ALL American Zack Danger Brown wanted to do was make potato salad and find a few dollars for ingredients. He has amassed 4,000 supporters, and about US$50,000 in financial support Tuesday from a campaign on Internet fundraiser Kickstarter.

    “Basically I’m just making potato salad. I haven’t decided what kind yet,” the 31-year-old man in Ohio wrote on the campaign page.

    He was initially asking for US$10 to make the picnic side dish but word quickly spread about his endeavor, which became a global sensation.

    “The thing people are responding to is the opportunity to come together around something equal parts absurd and mundane. Potato salad isn’t controversial, but it seems to unite us all,” Brown wrote on an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.

    Brown is promising donors who give US$3 or more a “bite” of one of four possible recipes, including a vegan option.

    (SD-Agencies)