Man buys bag of potatoes from Walmart. Then he opens it up and takes a look at what’s inside: ‘Have had the worst luck with that brand’

‘Never buy produce from Walmart if you can avoid it.’

A TikTok creator going by @gooblers.kn0b filmed the contents of a five-pound bag of russet potatoes he says arrived in a Walmart order—and the haul included one lopsided giant roughly the size of the face of the young child standing next to him.

Walmart Delivery Order With Strange Spuds

Standing in his kitchen, the creator lays out the evidence one piece at a time.

“We ordered this bag of potatoes from Walmart, and look what’s in it,” he says.

The first two exhibits are less spectacle than setup—a potato that had already been cut and its other half. “First, a cut potato, right? Then the other half to that cut potato, right?”

Then comes the closer.

“But this is the most impressive—a giant potato,” he says. Then, he flips the phone, shows his young daughter, and puts the potato beside her head.

“Size of her face,” he jokes.

Five-pound bags are sold by weight, not count, which gives retailers wide latitude over what actually ends up inside. In theory, that could mean a dozen uniform russets. In practice—as the creator demonstrates—it can mean a couple of halved seconds and one specimen large enough to moonlight as a household ornament or a curiosity you’d show a guest.

‘Walmart Never Fails to Disappoint’

In the comments section, viewers said experiences like @gooblers.kn0b’s are why they shop for themselves or don’t buy produce at Walmart. Some also made light of the situation.

“Oh my God, this is why I pick out my own produce,” said one person. “I would never pay somebody to pick it out for me.”

Another person joked, “That’s like Three Mile Island potatoes.” The Three Mile Island mention is about a partial nuclear meltdown of a reactor near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

But for one person, that monster potato was exactly what they were looking for. “When I say I want a loaded baked potato with bbq meat on it, this is exactly the potato I want,” they wrote.

A Bag Is What You Make of It

Grocery TikTok has spent the past year auditing what shoppers actually receive when they buy produce sold by the bag. In April, TikTok user @zuesandlouienation1 filmed himself weighing multiple “five-pound” Walmart potato sacks and finding several well under the advertised weight—one at 3.15 pounds, another at 3.49. He told Newsweek corporations know busy parents don’t “track the price of each item at checkout” against what’s on the shelf tag.

At the other extreme, a single spud can occasionally justify the whole trip. In 2021, New Zealand gardeners Colin and Donna Craig-Brown dug up a 17.4-pound potato they nicknamed “Doug”— briefly a Guinness contender—while weeding. “It was just huge,” Donna told the Associated Press, per Smithsonian.

@gooblers.kn0b’s russet won’t dethrone Doug. But held up next to a small child’s cheeks, it makes the same argument: what’s in the bag a machine puts together is never quite what you think.

AllHipHop reached out to @gooblers.kn0b via TikTok direct message and comment and to Walmart via email contact form. We will update this story if they respond.

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