The man who asked for $10 to make potato salad on Kickstarter and ended up earning more than $55,000 will make good on his promise to throw a PotatoStock 2014 charity-minded party in Columbus, Ohio.
The party will feature live music, food trucks, booze, a potato sack race, and more than 300 pounds of potato salad, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
Zach Brown, 31, partnered with the Columbus Foundation to start an endowment to help fight hunger and homelessness. The account started with $20,000 after corporate donations and is expected to grow once the proceeds from the spud party are factored in.
"Basically I'm just making potato salad. I haven't decided what kind yet," the Short North Web-design company co-owner originally wrote on his Kickstarter page back in July; the campaign quickly went viral.
By the time he reached about $1,500, the crowd-funding genius wrote "we're really tearing through these stretch goals. I honestly don't know what is realistic anymore. So, I thought maybe we try to double the current number?
"My kitchen is too small! I will rent out a party hall and invite the whole internet to the potato salad party (only $10 and above will be allowed in the kitchen)! The internet loves potato salad! Let's show them that potato salad loves the internet!!"
Now the day is almost here; this Saturday Brown has invited "the whole Internet" to the party, and will have enough potato salad to feed a half-ounce sample to each of the thousands of donors who gave at least $3 to the campaign, provided they show up.
Brown will have help from friends and the chain Piada Italian Street Food in the intimidating task of making the potato salad. They will use a recipe created by the restaurant containing "fresh basil pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and rich Montamore cheese," the newspaper reported.
"The thing that is the most shocking to me is how much I've enjoyed this from the word go," Brown told the Dispatch. "I just had no idea this was something I was capable of."
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