Hard agree. I'd eat a lot of potatoes as an actual potato and the only one I'd generally not be arsed with is baked. Roast absolutely crushes them. Nice mash too. Chips? Easy win. Bit of gratin with a nice meal? Yes please. Potato salad for lunch? Better than baked son and you'd better believe it.
Come to think of it, I honestly cannot think of a variety I'd place below baked on the yummy spud scale.
I unironically rate a baked potato mid-to-high tier for potato. You've gotta make sure you cook it so the inside is fluffy and the skin starts to get crispy, then I always add a bit of butter, salt & pepper before the toppings
That's fair, it's just that the context suggested otherwise.
I guess if he's from northern England, and by "dinner" means the midday meal, then it makes sense. Otherwise there is no universe where baked potatoes are served for a fancy dinner. Roast potatoes are a part of a fancy dinner, though. The two cooking techniques are similar enough that I think it's not unreasonable to assume, again given the context, that it's just the wrong word.
Nah, I used to work at a country club that did black tie events and weddings, and baked potatoes did show up on the menu. If they wanted them even fancier, they could get the twice baked potatoes even.
God bless the people of the Andean Plateau, who looked at a moderately poisonous tuber that can freaking kill you, and said, "Eh, it's fine, just don't eat too many of 'em."
A few thousand years of selective breeding and hard work later, we have one of the most important crops in the world.
A loaded baked potato (butter, sour cream, cheese, chives, salt/pepper) is usually a side dish when we have "special" meals like holidays or anniversaries or whatever and I think that's what OP was goin for?
dunno if that's healthy since raw potatoes are poisonous to eat. can't imagine them being good for you to smoke out of.
but hey, when in a pickle a potato would probably do
I don't believe I've ever had fondant potatoes before. Went off to learn about them. They look delicious. Very similar to roast that we'd do in butter but I bet the rosemary gives a nice nom.
The recipe I saw calls for Russet. Not sure I've seen them for sale here either.
Yeah just fry it with a little oil in the pan until goes a bit crispy, and then chuck water into the pan and put on the lid, stir every other minute, bit of salt, pepper, and maybe one random herb, and done in ten minutes
For fried rice without having to wait a day for cold left over rice to use, fry :1 uncooked rice in oil till it gets golden brown and smells toasty, then throw in :2 water/stock and cover it tightly to simmer for 10 minutes.
Switch the heat off after those 10 mins simmering are up and don't touch the lid/pot for another 10 minutes so the steam finishes cooking the rice.
Stir in any fried rice additions once it's cooked.
The texture is spot on for 'normal' fried rice, and depending on what additions you stir in, the taste is spot on too.
Person in OP is probably from the US. Many restaurants when you order a steak, you also get a potato that’s been in the oven and cut into half way, with a bit of butter or sour cream placed inside of its open potato slit.
I don't think that's hyperbole either. It's a nutritionally complete food that's fairly easy to grow, to ship, and it holds up for a very long time without refrigeration.
The only place I've been lucky to visit where I didn't see potatoes was Costa Rica. Rice and black beans all day every day. Indians seem to like them very well. I don't know about other southeast Asian countries, China, or Japan but it seems unlikely they eat so much.
Same with Denmark and afaik the rest of Scandinavia.
Set in their ways old (70+) Danish people tend to refuse to eat anything for dinner that doesn't involve potatoes with a thick gravy and some kind of meat, preferably pork 😄
When I visited danish relatives they often made flæskesteg (a kind of roast pork, originally a christmas dish) and you can also get flæskesteg burgers and so on. That's what I think of when someone says danish pork.
