Sure, here are a few to get started:

• Who invented the thin potato chip?
• What kind of potato items were served on menus of restaurants in the early 1900’s?
• 1910 – First foil wrapped baked potato (and why this is not such a good idea unless putting it on the BBQ grill)
• 1930’s – Who was responsible for creating a market for giant baked potatoes – Toffenetti restaurants (Chicago, NYC and later Miami)
• 1942 – US Army Chicago Quartermaster requests contract for dehydrated potatoes (after successfully using dehydrated onions earlier)
• 1944 – Simplot starts producing dehydrated mashed potatoes commercially
• 1953 – First commercially successful frozen French fry invented by Chemist Ray Dunlap for Simplot corporation
• 1953 – Tater Tots® created, first sold in stores in 1954 by Ore-Ida founders F. Nephi Grigg and Golden Grigg (see also Tator Tots Variations)
• 1964- First potato skins on menus, The Prime Rib Restaurant in Washington DC and then TGIFridays
• 1970 – Curly fries at Arby’s (note: this replaced a mashed potato pellets version that was extruded and fried)
• 1983 – Wendy’s introduces the fast food baked potato with a choice of toppings (but far outshadowed by their campaign in 1984 for “Where’s The Beef?”
• 2011 – McDonald’s reduces portion of kid’s meal fries to two ounces (note original portion size of McDonald’s fries was a Large 2 ounce fry)