The world is in dire straits after the latest batch of genetically engineered potatoes is discovered to be highly explosive.
——《1001 Story Ideas》Doug Schmidt
It was the harvest season, an exausted contry folk took a rest in the field, setting a fire in attempt to enjoy toasted potatoes. Boom——
With mutation spreading, farms across the world began to explode one by one. Soon, a brand new fasion of Chinese fireworks can be found everywhere, whose scale is defined by acres instead of flash count.
Alternative history: Causing of the dreadful staving clouded upon Ireland during 19th centry became such mutation instead of mildew. While the country struggled in food crisis, they found themselves sitting on the deadliest weaponary throughout the world.
After the massive withdraw of Fried Potatoe taken place across KFC, McDonald, etc, relevant market fell into a downturn. Soon, citizens found that they had to go through ID card verification even for just a single bite.
Terrorist went outside the bank, facing the police without fear. “Let us go or face our COPICO cihps” they said, lifting their clothes.
Safe potatoes became such a luxury that price of a single homemade dish can match a Michelin ☆☆☆.
Orders demanded by goverment that such potatoes should be turned in ran into dead end, since citizens that had long been angry with their ruler began to grow their own C4——one piece underground could result in a cluster in return.
Nail it, bury it.——Potato Mine Cookbook P1.
A “World Convention on potato non-proliferation” was signed.
Eating such potato could cause accumulation of explosive matter inside fat. Obesity became such a deadly disease that boomers around the street scrambled for liposuction, booming such industry as well as nitroglycerin production.
With such accumulation walking up through the food chain, soon people found themselves unable to identiry safe food. They panicked.
After great effort, people finally gathered all those mutated potatoes and dumped them into the sea. Unfortunately, sealing of containers cracked due to high pression and collision with underwater cliffs. Another round of accumulation and mutation started among contaminated marine organisms, until one day, a Godzilla rose to the surface……