Just a note to say that I was aware of the double meaning, and that my post just meant to be a joke, but wasn’t aware of the controversies around that term and had no idea some people might feel offended by it.
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Well, those people who feel offended by being called “Kartoffel” are mostly conservative and somewhat racist Germans who often wouldn’t mind using racist slurs. 
So please don’t worry about them.
Btw, I like using the word “Kartoffelhintergrund” (“potato background”), including for myself, as a counterpart of “Migrationshintergrund” (“background of migration” - a term that has its own story).
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Yeah, I’m a Kaaskop (Cheesehead) 
I wouldn’t feel insulted being called that.
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And i am a frog (who lost his pond long time ago). Now frogs +cheese +potatoes sounds like a good start for some delicious recipe.
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as “pottu”
^_____^
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Yeah, aware of that, having been linksgrün versifft politically aware and sometimes also active since ’73 …
I absolutely love “Kartoffelhintergrund”, thanks for that, I will incorporate it into my active vocabulary (if I remember it 
).
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