"During the Great Depression in the US, we saw the creation of a weird dessert — potato candy. This is how Reddit user miscalculatedrisks describes it, “I grew up thinking potato candy was a normal thing everyone knew about. You take a small chunk of baked potato (or microwaved, just gotta have the cooked, fluffy texture) and mix it with enough powdered sugar to create a malleable (but not sticky) dough. You then roll that out a couple of millimeters thin, spread a layer of peanut butter on it, roll it up, wrap the tube in plastic wrap, and chill it until it gets hard. After that, just take it out and slice it into about 1 cm thick discs. A ridiculously cheap and fun activity for kids.”"