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Article: Are couch potatoes an endangered species? No, but potato farmers want term banned.(Couch Potato ban)
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- Quick Frozen Foods International
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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British potato farmers are out to ban the couch potato. No, not the people who sit in front of TV all day--the epithet for those people, reportedly coined in 1982.
The British Potato Council is trying to get the expression stripped from the Oxford English Dictionary and replaced in everyday speech with the term "couch slouch." Groups of demonstrators were planning to stage protests outside the Oxford University Press offices and in London's Parliament Square when this story was filed.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "couch potato" started life as American slang. It means: "A person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting ...