Potato Salad Kickstarter Funds To Be Used For Charity Concert

Zack Brown, also known as the Potato Salad Kickstarter Guy, has raised more than $55,000 to make potato salad on the funding platform Kickstarter.

Brown, from Columbus, Ohio simply wanted to make a potato salad. “I’m making potato salad. Basically I’m just making potato salad. I haven’t decided what kind yet,” he wrote on the Kickstarter page. He even added a disclaimer on the Risks and Challenges portion of the page saying, “It might not be that good. It’s my first potato salad.”

Brown’s initial goal was to raise $10 for the potato salad, but his Kickstarter post was an online sensation and soon afterwards, he gained plenty of backers and raised thousands of dollars.

When the campaign closed, Brown was able to raise a total of $55,492 from 6,911 backers. The amount seems a bit too much to make potato salad, so Brown is throwing a music festival and donating all the proceeds to charity, TIME reports.

The concert, which will be held on September 27, is not just any ordinary concert. It will be potato-themed and will appropriately called PotatoStock.

PotatoStock will feature several local artists and there will also be concession stands selling food. The proceeds will go to the homeless in Central Ohio, particularly to the Columbus Foundation according to Kens 5.

“This will create a permanent fund to help Central Ohio’s non-profits end hunger and homelessness. These types of funds gain interest every year and grow over time, so, while our little Internet joke will one day be forgotten, the impact will be felt forever.”

Brown’s efforts to arrange the concert has already been heard by many, and others are saying that Idaho Potatoes and Hellmann’s will be sponsoring the event.

Brown became an Internet sensation soon after his Kickstarter post. Just last week, he travelled from Ohio to Canada just so he can learn to make potato salad with a Canadian twist. He spent a day at Jack Astor’s restaurant and learned how to make potato salad from the restaurant’s executive chef Adrian Whitfield.

Brown said that he isn’t much of a cook, but he said that potato salad is a common dish that everyone can relate to. “It’s always served on Memorial Day and on Labor Day. It signals the beginning and end of summer,” he said.

The potato salad kickstarter campaign isn’t the only crazy idea that got funded. Other campaigns that were funded include the grilled cheezus, the coolest cooler, an ostrich pillow, the ultimate spatula, and The Campaign for the Accurate Measurement of Creativity.

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