All delicious, but proceed with caution if you're trying to limit cholesterol, fat, carbs, or calories as old fashioned Danish food tends to contain all of those in spades 😄
Tbh, I hear that almost exclusively from native Germans, though that might be because I had an Irish sounding maiden name and people figured I’d be insulted by potato jokes. Weirdly, I don’t hear much teasing of Germans from immigrants. I do it, like the other day I left work in socks and crocs and pointed it out as a final step of my Eindeutschung to my coworkers, so not really cutting, but I still don’t hear even light teasing much from others. The most I see is loaded eye contact whenever something is really German. Things like unbelievable bureaucracy, or very precise engineering, or an absolutely terrifying thing that’s for some reason aimed at children.
The most versitle food deserves recognition. I love potatoes so much. I had wonderful potatoes at breakfast over the weekend. And the best mashed potatoes (of my entire life) a few weekends ago. I'm pretty sure that other than eggs, potatoes are the most variable food I eat.
Probably because OP makes things extra yummy on holidays and boiled potatoes are made approximately 700% yummier by being "mechanically pre-digested" as you call it.
That's just how the science of potato magic works 🤷
159 Comments
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world · 104 pts · 1y
I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 53 pts · 1y
Potatoes au gratin
Slovene@feddit.nl · 22 pts · 1y
Or dauphinois
flandish@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Or Hasselhoff. Yes, I know it’s “hasselback” but I refuse to change.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Served on a naked Hasselhoff, right?
Right?
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Not so much these days.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 1y
The two preparations are quite similar aren't they?
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.
Secondly, yes. They're very similar indeed.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
I love a good "how dare you be so accurate!", well done! 😁
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
The initial outrage followed by tenuous agreement was very potato.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
"If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike"
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Basically the same thing, except au gratin has cheese or some sort of bechamel
9point6@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually
Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
Unpopular opinion: not even that, really. The baked potato is by far the most overrated potato.
It's not very good by the standards of food in general. Which of course makes it quite bad by the lofty standards of potatoes.
khannie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Hard agree. I'd eat a lot of potatoes as an actual potato and the only one I'd generally not be arsed with is baked. Roast absolutely crushes them. Nice mash too. Chips? Easy win. Bit of gratin with a nice meal? Yes please. Potato salad for lunch? Better than baked son and you'd better believe it.
Come to think of it, I honestly cannot think of a variety I'd place below baked on the yummy spud scale.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Baked potato salad is pretty good though.
khannie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I have never heard of that but I'm open to the experience.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Cheese, bacon, chives and (sometimes) sour cream in your potato salad. I’m into it.
9point6@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I'm curious, what toppings are you using?
I unironically rate a baked potato mid-to-high tier for potato. You've gotta make sure you cook it so the inside is fluffy and the skin starts to get crispy, then I always add a bit of butter, salt & pepper before the toppings
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 13 pts · 1y
It's just that many supposedly "fine dining" establishments phone it in with baked because they're easy and customers accept it.
BruisedMoose@piefed.social · 11 pts · 1y
Like a TWICE baked potato.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Okay, let's not go too far.
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Loaded baked twice.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Well, hon hon hon.
You guys ever tried the Cheese Bomb Tater Kegs they sell warm near the Walmart checkout?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I just assumed they meant "roast potatoes".
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1y
I assumed they meant 'baked potato' because 'baked potato' is what they said.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Don't go making wild assumptions like that without citing your sources
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Losers online hate this one weird trick
Apepollo11@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
That's fair, it's just that the context suggested otherwise.
I guess if he's from northern England, and by "dinner" means the midday meal, then it makes sense. Otherwise there is no universe where baked potatoes are served for a fancy dinner. Roast potatoes are a part of a fancy dinner, though. The two cooking techniques are similar enough that I think it's not unreasonable to assume, again given the context, that it's just the wrong word.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
Nah, I used to work at a country club that did black tie events and weddings, and baked potatoes did show up on the menu. If they wanted them even fancier, they could get the twice baked potatoes even.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah some people just always want a baked potato with a steak.
Apepollo11@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Fair point, I retract my statement! The idea of using a baked potato as a side sounds bizarre to me, but if it's a thing I guess it's a thing.
doughless@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Funeral potatoes?
