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[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

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

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

The two preparations are quite similar aren't they?

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

Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.

Secondly, yes. They're very similar indeed.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Or Hasselhoff. Yes, I know it’s “hasselback” but I refuse to change.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Served on a naked Hasselhoff, right?

Right?

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Not so much these days.

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

Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually

Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better

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

Funeral potatoes?

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

Wanting to get drunk?

Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice

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

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

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

Need a battery?

Potato battery.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[-] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Joined thanks 😊

[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week 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).

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

What's so fancy about a baked potato?

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week 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 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Baked potatoes are what you get from a food truck.

Are people meaning roast potatoes?

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 5 points 1 week 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.

Yep hunger does some wild things to people

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

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

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

They’re a staple food in Germany, too

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

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

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Just remember all the nutrition is in the skin!

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

Need something to run Linux on? Potato

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

Heh. This one's great.

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

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

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

I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here

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

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

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Rice: hold my sake

Hemp: hold your breath

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

Boil, mash, stick em a stew!

I heard some grow in permafrost

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

Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.

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

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

[-] underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago
[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 week 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 week ago

easy to smoke out of too

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Breakfast? Apple. Fast food? Apple. Fancy dinner? Apple. Holidays? Apple. Relaxing at home? Apple. There's Apple

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