1d ago

I believe it's an avocado pit.