He found a Mr. Potato Head kit in the closet with other games, and fondly remembered playing the game with real potatoes as a boy.
Accounts of the financial crisis, in particular, have assumed the character of Mr. Potato Head kits.
His ears were two-dimensional and flat, like the plastic ears that came with Mr. Potato Head kits.
Enjoy a second breakfast of eggs, sausages, cheese and bread on the terrace of the ground-floor cafe (8 euros), then head down into KIT, or Kunst im Tunnel, a walled-in underground exhibition space that opened inside the tunnel in 2007.
But the band were so enamoured by the place and the festival that they soon told their musical colleagues to head there too – This Is the Kit, for instance, headed there in 2012, and Buke and Gase played last year.
They had a light gym session, sorted out some kit and then headed off for a hotel to complete their preparations for the long flight to Brisbane, where England begin their Four Nations campaign against Samoa on Saturday week.
I sat on the fantail and watched the sunset and the receding white line of the English coast, trying to imagine how poignant that view would be if you had just come from lunch at your club, carried a nice box of treats from Fortnum and Mason's in your kit and were headed back up to the Salient.
Hasbro's site at www.mrpotatohead.com has a Flash-driven online Potato Head construction kit, but higher-grade nostalgia is available at www.fun1st.com/collectors.html.html
It's charming, if a bit twee: a small selection of gardening implements, steel dustpans and a multi-head screwdriver kit packaged in cardboard with cute fonts and friendly explanatory language, possibly for timid young ladies who might otherwise wilt from anxiety trying to determine the difference between the hex and Phillips heads.
David Begelman, the agent turned check-kiting mogul turned producer, who headed Columbia Pictures and MGM until going bust, stole millions from Mr. Kimmel before committing suicide in 1995.
