A group of British potato farmers are waging war on the world's slackers and their coined title, "couch potato."

The farmers claim the term's position in the dictionary inadvertantly gives potatoes a bad name.

So, thirty farmers gathered outside the Parliament in London picketing in protest. A separate group took their complaint directly to the office of the Oxford English Dictionary.

The British Potato Council says the phrase makes the vegetable seem unhealthy - and even suggest an alternative term, "couch slouch."

But, John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, reportedly says, "couch potato" is in the dictionary to stay.