Frying today. The humble potato is being celebrated in style.
It's International Potato Day on August 19 and what better way to celebrate than by looking back at potato-themed spuds from the Echo archives.
So here's our serving of potato picking, camping, hot potatoes and plenty more spuddy scenes from the past.
5. Yummy for lunch
An early lunch of new potatoes for these youngsters at their camp near South Hylton in 1954. | se
6. Hello, Potato Man
Saying hello to the Potato Man in Joplings were Eunice Rogers, 10, and Wendy Jobling, 7, in 1974. | se
7. Back breaking work
Ian Henderson 13 and Alan Butler 12, pupils of Ryhope Comprehensive School, endured the rain to keep on potato picking at Tunstall in 1974. | se
8. On your marks
A potato race was one of the events in the programme of Silver Jubilee events at Cramlington Square in 1977. | se