"Wo ist die heilige Kartoffel?"

Translation: Where is the holy potato?

[HuibRenes]

I think this is just a sentence to learn a word, nothing special. (now: rise of the potato believers)

[DETERMINATION.]

FIRST FOLLOWER!!!

[Hmm88]

ZWEITE MICH

[LandaWalsh]

SECOND FOLLOWER!!!

[endoblin]

You thought it was dio, BUT IT WAS ME! POTATIO >:D

[Ana738550]

Ah, so the potato Duo was talking about in the phrase "Möchtet ihr die Kartoffel sehen?" was a holy potato? It finally makes sense now!

[dfwgator]

Wo ist die heilige Handgranate von Antiochia?

[th00rn]

The horse ate it :)

[SecretlyAHippo]

Help! The horse is eating the holy potato!

That made my day, here's a lingot!

[th00rn]

Thank you :)

[TimothySch15]

Holy cow! Er... Horse!

[CarlFilip19]

Das Pferd aß sie (es).

[Gustav_Schmidt]

He did indeed, but it was the holly horse.

[AztecGator]

Das Pferd frasst die heilige Kartoffel. :)

[KZs782070]

"Ich glaube an das Pferd..." Kaiser Wilhelm II.

[AnaSmith507855]

This whole section is kind of wacko.

[Das_boobs]

Where is the holy eggplant is my question..

[OmarHydrah]

Next to the holy onion.

[Shirlgirl007]

Ok I'll bite, what is this about? Is it some sort of expression, or idiom?

[KDickins103]

no clue

[BogdanTudorB]

Ich werde fur euch biete

[Myrrha01]

.. beten? Like in "I will pray for you"?

[Amy1706]

There are waaay too many hits on Google on this topic :-)
Whoever wrote this sentence may have heard the story posted by the Nürnberger Zeitung in 2010 called "Oh You Holy Potato" referring to two seperate families who both cut into a potato to find the sign of the cross.
What?!

[Meena156525]

Oh you holy potato
The potato in this story must have ability to talk , too

[DeanVaksma]

I think it's a Terry Pratchett reference

[LokiOdinson4]

This is the best Duolingo sentence ever XD

[GRFk9]

We of the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster reject the false carbohydrate.

[idasoma]

I don't think I will ever need to use this vocabulary

[Shirlgirl007]

You might need to ask a question "Where is the _.".. from time to time. I try to look at the sentence structure, not necessarily the exact words in each sentence...

[TheSnark]

Next to the Holy Handgrenade.

[Gary54437]

And the potato said, "Let there be light!"

[dennyrobertson]

This is one explanation from Google:

Urban Dictionary: Holy Potato
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy Potato
Holy Potatounknown. The Holy Potato is made up of three minor potatoes. The Baked Potato, The Sweet Potato, and The Unchanged Potato. The Baked Potato is the being of willpower, The Sweet Potato is the master of wisdom, and The Unchanged Potato is the mind of knowledge. These three spirits combined make the Holy Potato, one organism that lives is the dimension between dimensions.

[k33zee]

I know that this is a common Irish phrase, but didn't realize it translated to German also.

[Frank395159]

Wasn't there a holy pumpkin in the Charlie Brown comics

[LokiOdinson4]

"OH GREAT PUMPKIN"

[toperluck]

I guess Duo Lingo never heard of collocation.

[Andrew672970]

Oh praised be thou, oh holy potato.

[LuisaHuber1]

bitte was ist eine heilige Kartoffel?

[Luis116720]

I think that is an error, I think is Pope, no potato

[Stenno1]

Maybe it is from Doitsuism, a religion based off the Hetalia character Germany, or "Lord Doitsu." The three most sacred items of the Doitsu religion are the potato, wurst, and beer, which form the "Holy Trinity" of the Doitsu religion.

[GSToujou]

RUSH B

[Peter51973]

Soooo boring Duolingo

[Myrrha01]

Not really! I can imagine a discrete mention of "a potato" in that comic series about the WWII French resistance movement "Alo, alo" ..

[Peter51973]

This joke was mildly funny the first time but is just boring and disrespectful to religious people the 100th time.

[Neotist]

What an absurd statement.

[Myrrha01]

Yes, it's absurd and that's what makes it funny because you'd normally expect other things to be "holier than" an ordinary potato! That's how a comic effect is produced.

[Myrrha01]

Ich finde es komsich! "The holy potato"; "They wanted to see the potato"! Duo carries on with this playful innuendo as if they're hinting at something else rather than a garden vegetable i.e. as if it's a code name for some illegal stuff! This cracks me up every time there's a mention of "a potato"! A holy potato, of all things!