Don’t panic if you spot a giant potato rolling down the road this week. It’s friendly. The Big Idaho Potato Truck featuring a six-ton faux potato is the star of the Idaho Potato Commission’s national advertising campaign. The big spud measures 28 feet long, 12 feet wide and nearly 12 feet tall. It’s on its fifth cross-country tour spreading the word of Idaho’s famous potatoes. Idaho and Washington are the top-producing potato states. The flatbed truck will stop Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Super 1 Foods, 805 E. Polston Ave., in Post Falls. For every shopper who signs the truck’s signature board, the commission will donate $1 to the North Idaho Fair & Rodeo Foundation. The titanic tuber will make six more stops in the Inland Northwest this week:

• Thursday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rosauers, 10618 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane.
• Thursday, 4-7 p.m., Rosauers, 2610 E. 29th Ave., Spokane.
• Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Yoke’s Foothills, 210 E. North Foothills Drive, Spokane.
• Friday, 4-7 p.m., Yokes Liberty Lake, 1233 N. Liberty Lake Road, Liberty Lake.
• Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Super 1 Rathdrum, 15837 N. Westwood Drive, Rathdrum.
• Saturday, 4-7 p.m., Trading Co., 4235 S. Cheney-Spokane Road, Spokane.

Question: Haven't I heard more than once that North Idaho's potatoes come from Washington?