I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
Potatoes au gratin
Or dauphinois
The two preparations are quite similar aren't they?
Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.
Secondly, yes. They're very similar indeed.
Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually
Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better
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.
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.
Baked potato salad is pretty good though.
I have never heard of that but I'm open to the experience.
It's just that many supposedly "fine dining" establishments phone it in with baked because they're easy and customers accept it.
Funeral potatoes?
Wanting to get drunk?
Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice
Cool science class demo about the power of compressed air? Potato gun.
Need a battery?
Potato battery.
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).
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
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.
Baked potatoes are what you get from a food truck.
Are people meaning roast potatoes?
Apparently potatoes are a staple food in South America, ao OP isn't alone in this.
They’re a staple food in Germany, too
So much so that our immigrant population refers to Germans as "Kartoffeln" (potatoes)
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.
Need something to run Linux on? Potato
I run starch, btw.
Heh. This one's great.
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Alcohol? Vodka! Starch to make bread? Potato starch! 2 potatoes? 1 potato in the ground!
Just remember all the nutrition is in the skin!
I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here
Salt, too. Try having potatoes without salt. Blech!
This is stupid. It gets plenty of recognition. Everyone loves potatoes. Makes alcohol too.
Corn: hold my beer
Rice: hold my sake
Hemp: hold your breath
Boil, mash, stick em a stew!
I heard some grow in permafrost
Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.
Irish famine. Edit: there is not a potato for every occasion.
Recreational even.
Wanna get wasted? Vodka Wanna just launch something as far as you can? Potato gun
easy to smoke out of too
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