And yes, if you can't find new potatoes, you'll also get excellent results with regular small potatoes.
A news release on the McDonalds website said: "Customers will find McChoco Potatoes enjoyable for different occasions, as it also makes for a great dessert.
"At the end of the season, one boy spent 45 minutes digging in the dirt, trying to find the potatoes that he had planted," she said.
But if you can't find new potatoes, any waxy potato will do in this recipe.
These, of course, eventually arrive frozen at your local fast-food outlet, where you'd be hard pressed to find a potato peeler.
Indeed, most Christmas gift-giving traditions not only include corresponding consequences for bad behavior (some Scandinavian ne'er-do-wells might find potatoes in their shoes), but also a dark, mischievous undercurrent of pagan, Christian and post-harvest customs.
If you find the mashed potatoes are too moist, add some more flour.
You won't find apple-potato chat ($6) in Delhi made with Yukon Gold potatoes and Hudson Valley apples, but the crystal clear flavors, mixing sweet tamarind, sour lime, spicy chili and smoky black salt, are pure Indian.
The starch found in potatoes, beans, grains or breadcrumbs often does the trick.
They found some potatoes; they also found a stove, and set it up in the ward, and cooked the potatoes on it, and passed them around.
