100 Word Challenge
Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words (no more, no less) based on this prompt:
It was an enormous potato!
Remember you can write a story, a description, a poem, some facts… whatever you like! Just make sure you check that your punctuation is accurate and you use capitals correctly!
Once upon a time, there was a potato called Mr Subulah. One day it was his wife’s birthday so he wanted to surprise her with a big chocolate cake. He walked to the supermarket to buy a cake because he wasn’t bothered to actually bake one. When he got there he accidentally bought the cream version instead of the chocolate one and he hadn’t realized that until he jumped out and sang ‘happy birthday, with the cake in his hand at home.
Straight after Mr Subulah’s wife said “How did you know? I love cream cake! and I love you.”
Hamza! I’m so impressed that you completed the 100 word challenge this week – lovely to read your creative writing. I can’t wait to read next week’s….
Robin’s family were poor. They owned a small farm. Robin was looking through the vegetables. He found lots of carrots, a few cabbages and 3 GIANT potatoes!! Robin showed his mum. They sold them at the market. They got home with £184.21 and Robin’s father bought a few more animals along with a carpenter to build a bigger farm. They had a good feast. The next morning, there was another massive potato. They decided to eat it that night with the left overs of the feast. This happened again and again and again. They were now quite very fat.
This is a great short story, Danny. You’ve got the whole plot down in just 100 words!
Every Monday my mum makes the same thing. Mashed potato and sausages. It was alright to have that for the first few weeks. By a month it was boring. In a year we thought we would die. I know what you’re thinking, “It’s not that bad” you say. Well, believe me, it is. Mum uses “organic potatoes” which are covered in mud. Problem is she doesn’t wash them. Christmas dinner? No. Sunday lunch? No. I got home from school one day and in the kitchen was the most gigantic potato I had ever seen.”Mum”, I said, “What is ….that thing?”
It Was An Enormous Potato!
The farmer looked grimly at how many potatoes he had grown. None. He knew that if he did not grow any potatoes and then sell them soon, he would not have enough money to pay for the mortgage on his farmhouse. He stumbled to his bed and hoped the morning would be more successful. As he woke up the next morning, he noticed a black shape sitting in his potato field. He rushed down the stairs to see what it was. And there it was. The farmer thought he was dreaming. There in front of him was an enormous potato…
It was mostly made out of an enormous potato. It was SUPPOSED to be meat pie, but it was potato pie. One piece of meat and the rest was tasteless, bland potato. Also it was ten o’clock, nowhere near lunchtime, more like a late breakfast time. It was cold, even when I first got it. Beside it had overcooked soft, flabby beans and hot POTATO mash made with the wrong sort of potato. For pudding there was custard made with mashed up again POTATOES in it. It was luke warm. That was the worst lunch ever!
I’m sure this gruesome description can’t be of your mum’s delicious dinners! “Soft, flabby beans” just makes my skin crawl!
Arnold has assured me this is NOT a description of my cooking! Though we did have mashed potato this evening…
If you have an enormous potato there are many ways to cook the most versatile vegetable on the planet:
• Mash: creamed; cheesy; garlic; sour cream; chives; bubble and squeak; colcannon
• Chips: oven; fried; french fries; with skins on; fat; curly; crinkle cut; with salt, vinegar, onion vinegar, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup.
• Baked: with butter; baked beans; cheese; sour cream; chilli con carne.
• Wedges
• Potato skins
• Potato salad
• Boiled
• New
• Roasted
• Potato Gratin
• Fondant
• Croquette
• Waffle
• Irish farls or Tatty Scones
• Bread
• Crisps
• Potato soup
A very creative alternative to write a list of recipes – I’ll definitely have to try some of these.
A bumpy, lumpy, rotten thing stared at him from his revolting plate of food. It was an enormous potato and Jack really detested potatoes. He was sure he was allergic to potatoes but he had never eaten one before. Now he was at a friend’s house and had no clue what was for dinner. He had hoped for pasta, or rice or even brussel sprouts. But there it was. A potato. Luckily there was a dog waiting for food under the table. Jack pretended to drop the potato on the floor. The dog sniffed it and walked away. “More potato?”
Fantastically vivid description of the ‘bumpy, lumpy, rotten potato’, Luc!