Ymer@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 1y
Pommes fondantes!
stoy@lemmy.zip · 53 pts · 1y
Wanting to get drunk?
Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice
elvith@feddit.org · 53 pts · 1y
Need something to run Linux on? Potato
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 68 pts · 1y
I run starch, btw.
pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
Heh. This one's great.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
👏
rmuk@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Fucki-, just, fucking fuck off.
Upvoted, obvs. But still.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
god damnit i hate how clever this is.
bappity@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
or a homicidal AI with an unhealthy obsession to neurotoxin
astutemural@midwest.social · 38 pts · 1y
God bless the people of the Andean Plateau, who looked at a moderately poisonous tuber that can freaking kill you, and said, "Eh, it's fine, just don't eat too many of 'em."
A few thousand years of selective breeding and hard work later, we have one of the most important crops in the world.
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y
Yep hunger does some wild things to people
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
Cool science class demo about the power of compressed air? Potato gun.
sundray@lemmus.org · 28 pts · 1y
Need a battery?
Potato battery.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 1y
This is stupid. It gets plenty of recognition. Everyone loves potatoes. Makes alcohol too.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Found the Irishman.
piefood@feddit.online · 7 pts · 1y
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
More likely a Russian. Sounds like he's making vodka.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
So, more like Polish. Russia loves to try to steal the claim to vodka.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Sorry, I'm actually Japanese-Canadian. We make some potato shochu in the northern part of Japan. They're not bad, but I prefer the sweet potato kind.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y
Average evening at home? Vodka.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
That’s what I said.
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 1y
Want to get more control over the Irish? Potato Famine.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Salt, too. Try having potatoes without salt. Blech!
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 1y
Boil, mash, stick em a stew!
I heard some grow in permafrost
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
baked potato is fancy? wow
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
I think if there are chives garnished on it then it looks fancy.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I mean baked potato is as fancy as the toppings you put on it yeah but after a while it stops being baked potato
kieron115@startrek.website · 4 pts · 1y
A loaded baked potato (butter, sour cream, cheese, chives, salt/pepper) is usually a side dish when we have "special" meals like holidays or anniversaries or whatever and I think that's what OP was goin for?
nomy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
A big loaded potato is a pretty typical side for a nice steak and that definitely qualifies as fancy IMO.
kieron115@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
Exactly!
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
yeah they should've gone with pommes fondant
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
nice TIL about these, will definitely try
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Well hey we're not all Thurston Howell III, only eating julienned potatoes cooked in virgin avocado oil.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Fancy breakfast?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Is that kimchi?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Looks like salsa. That's a more common potato topping. Although I suppose that kimchee would be good, too. I've never tried it.
fubarx@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Saved that astronaut guy stranded on Mars.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Mark Watney probably never ate another potato after that though. I know I wouldn’t.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 12 pts · 1y
Recreational even.
Wanna get wasted? Vodka Wanna just launch something as far as you can? Potato gun
nonfuinoncuro@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
easy to smoke out of too
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y
dunno if that's healthy since raw potatoes are poisonous to eat. can't imagine them being good for you to smoke out of. but hey, when in a pickle a potato would probably do
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
only if you eat, like, a dozen or more large potatos raw.
having the occasional raw potato wont hurt you, unless you are dumb and eat one thats solid green.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y
Baked potatoes fancy? I love a baked potato with beans and cheese, but it's hardly fancy.
Fondant potatoes are what you want for fancy (and delicious).
khannie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I don't believe I've ever had fondant potatoes before. Went off to learn about them. They look delicious. Very similar to roast that we'd do in butter but I bet the rosemary gives a nice nom.
The recipe I saw calls for Russet. Not sure I've seen them for sale here either.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Any floury potato will do. In England we would probably use Maris Piper potatoes.
ikidd@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
The classic Irishman's dilemma: do I eat this potatoe today, or ferment it so I can drink it tomorrow?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Can't you just ferment the peels or something? I'm hungry AND thirsty!
gazter@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 1y
My man, wait until you hear about this thing called rice.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y
#allCarbsMatter
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Rice cooked in oil, for the love of god, rice cooked in oil.
