about 150people
They were and still are used for eating, in many forms, such as fried, roasted, boiled etc. Potatoes can be used in many meals for cooking and in Ireland they are used extensively.
you would need about 10,000lbs of tato to feed that many booties
That depends in whether you mean scalloped potatoes cooked in plain casserole form or scalloped potatoes fried. In addition, scalloped potatoes fried can be simple slices of potato or they can be coated in batter (which makes a difference to the calorie count). Please feel free to ask the question again and included more detail.
how many pounds of potato salad to feed 600
10 to 12 potatoes,better to have alittle left over than not enough.
About 80 pounds
I would do 4.5 pounds of potaato
There are too many. There are a lrge number of organic compounds in potatoes, the oild in which they are fried are also not homogeneous compounds.
35lb of potatoes will be enough especially mashed.
Ask yourself (in the context of the meal overall) how may potatoes could YOU eat. Once you have that in your head you can multiply the number by the number of guests you are intending to feed.
Are they having other vegetables. If so, then about 18 pounds of potato.