Hey Mulder, open an X File...

I was performing a supper of zero effort... the baked potato with a sleeve of Smart Chili hot from the reactor on top, because that's how I roll when the wife is in South Africa. So what could be interesting about that... well nothing except there was some sort of explosion.

I've cooked my share of potatoes, not a whole lot happens.

There was potato guts everywhere, like an oven dusted with crushed up baked lays. Think about this, the potato forcibly exited the skin. (the skin turned out like a big chip itself and was quite breath taking) This was not some breach, but an explosion of the potato moving magnitude.

Scouring the web for more information I find:

1. From the urban dictionary: "potato bomb" - a form of mashed starch appearing cool on the outside yet blistering hot in the center which is often not discovered until right before swallowing where at this point it is lodged in the esophugus and burns the tissue causing swelling and loss of taste.
OH MY GOD! a potato bomb exploded in my mouth and now i have to call into work and drink beer all day to relieve the excrutiating and disabilitating pain,
by Megan Carrell Louisville KY Sep 9, 2005

2. Hot Potato Online is a fast paced arena sport game where players try to explode the opposition using a short-fused potato bomb. Think dodgeball with a grenade!

Feeling like I wasn't getting anywhere I hit an old standby, Global Potato News, your source of online potato information. I kind of felt like they are just another potato information re-hash site.... still no real information surrounding a motive or supernatural explanation.

For now, foul play had _not_ been ruled out.