It was an enormous potato!! By Louis Sayers
Joe was an ordinary boy.
He had an ordinary school
and he had ordinary
school dinners.
Now, he was in the queue lining up for stew,
when he noticed something not so quite ordinary at all.
And when he got to the front,
the dinner ladies plopped something vile on his plate.
Then cackled as he was shooed away.
Those witches. He’d get them some day.
He sat at the nearest table
when he realised he couldn’t walk
with the heavy object, of distraught
He looked at the huge mound that stood before him.
It was a potato, except this potato was mouldy and green.
He had to stay there until he ate it
and he’s still there to this day……..
Another fabulous poem, Louis! Luckily our yummy school lunches aren’t like this!
It was an enormous potato
Bigger than ever before
It got so ginormous
It couldn’t fit through the door.
When it was in the ground
Its mother was rather round
But as the wind blew
It grew and grew and grew.
It was an enormous potato
Bigger than ever before
It got so ginormous
It couldn’t fit through the door.
What happened next
Should’ve been put in text
Some people called it lame
The potato experienced fame.
It was an enormous potato
Bigger than ever before
It got so ginormous
It couldn’t fit through the door.
It was a truly enormous potato.
It took quite some debate though
To decide what we could
Do with that spud.
So I asked my dad
Because it was driving me mad.
He said “Wow, that’s a whopper!
Go get the chopper”
He sliced up that beast
So that we could feast.
Take one huge potato
And slice rather thin,
Place in layers in a tin,
Season well and cover with cream
So it will taste like a dream
Place in the oven, really quite hot.
Leave for one hour and what have you got?
A truly delicious, enormous potato!
David had a very poor family. He had a small farm with one pig. One day there was a rumbling, then the ground shook, the sky went dark and a huge shape fell out of the sky. It was a potato! David’s father Stephen burst out. They sold the potato for £100,000,000,000,000,000 so they bought some builders and a godzillas worth of farm animals. They had a feast and got super obese. Eventually they ran out of money and lost the farm and the godzillas worth of animals and then a grumpy,short-tempered man called Richard took it.
Farmer Billy planted a potato seed but then forgot about it. Luckily for the little seed it rained every night and the sun came out all day. At the same time the villagers’ crops weren’t growing and everyone was running out of food. Everyone was starting to panic. Farmer Billy went to check his crops when he remembered the potato. He started to pull it from the ground to find it was an enormous potato, the biggest in the world. The villagers had lots to eat. Every kind of potato dish you could think of was there and everyone was full and happy!
The farmer only had one day left for the biggest potato competition in Ireland and was dreaming that he was going to win! In the morning he was so excited he jumped out of his bed and then rushed out to dig up his potatoes but what he found was a tiny greasy yellow sphere. He tried the others. No luck. As he was walking back in shame he tripped over something, the farmer turned to see what it was, a 3D oval glinting in the sun. He dug it up, it was ENORMOUS, it was surely going to win!!!!
“Greasy, yellow sphere”, what a vivid description!
Once upon a time there was a poor boy called Tony. He grew all vegetables except potatoes .One day it was his mum’s birthday and he knew that she liked big potatoes . She really wanted her birthday at Tony’s house. He wanted her to be happy for her birthday .He went to see his friend to ask them to help for his mum’s present .They decided to go to another farmer that had lots of big vegetables. When they came to the farmer they found the big potatoes they were looking for… What a SURPRISE for his MUM and his mum was proud of her son’s work!
One day there was a potato competition. Lots of people did it. This little girl, she grew one herself. It was really big and it had lots of bumps. It was was the biggest potato it the world . The judge was impressed with the big potato, and after that day she was known for having grown the best potato it the world. She got a larger and nicer house and she had lots of animals on her farm. She is still growing big potatoes. Her name was Emily. Emily eats them, and grows other big tasty veg.
In a small valley there was a vegetable patch and the man who owned it had always wanted to have the biggest and best vegetables in the neighbourhood but he never had.
One day the man came out into his garden and to his astonishment saw some big green leaves sticking out, the next week the leaves were even bigger. Three days later they were as big as the house. So the man dug the potato up and found a small door and went in and he was never seen again.