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[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago
[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

The two preparations are quite similar aren't they?

[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.

Secondly, yes. They're very similar indeed.

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually

Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 0 points 1 month ago

Baked potato salad is pretty good though.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I have never heard of that but I'm open to the experience.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago

It's just that many supposedly "fine dining" establishments phone it in with baked because they're easy and customers accept it.

[-] doughless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Funeral potatoes?

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago

Wanting to get drunk?

Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Cool science class demo about the power of compressed air? Potato gun.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 16 points 1 month ago

Need a battery?

Potato battery.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago
[-] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Joined thanks 😊

[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

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).

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

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 1 points 1 month ago

Yep hunger does some wild things to people

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 month ago

What's so fancy about a baked potato?

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

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 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Baked potatoes are what you get from a food truck.

Are people meaning roast potatoes?

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Apparently potatoes are a staple food in South America, ao OP isn't alone in this.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They’re a staple food in Germany, too

[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So much so that our immigrant population refers to Germans as "Kartoffeln" (potatoes)

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Need something to run Linux on? Potato

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago
[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Heh. This one's great.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Alcohol? Vodka! Starch to make bread? Potato starch! 2 potatoes? 1 potato in the ground!

[-] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Just remember all the nutrition is in the skin!

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Salt, too. Try having potatoes without salt. Blech!

[-] underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago
[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

This is stupid. It gets plenty of recognition. Everyone loves potatoes. Makes alcohol too.

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Rice: hold my sake

Hemp: hold your breath

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Boil, mash, stick em a stew!

I heard some grow in permafrost

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.

[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Irish famine. Edit: there is not a potato for every occasion.

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 month ago

Recreational even.

Wanna get wasted? Vodka Wanna just launch something as far as you can? Potato gun

[-] nonfuinoncuro@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

easy to smoke out of too

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