Here's a proto Mr. Potato Head from The Story of a Feather by George Du Maurier, 1867.

Here's a precursor to the song "I Only Have Eyes For You."  From Caricature; Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story, 1911.

Here's a precursor to VeggieTales, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1904.

Potatoes from heaven, apparently, and a precursor to this 1949 story of firefighters in the Sierra Nevada Mountains who dumbfoundedly watched as a supply plane dropped a hundred-pound sack of potatoes directly atop a full-sized iron stove that had been carried by mules to the peak.  Our heavenly potatoes illustration appears in Prodigiorvm ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.

These visionary potatoes appear in St. Nicholas magazine.

An illustration from a 1917 issue of Puck magazine.

"Potato sings": an illustration from an 1882 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "She slammed the dish of hot potatoes full in his face."

Here's a 46-ton potato eaten at sea, from Harmsworth Magazine, 1899.  It is followed by another extraordinary potato, from The Tin Drum.

Geof Huth contends that "There is no opposite of potato."  He may be correct, and we'll be open to agreement once we're finished peeling all these "negative potatoes" (a.k.a. "antipotatoes).