Talk:potato-quality

This phrase predates cameras.

Potato quality, or potato grade predates cameras itself and the etymology of it probably predates to at least the Austro-Hungarian/Bolshevik crisis, or the Irish potato famine, it's a reference to people who have tried and failed to live off green potatoes for a myriad of reasons. It's meant to sumarise the facts that the quality/grade/standard of the object is about as good as a green potato. In simple terms, useless, or poisonous. The phrase potato grade, or potato quality existed long before the modern internet itself, in fact I can remember using the term as far back as the 1990s and I am not particularly old. This article needs a better definition, of which I have already suggested in the article itself.

The Germanic form that is still in use today is Kartoffel (car-toff-el in literal English phonetics) for instance... Which the first known usage of the word, in a similar sense to this article was in 1873, under the Grimms' Deutsches Wörterbuch. It isn't something that is new, nor does it specifically refer to images. If I stated it in German in it's modern sense it would refer to exactly the same meaning (the only thing German people seem to eat). The derogatory term, (outdated), that it is rooted in is Kartoffelwänste (literally potato stomach, or belly if translated into something meaningful, but closer to potato sausage, in reference to intestines). The term Kartoffelwänste when translated means that "you are so poor you are a person who can only afford to eat potatoes." It's a reference to what would literally be called "poverty spec" (poverty specifications) if you were to use a directly comparable term in English. 27.96.194.5 04:07, 31 January 2024 (UTC)