Most of those spuds go into french fries for the restaurant market. With the market shut down, they're going bad in the cellars. Some have been sold to consumers locally but they aren't cleaned and packaged for the retail market. The dairy industry is huge here, too, and they've had to dump a lot of milk for the same reason. There's a convenience store about 12 miles from me that's been selling milk for $1/gal to help one of the local dairymen to keep from dumping it. Most of the dairies aren't set up to process it, though. They can only ship it in bulk and the market's dried up.
News piece from a while ago said the demand for home cook fries drove them to search for ways to repackage commercial fries. All because no one thought to temporarily waive the nutritional information labeling requirement. (Potato, salt, seasoning, preservative?)
Otherwise you could buy the brown paper sacks of frozen fries.
Or you could just cut up a potato.
Years ago, my favorite grease wagon. Guy had a fry maker on the wall. Minister potato, pull handle, throw freshly cut fries in fryolator...
Really good fries.
