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{{quote|''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Behold the potato]]! Bow to this fruit of the earth, and then peel it as if it were the last task of your miserable life!''|'''Rolf''', ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''}}
It has many names. Kitchen Patrol. Spud Bashing. Whatever it's called, it seems you [[Can't Get Away
''The'' stock [[Punishment Detail]] in the military in fiction, presumably for its instant-recognizability factor as opposed to, say, digging holes in the ground (read: latrines).
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== [[Anime]] ==
* Warrant Officer Oreldo in ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'' is ''very good'' at peeling potatoes, and references this trope as the reason why.
* A nonmilitary but definitely punishment version: one of the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' OVA episodes had Ryoko, Aeka, and Mihoshi doing this as their share of repairing the extensive damage to a hot spring resort, with varying results. Ryoko did a hack job on hers with questionable accuracy, Aeka primly carved each millimetre of skin with painstaking deliberation, and Mihoshi outstripped both easily (and boasted about it).
* In the second season of ''[[Strike Witches]]'', Gertrud gets sentenced to this for violating orders.
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* In the book, ''See Here, Private Hargrove,'' (1942) it is frequently an object of punishment. The book's setting was before the U.S. entered WWII.
* As [[Mildly Military]] as [[X Wing Series|Wraith Squadron]] could be, even they have punishment detail. The very first time all of the members of the new squadron were together at once, while Wedge was listing off their respective specialties, Face Loran decided to interrupt.
{{quote| '''Wedge''': "Face is one of our insertion experts, [[We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in
'''Face''': "Don't forget, master actor."<br />
'''Wedge''': * nods amiably* "And sometime cook. You're peeling tubers on kitchen duty tonight. Do you have anything else to add?" }}
* In ''[[Discworld
== Live Action TV ==
* Rimmer and Lister were forced to do this in an episode of ''[[
* Kendra Shaw in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]: Razor''
* [[Gomer Pyle]] does this a lot.
* ''[[MASH]]'': Klinger was frequently threatened with KP duty if he didn't knock off his [[Scheme Of The Week]] to get a Section 8. Occasionally we saw him pulling KP duty including, yes, peeling potatoes.
* On ''[[
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== Video Games ==
* While the actual event didn't happen in game, in ''[[Wing Commander (
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Lil Mell|Li'l Mell]]'' had Mell and Sergio put on potato-peeling duty when the homeschooled kid Mell brought for show and tell started a revolution against the school. Sergio lampshaded this by wondering where all the potatoes came from. (The cafeteria ladies. They joined the rebellion on the students' side.) Then Mell started a competing revolution, armed with the two potato peelers.
* [[Schlock Mercenary
{{quote| Kevyn: "Tell ''no one'' how we finished so quickly."<br />
Brad: "I'm having stuffing instead of potatoes this week." }}
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Just tell him when you're peelin' spuds, And he will peel them for you<br />
''(Donald holds up a just peeled-off potato peel spelling "Phooey!" at this point)'' }}
* A few Donald Duck cartoons have this, even ''[[
* In the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' episode "Will Work For Ed", Ed gets a job on Rolf's farm, and his first task is to peel a ''huge'' mountain of potatoes. Edd devises a machine to do the job faster, but what ''really'' ticks Rolf off is Eddy julienning the potatoes with a tennis racket.
* Poor Jim in ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' constantly gets stuck with this job.
* In an episode of ''[[The Jetsons]]'' where George joins the army, he's assigned this. It involves pressing two buttons, one to peel an entire sack of potatoes in a second, and one to mash them. He spends both seconds complaining about how hard punishment detail is.
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