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    LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

    Potatoes deserve recognition

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    Potatoes deserve recognition

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    LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago
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    • Ready! Player 31@lemmy.worldM
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      I feel like we could have done better than ‘baked potato’ for a fancy dinner. Come on.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        Potatoes au gratin

        • Slovene@feddit.nl
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          Or dauphinois

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

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              Served on a naked Hasselhoff, right?

              Right?

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                Not so much these days.

          • Contentedness@lemmy.nz
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            The two preparations are quite similar aren’t they?

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              Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.

              Secondly, yes. They’re very similar indeed.

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                I love a good “how dare you be so accurate!”, well done! 😁

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                  The initial outrage followed by tenuous agreement was very potato.

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                “If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike”

            • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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              Basically the same thing, except au gratin has cheese or some sort of bechamel

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        Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually

        Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better

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          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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            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
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              Baked potato salad is pretty good though.

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

                • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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                  Cheese, bacon, chives and (sometimes) sour cream in your potato salad. I’m into it.

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            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

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        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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        Like a TWICE baked potato.

        • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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          Okay, let’s not go too far.

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          Loaded baked twice.

      • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
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        au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives

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          Well, hon hon hon.

          You guys ever tried the Cheese Bomb Tater Kegs they sell warm near the Walmart checkout?

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        I just assumed they meant “roast potatoes”.

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          I assumed they meant ‘baked potato’ because ‘baked potato’ is what they said.

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            Don’t go making wild assumptions like that without citing your sources

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              Source: read the post

              Losers online hate this one weird trick

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            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.

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              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.

              • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                Yeah some people just always want a baked potato with a steak.

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                  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.

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        Funeral potatoes?

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        Pommes fondantes!

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      Wanting to get drunk?

      Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice

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      Need something to run Linux on? Potato

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        I run starch, btw.

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          Heh. This one’s great.

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          👏

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          Fucki-, just, fucking fuck off.

          Upvoted, obvs. But still.

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          god damnit i hate how clever this is.

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        or a homicidal AI with an unhealthy obsession to neurotoxin

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      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.

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        Yep hunger does some wild things to people

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

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        Need a battery?

        Potato battery.

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

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        Found the Irishman.

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          archer irish dilema

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          More likely a Russian. Sounds like he’s making vodka.

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            So, more like Polish. Russia loves to try to steal the claim to vodka.

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            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.

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      Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.

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        Average evening at home? Vodka.

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          Average evening at home?

          That’s what I said.

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      Want to get more control over the Irish? Potato Famine.

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      I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here

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

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      Boil, mash, stick em a stew!

      I heard some grow in permafrost

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      baked potato is fancy? wow

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        I think if there are chives garnished on it then it looks fancy.

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          I mean baked potato is as fancy as the toppings you put on it yeah but after a while it stops being baked potato

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        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?

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          A big loaded potato is a pretty typical side for a nice steak and that definitely qualifies as fancy IMO.

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            Exactly!

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        yeah they should’ve gone with pommes fondant

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          nice TIL about these, will definitely try

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        Well hey we’re not all Thurston Howell III, only eating julienned potatoes cooked in virgin avocado oil.

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      Fancy breakfast?

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        Is that kimchi?

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          Looks like salsa. That’s a more common potato topping. Although I suppose that kimchee would be good, too. I’ve never tried it.

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      Recreational even.

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

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        easy to smoke out of too

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          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

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            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.

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      Saved that astronaut guy stranded on Mars.

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        Mark Watney probably never ate another potato after that though. I know I wouldn’t.

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