Potatoes deserve recognition
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What's so fancy about a baked potato?
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I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
Funeral potatoes?
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What's so fancy about a baked potato?
It's the low-labor, hard-to-fuck up way to make potatoes that so many "fine dining" places default to.
Note the quotes.
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Alcohol? Vodka! Starch to make bread? Potato starch! 2 potatoes? 1 potato in the ground!
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I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
It's just that many supposedly "fine dining" establishments phone it in with baked because they're easy and customers accept it.
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Or dauphinois
The two preparations are quite similar aren't they?
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It's the low-labor, hard-to-fuck up way to make potatoes that so many "fine dining" places default to.
Note the quotes.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Baked potatoes are what you get from a food truck.
Are people meaning roast potatoes?
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potatoes are one of the few foods you can eat exclusively and survive for long periods of time
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I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
I just assumed they meant "roast potatoes".
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The two preparations are quite similar aren't they?
Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.
Secondly, yes. They're very similar indeed.
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Why is mash a holiday food? They're just mechanically pre-digested boiled potatoes.
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Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.
Secondly, yes. They're very similar indeed.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I love a good "how dare you be so accurate!", well done!
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Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually
Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better
wrote on last edited by [email protected]baked potato is just a solid lunch choice
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.
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Breakfast? Apple. Fast food? Apple. Fancy dinner? Apple. Holidays? Apple. Relaxing at home? Apple. There's Apple
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Want to get more control over the Irish? Potato Famine.
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They’re a staple food in Germany, too
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
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I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives
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Why is mash a holiday food? They're just mechanically pre-digested boiled potatoes.
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
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Breakfast? Apple. Fast food? Apple. Fancy dinner? Apple. Holidays? Apple. Relaxing at home? Apple. There's Apple
dirt apple
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Boil, mash, stick em a stew!
I heard some grow in permafrost