Yes I know Japan does it different. Yes I know they have dedicated cookers to make it fluff. No Japan does not have a monopoly on how to cook rice.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Like fried rice or like actually cooking the raw rice in oil?
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
second one, then add water
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Ah yes this is a good way.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
So do you fry the rice before cooking it in water like normal? I've done that with pasta and that was really good
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah just fry it with a little oil in the pan until goes a bit crispy, and then chuck water into the pan and put on the lid, stir every other minute, bit of salt, pepper, and maybe one random herb, and done in ten minutes
Aksamit@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
For fried rice without having to wait a day for cold left over rice to use, fry :1 uncooked rice in oil till it gets golden brown and smells toasty, then throw in :2 water/stock and cover it tightly to simmer for 10 minutes.
Switch the heat off after those 10 mins simmering are up and don't touch the lid/pot for another 10 minutes so the steam finishes cooking the rice.
Stir in any fried rice additions once it's cooked.
The texture is spot on for 'normal' fried rice, and depending on what additions you stir in, the taste is spot on too.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Or soy.
Want protein? Soy.
Want milk? Soy.
Okay, but how about a flavorful sauce to put on your food? Believe it or not, soy.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 1y
Potato is just extra large rice
rikudou@lemmings.world · 11 pts · 1y
What's so fancy about a baked potato?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 1y
It's the low-labor, hard-to-fuck up way to make potatoes that so many "fine dining" places default to.
Note the quotes.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 1y
Baked potatoes are what you get from a food truck.
Are people meaning roast potatoes?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y
Both of those look delicious.
Person in OP is probably from the US. Many restaurants when you order a steak, you also get a potato that’s been in the oven and cut into half way, with a bit of butter or sour cream placed inside of its open potato slit.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
Ok. That is what we'd call a Baked or Jacket Potato.
However, over here, jacket potatoes are more of a "stack it high with toppings" food on-the-go thing. We love them, but don't see them as fancy.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
This is a Wendy's.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
The fact that we eat them on every occasion is recognition.
underline960@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Chozo@fedia.io · 10 pts · 1y
You would be quite welcome in !potatoism@lemmy.world.
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Joined thanks 😊
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
I thought that read potataoism and was expecting spiritual memes about potatoes. I don't know what to think anymore
ogeist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Breakfast? Apple. Fast food? Apple. Fancy dinner? Apple. Holidays? Apple. Relaxing at home? Apple. There's Apple
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 14 pts · 1y
Always an Apple shill in the comments
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Potatoes are apples of the ground.
Enkrod@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Pomme de terre
ogeist@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
no, bad Apple
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
dirt apple
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Potato is the apple of the potato world.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
TIL in America, Baked Potato with a Steak is “fancy”, rather than “a Wednesday”.
I’d say the same about eg. Chicken “Kiev” with Potato Dauphinoise, standard ready meal gastropub fare.
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
American, here - definitely not fancy, but it's a common side for a steak, so I assume that's where the association comes from.
I'd expect "fancy" potatoes to be something like fondant, hasselback, or a well-done scalloped (dauphinoise, boulangere, anna).
Source: huge food snob
MTK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Alcohol? Vodka! Starch to make bread? Potato starch! 2 potatoes? 1 potato in the ground!
phantomwise@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
They're really versatile, I'm even using one as a laptop.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Some of my photos were taken with a potato camera
renzhexiangjiao@szmer.info · 7 pts · 1y
potatoes are one of the few foods you can eat exclusively and survive for long periods of time
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
IF you also have milk or some other source of dairy.
renzhexiangjiao@szmer.info · 2 pts · 1y
that would mean mashed potatoes is the ultimate food
arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
Living that potathoe lifestyle
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 5 pts · 1y
Who the fuck only eats mashed taters on christmas
yournamehere@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
germany approves
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
milk_steak@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Something to play Doom on? Potato.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
The ultimate goal of course is to install linux on an actual potato.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Is there a country where potatoes are not eaten?
