Guy raises $15,000+ on Kickstarter - for potato salad

[UrbScotty]

The man behind Kickstarter’s $44,000 $15,000 (and counting) campaign says he’s ready for the challenge. In fact, after more than 1,900 people inexplicably committed their hard-earned dollars to fund Zack Danger Brown’s quest to make his first-ever batch of potato salad, Brown said in an interview that he feels “no pressure at all.”

“We will not be letting the Internet down,” Brown said confidently in an interview Monday from Columbus, Ohio.

The potato salad “project” is in some ways a classic encapsulation of the Internet’s promise and potential peril. Brown kept his goal simple: Help him raise $10 to try his hand at a bowl of potato salad. Mayo or vinegar based? He didn’t even know.

“Basically I’m just making potato salad. I haven’t decided what kind yet,” he wrote Saturday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/07/07/44000-for-potato-salad-the-man-behind-the-bizarre-kickstarter-campaign-explains/

[Suich]

1. I saw that on Kickstarter...

hard to believe, huh?

[Javaman]

2. Last I saw he was at 60,000!

Update.

when I checked yesterday, he was at 59K and change. now it's back down to about 44k. I guess some people didn't care for the recipe he chose. lol