@mutton: I'm pretty sure you are right. Much like they do with Sarah Palin, the media took every opportunity to focus on Dan Quayle's naivety and/or ignorance of certain subjects. He made an appearance at a school spelling bee, and corrected a kid who he thought had misspelled potato. He went up to the chalkboard and added an E on the end. Potatoe.
Maybe he ate at the Potatoe Patch often.
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