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Walmart's Funeral Potatoes Are Confusing (and Scaring) Everyone on the Internet

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Everyone, keep calm. Walmart's new Facebook ads are not threatening you. Funeral potatoes are a real thing. And they're delicious.

Love them or hate them, funeral potatoes are a staple in Utah and Mormon kitchens, but the rest of the internet just discovered this creepy-sounding dish.

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Walmart ads on Facebook have recently been featuring Salt Lake-based Augason Farms’ dehydrated funeral potatoes and the name is apparently disturbing to out-of-staters.

What... what are "funeral potatoes" Is Facebook's algorithm threatening me pic.twitter.com/dtNPEA5WQb — Bibliobimbo (@sebhar) March 28, 2018
Funeral potatoes are so popular in Utah that an official trading pin featuring funeral potatoes was made for the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002. https://t.co/9WrOti3nhjpic.twitter.com/00aaglDz0w — Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 4, 2018
Is it just me, or does anyone else find the name of this potato casserole mix disturbing? The back side says "potatoes to die for" - now that's kinda funny ? ? ? https://t.co/v7ic0ZJRB1 — Melanie Seppeler (@ArtsyCatDesigns) April 2, 2018

The circulating ads spurred a #funeralpotatoes trend on Twitter and it garnered enough attention to warrant explainer pieces from Today.com, theNew York Postand Fox News.

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