Steve Asher wrote in a message to Tony Frosdick:

 SA> Wait 'til the State issues your biometric-enabled "smart" ID card;
 SA> it will be a crime to buy or sell potatoes without it. That will be
 SA> evidence that you will cut them up into chips to eat with your
 SA> fish, & could place your kids in danger of becoming obese, so the
 SA> State will need to seize your potatoes (and kids) and put them into
 SA> institutions for their own safety.

There ya go,  use of a "smart card" to slice potatos with...

I knew they had to be good for something!

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