See how we easily come up with solutions and the primitives can't. 
Oh, I'm sure what's involved here isn't any search for use of the small potatoes.
One has to understand the psychology of the primitives.
The primitive was "gifted" the potatoes, and wants to boast to the other primitives about how he's such a remarkable person other people freely bestow presents upon him.
The primitive just wanted to brag about that, nothing more.
The primitives give themselves away, in so many ways.....