It's essentially an untapped vessel for world peace, if you think about it.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
I don't think that's hyperbole either. It's a nutritionally complete food that's fairly easy to grow, to ship, and it holds up for a very long time without refrigeration.
The only place I've been lucky to visit where I didn't see potatoes was Costa Rica. Rice and black beans all day every day. Indians seem to like them very well. I don't know about other southeast Asian countries, China, or Japan but it seems unlikely they eat so much.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Potatoes, some sort of boiled dough, and some sort of raw meat dish show up in basically every culture around the world
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Irish famine. Edit: there is not a potato for every occasion.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Does a sweet potato count?
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
An honorable mention for sure.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Quick photo to ask for help with a technical issue? Potato cam!
badbytes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Corn: hold my beer
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Rice: hold my sake
Hemp: hold your breath
jackeroni@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
pticrix@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Nah.
ZMoney@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Potatoes get plenty of recognition and always have.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Apparently potatoes are a staple food in South America, ao OP isn't alone in this.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
They’re a staple food in Germany, too
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Same with Denmark and afaik the rest of Scandinavia.
Set in their ways old (70+) Danish people tend to refuse to eat anything for dinner that doesn't involve potatoes with a thick gravy and some kind of meat, preferably pork 😄
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1y
How is the pork prepared and served? I think I want to eat this thing you speak of.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
When I visited danish relatives they often made flæskesteg (a kind of roast pork, originally a christmas dish) and you can also get flæskesteg burgers and so on. That's what I think of when someone says danish pork.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Oh hundreds if not thousands of ways!
There's the flæskesteg the other reply mentioned
There's the official national dish Stegt flæsk
There's frikadeller
There's Karbonader
And many, many more 😁
All delicious, but proceed with caution if you're trying to limit cholesterol, fat, carbs, or calories as old fashioned Danish food tends to contain all of those in spades 😄
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
They're the only food in Germany, some might say.
Enkrod@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
So much so that our immigrant population refers to Germans as "Kartoffeln" (potatoes)
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Tbh, I hear that almost exclusively from native Germans, though that might be because I had an Irish sounding maiden name and people figured I’d be insulted by potato jokes. Weirdly, I don’t hear much teasing of Germans from immigrants. I do it, like the other day I left work in socks and crocs and pointed it out as a final step of my Eindeutschung to my coworkers, so not really cutting, but I still don’t hear even light teasing much from others. The most I see is loaded eye contact whenever something is really German. Things like unbelievable bureaucracy, or very precise engineering, or an absolutely terrifying thing that’s for some reason aimed at children.
zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Picnic? Potato Salad!
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
The most versitle food deserves recognition. I love potatoes so much. I had wonderful potatoes at breakfast over the weekend. And the best mashed potatoes (of my entire life) a few weekends ago. I'm pretty sure that other than eggs, potatoes are the most variable food I eat.
clockworkrat@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
Why is mash a holiday food? They're just mechanically pre-digested boiled potatoes.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
I can't speak for your anatomy, but my digestion process doesn't add milk and butter.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Probably because OP makes things extra yummy on holidays and boiled potatoes are made approximately 700% yummier by being "mechanically pre-digested" as you call it.
That's just how the science of potato magic works 🤷
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
A nice, cold, peeled potato with salt and pepper on it is a suprisingly refreshing snack
fungalfelidae5@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
hell yes i love cold potato
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Bar snack? Loaded potato skins
psoul@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Stretched too thin? Potato starch
Bored? Potato Head
Horny? Believe it or not, potato head
jaybone@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 1y
YOUR MOM IS A POTATO FOR EVERY OCCASION
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
Wait till you Google corn