How to Butter Untoasted Bread
A foundational course in the spreading of butter upon bread that has, crucially, never known a toaster. No prerequisites.
Nihil Simplex Est
The Potato Institute
Est. MDCCXCIV
Rigorous instruction in the obvious.
The Institute offers short filmed lessons in the simplest of tasks, delivered with the seriousness they have so long been denied. Each lesson is divided into numbered steps, narrated without haste, and concluded with a certificate.
Latest Lesson · No. III
How to Eat a Hamburger
CUL 301 · XV steps · 3 min · Advanced
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Course Catalogue
Lessons currently offered
Every film is a lesson, and every lesson bears a course code. The first digit indicates the difficulty; the Faculty assures students that none of it is difficult.
How to Properly Suck on a Sucker
A rigorous treatment of unwrapping, rotation and the dignified dissolve. Prerequisite BRD 101, Bread, Untoasted.
How to Eat a Hamburger
An advanced study of a tall, unstable and unforgiving meal, including grip, orientation, the bite, and the melancholy of the empty plate. Prerequisite BRD 101, Bread, Untoasted.
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Lessons, bound.
For students who prefer their instruction on paper, the Institute Press publishes the complete text of each lesson through Amazon. Printed, numbered, and entirely without moving pictures.
- ForthcomingThe First YearCollected Lessons of the Potato Institute, Volumes I to III
Nihil Simplex Est
“Nothing is simple.” The Institute has studied the matter at considerable length and sees no reason to revise its position.
Est. MDCCXCIV