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4.  HIPPOTATO WOULD GO  $23/free shipping..  After ordering, press the CONTACT button, and tell us what size you want:  S,M, L, XL men's, or
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Available in Men's or Women style.  Small, medium, large, or xlarge.sizes.  Men's shirts are Anvil 100%
cotton. Women's shirts are SunGirl 100% cotton.  All SHIRTS $23 w/FREE shipping.  HOW TO ORDER: 
All Shirts are $23 w/FREE SHIPPING.  Choose your design, Add to  cart, and Checkout your shirt(s)
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AFTER PAYING AT PAYPAL, go to CONTACT PAGE and tell us your size: S,M, L, XL men's, or M, L Ladie's size.  All shirts white only. 
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HIPPOTATO TSHIRTS
Available in Men's or Women style.  Small, medium, large, or xlarge.sizes.  Men's shirts are Anvil 100% cotton.
Women's shirts are SunGirl 100% cotton.  All SHIRTS $23 w/FREE shipping.
HOW TO ORDER:  All Shirts are $23 w/FREE SHIPPING.  Press the add to  cart and pay for your shirt at Paypal.
Then go to CONTACT page and specify which of the following designs you are ordering.  We will ship as per
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C2.  EAT ORGANIC
5x7 folded size.  full color printing /envelope.  Blank inside  Single ards individually polywrapped.  Box of 10 cards sent in custom box.
C2.  RASTA HIPPOTATO 5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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C10 HIPPOTATO WOULD GO.   5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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C11.  NINJA TURTLES  5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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C12 INDIANA POTATO  5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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C7 KEEP COOL  5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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C8 MERRY CHRISTMAS 5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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C9 PUNA HIPPY 5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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MORE HIPPOTATO TESTIMONIALS.
"This is one thing you gotta see to believe."
Anthony Sellers, Keaau, HI. 96749
"I was astounded at the sight of this potato."
    Michael Roy   PO Box 775  Pahoa, HI. 96778
  
"I recall when this potato was discovered.  It is the real deal."      Cindy Vogel, supplement manager, Island Natural Foods, Pahoa, HI.
"The Hippo potato is not a carving".
                Kaliko Kawaole  Kaliko@kalikoguys.com
"This potato has eyes, nose, mouth, and teeth, somehow all real!"         Victoria Williams  v.angel@honduras.com
"This is incredible and very, very trippy.  The eye lids and eye balls look like this potato will come alive."
                          Ethel O.    Pohakukini@yahoo.com
"Seeing is believing.  I saw and I believe."
   Kanela Carrillo  carrillokoole@hawali.rr.com


"I've never seen a potato that looked like a hippo until now.  This is a real potato.  I testify to that fact.  It is very interesting with eyes, eyelashes, teeth, and all." 
Bluet Coy, Pahoa, HI. 96778
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"My name is Althea and I was the cashier that sold Ken this cute fingerling potato, we're now calling the "Pahoa Hippo"
Althea Yabes, Cashier
ISLAND NATURALS in Pahoa, HI
"This potato has grown in a natural form of a hippopotamus.  Awesome lifelike, truly original."
   Sandra Winter HCR2 Box 6049 Keaau, HI> 96749
"Never saw anything like it.  You
must see to understand."
Manukihapai Kauhi Kalapana, HI
"I have seen with my own eyes this beautiful work of Mother Nature.  It is a real potato with no carvings or alterations!  Wow!"
          Christine Vonlayherett  myapearl@hotmail.com
"It has eyes, a mouth, eyelashes and teeth.  This is the rarest potato that I have ever seen."
     Amy Altman, HCR2 box 6300 Keaau, HI. 96749
"The Hippotato is for real"
  Cheryl Greenwood  POB858 
        Pahoa, HI. 96778
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C1 HIPPOTATO WOULD GO.  5x7 folded size.  Glossy full color printing w/ envelope, blank inside.
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C5 BAD DREAM 5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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C4 PAHOA HIPPY?  5x7 folded size.  full color printing w/envelope.  Blank inside.
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"The potato is real!  The eyes are
the shoot buds of the tuber.  The mouth and teeth are also a modified bud that formed because of a rock or other material in the soil that forced the tuber to grow around it and form the groove."
Dr. William S. Sakai
Professor of Horticulture
University of Hawaii, Hilo.


"This is for REAL.  AMAZING!!
Ric Maiava  Ken's House of Pancakes  Hilo, Hawaii.
Daryl _______ and Charlyn Yamamoto with Hippotato., Department of Agriculture, Hilo, Hawaii.
"I have only seen hippos at the zoo
in books - now an organic hippo in
Hawaii!! "  Skylark Rosetti, Hilo, Hi.
"Hippotato is Amazing! I am honored to touch and see the real
Hippotato!"  Derek Kurisu, KTA Super Stores, Hilo, Hawaii
"May this be a reminder of Mother
Nature's awesome creative power."
Keevan Hanaloa Tom, Master
Marketeer, Volcano, Hawaii.
"Very Impressive!"  Never seen
anything like it!"  Pat Koga, Mayor's Office, Hilo, Hawaii.

"Real neat!  It really looks like a hippo!" Irma Sumera, Mayor's office, Hilo, Hawaii.
"This is crazy!!!" 
Reagon Penn, Hilo, Hawaii
"I'm a spud from Idaho and this is the most amazing potato I have ever seen."        Cindy Sellers,
Angel Farms, Puna, Hawaii
"Hippotato should not be marveled
as a freak of nature."  "...God creates things unimaginable to us mortals."       Curtis Narimatsu,
        attorney at law  Hilo, Hawaii
"Wow!"  Mynah Bird
KHBC Radio, Hilo, Hawaii
"A natural grown thing like a potato
looks like a hippo!  cool!"
Polena Fonseca Jr. and friends
"I saw the real McCoy."
Debbie Jones, Quantum touch.com
"I grew up in Idaho around thousands
of acres of potatoes and have never
seen a potato shaped so uniquely as
the hippotato."
Larry Sellers, Angel Farms, Hawaii
"Wow!  Looks like a walrus!"
Renez-Smythe
"Wow! Very Amazing!"
Michelle Gonsalves
Ken's House of Pancakes Hilo, HI
"Unbelievable!"  Crysal Ojano, Wilma Kuamoo, Sharon Murray,
Ken's House of Pancakes, Hilo, HI
WHAT IS HIPPOTATO?
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Message From Ken Kudo

    For the past 33 years I’ve been involved in Hawaii agriculture and am currently a “certified”
nurseryman in tropical agriculture in the rural district of Puna, Hawaii.  I grow cycads and
export tropical foliage.  On Dec. 4, 2008 I was lucky to notice and buy an odd looking potato
that resembled a hippopotamus in the Island Naturals food store where I shop in Pahoa.  An
organic potato from Sunset Butte, Idaho, the spud weighed .1 lbs @ $1.69/lb, and cost me
17 cents.  Only after taking it home and admiring the hundreds of interesting photos and
detailed mold castings which followed, did I begin to realize how special this potato really was. 
It had 2 amazingly perfect expressive eyes complete with incredible pupils, eyelashes, and
eyelids, nostrils where they should be, an actual great shaped comical mouth with unbelievable
teeth, and a “killer” smile with attitude.   All these unbelievable natural features appeared on a
smooth face and head the shape of a hippo.  Even the neck had a flap which was identifiably
hippo.  Even more awesome than his appearance was the reaction he got.  “Hippotato” as I
named him was shown in schools, and the community, and featured in the news and on the web. 
The smiles and cheers brought on by this simple spud during its short existence surpassed what
most humans create and this fact encourages the potential in all of us.  If a simple potato can
make us smile, think of our potential as human beings.  The more I look at my figurines and
photos, its hard to believe that Hippotato is 100% not man made.  I mean, if I had to hire a
professional to create a cartoon “hippo potato” character, he could not have done any better than
what Mother Nature did here for free.  The fact that Hippotato came out of the ground looking like                     Ken Kudo
this is mind boggling.  It will be very difficult for people to believe, looking at the figurine, that the
captured details they are beholding is 100% “nature made.”  Thank you for supporting Hippotato
and may he always remind you that life is short, so smile.”               Aloha, Ken
 
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HIPPOTATO FIGURINE.  First generation detailed casting of Hippotato.  Exact, true to life likeness cast in Tuf Stone and hand painted in acrylic.  Each figurine comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by Ken Kudo, owner of Hippotato and artist.  Figurine is approximately 3" tall and is encased in a
4 1/4" x 3" glass dome with walnut base.  This is a one of a kind collector's item.  
HIPPOTATO EXACT LIKENESS FIGURINE
Tuf Stone.  Hand painted, in glass dome with
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"I was the last person to touch
Hippotato before he got "pickled
on 12/29/08, and he is unbelievable!"
Delsha Cliff-Mahi, Keaau, HI.
"A genuine McCoy potato hippo."
Linda Hue, MD

"Wow, I am amazed!  It is a real potato, not fabricated!  Its God or Nature Made!"
James Scott Mitchell, Hilo, HI
"I personally believe that Hippotato
is a hippopotamus that was reincarnated as a potato.  You have to see it to believe it."
Randy Parker, Stephanie Salazar,
KHBC Radio, Hilo, Hawaii
"Believe it or not.  As a farmer, I
never seen anything like this!  Great
to see this for real!!
Wendell Ka'ehu'ae'a
Public Broadcasting Station,
Hilo, Hawaii
"This is a real potato and it does
look like a hippo!  Unreal!!!! 
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"It is unbelievable how Mother Nature gave it complete features from pupils to nostrils to two front teeth, even little eyelashes. Believe it!!!!
Alexandra Briggs, Produce Manager
Island Naturals in Pahoa, Hawaii
IS HIPPOTATO REAL?
What's so remarkable about
Hippotato is that ALL of his
unblievable features are 100%
made by Mother Nature.  The unretouched
photos you see is what he looked like when he
came out of the ground.  There is absolutely no
man-made carving or alterations done to alter or
enhance his features.  Silicone molds and exact
replica castings have been made in Dec. 2008 to
preserve this amazing potato who is presently  on
display preserved in an alcohol/ascetic acid solution in a
sealed container at Starlei  headquarters in Pahoa, Hawaii.  

Hippotato is a real potato that looks likea hippo.  He was discovered on Dec. 4, 2008 by Ken Kudo of Pahoa at Island Naturals in Pahoa, Hawaii. Hippotato has 2 amazing perfect expressive EYES, complete with unbelievable PUPILS, EYELASHES and EYELIDS.  He has NOSTRILS, A MOUTH, with TEETH even!!  He is complete with HIPPO SNOUT,  HIPPO NECK FLAP, HIPPO FACE, plus a killer smile!!


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