Potatoes, poppies, taters,

minidazzler · 22-08-2010 5:07pm #1

What do you call Potatoes?

I someone will make the obvious answer or "potatoes" but this is to settle something with a friend who has never experienced any languages other than those in her native land. Which is really a garbled mix of Cant and english.

I refer to them as poppies every now and then, due to them being called that when I was young! What do you call them?

Also state if you have heard of them referred to as Poppies, just to prove she is uncultured!

Phil D · 22-08-2010 5:10pm

What about spuds? Not sure if I've heard them being called poppies.

storm2811 · 22-08-2010 5:10pm

Potatoes?You mean spuds?

alwaysadub · 22-08-2010 5:11pm

I call the potatoes funnily enough.
Oh yeah or spuds!

Never heard of them referred to as poppies.

And the only way i've heard of them as taters is the American thing of tater tots(which i'm not exactly sure what they are but know they are potato based!)

Mr Benevolent · 22-08-2010 5:12pm

Poppies are a drug. Potatoes are our staple food (in Leitrim I imagine). Actually potato flowers are similar to nightshade, and just as deadly.

bonzodog2 · 22-08-2010 5:12pm

Did you not hear of spuds OP ?

Gummy Panda · 22-08-2010 5:13pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMMw0rnKz4

El Weirdo · 22-08-2010 5:13pm

Spuds.

Cavehill Red · 22-08-2010 5:13pm

Poppies: http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/96A98ED5-D12E-4551-96E9-194C842E69E4/0/poppies.jpg

Potatoes: http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes/images/i-potatoes-wh.jpg

SadieSue · 22-08-2010 5:14pm

Tater tots are like potato croquets, breaded mashed potato.

I just say potatoes or spuds. Haven't had them in ages though.

starbelgrade · 22-08-2010 5:15pm

Chips.

MickShamrock · 22-08-2010 5:15pm

Just plain old potatoes for me. Also, have never heard of them referred to as poppies ever.

El Weirdo · 22-08-2010 5:15pm

What about praties?

strokemyclover · 22-08-2010 5:16pm

This thread topic is too controversial for me! No comment!

*Juggles hot potatoe and throws at the next poster*

Doyler92 · 22-08-2010 5:17pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Chips.

Wedges.

natsuko · 22-08-2010 5:17pm

my grandmother called them poppies so thats what i ended up calling them for years, all the other kids i knew never heard of the word! Just call them potatoes now.

ascanbe · 22-08-2010 5:17pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTWQiTlhKQ

rainbowdrop · 22-08-2010 5:18pm

Schpuds*

*I'm a culchie

azezil · 22-08-2010 5:18pm

When I was very young, single digits, I used to call them poppies but haven't heard them called that in yeeears. Potatoes it is for me.

girlyhappyface · 22-08-2010 5:20pm

I call them "bah- day- as" in my lovely Dublin accent.

They're called tatties in Scotland!

El Weirdo · 22-08-2010 5:20pm

Ok, before this thread goes any further:

potato = singular

potatoes = plural

PeterIanStaker · 22-08-2010 5:23pm

Shpuds!

starbelgrade · 22-08-2010 5:24pm

El Weirdo wrote: »

Ok, before this thread goes any further:

potato = singular

potatoes = plural

Did you learn that for the Leaving Cert?

Risteard · 22-08-2010 5:25pm

I used to call them poppies when I was younger, not anymore though.

El Weirdo · 22-08-2010 5:26pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Did you learn that for the Leaving Cert?

Many people obviously didn't.

Biggins · 22-08-2010 5:27pm

Potatoes or "spuds"

Squidgy Black · 22-08-2010 5:28pm

girlyhappyface wrote: »

They're called tatties in Scotland!

hehe tatties:rolleyes:

cleremy jarkson · 22-08-2010 5:37pm

Could a mod put "spuds" in the poll?
Every single person I know who isn't posh calls them spuds.

Mint Sauce · 22-08-2010 5:42pm

taytos

Webmonkey · 22-08-2010 5:44pm

We had a poppie house that was dark with no windows for the spuds so they wouldn't start sprouting. The memories, the bad ones of having to bend over in a field for the day routing for spuds.

OptimashPrime · 22-08-2010 5:46pm

Webmonkey wrote: »

We had a poppie house that was dark with no windows for the spuds so they wouldn't start sprouting

so did my grandfather ! that brings back memories. it was a long dark shed and i remember being sent out with a pot to pick out some spuds for dinner, ahh happy days

Agricola · 22-08-2010 5:53pm

"Staple diet"

OutlawPete · 22-08-2010 5:53pm

Couch Potato, Potatoe .. lets call the whole thing off.

El Weirdo · 22-08-2010 6:01pm

"At the end of the day, you will pay the price for being a fussy eater. If they could afford to emigrate, they could afford to eat at a modest restaurant."

Gummy Panda · 22-08-2010 6:03pm

I remember when I was a kid, I had a friend who's mother called potatoes "bit-date-do's"

AssaultedPeanut · 22-08-2010 6:27pm

My dad always calls them poppies so I often do too, that or just potatoes.

johnmcdnl · 22-08-2010 6:30pm

how the ****ing hell didn't you put spuds down - i'm sorry but like seriously - how could you forget spuds - like in all fairness - just makes this poll look so stupid without it

Minstrel27 · 22-08-2010 6:30pm

minidazzler wrote: »

What do you call Potatoes?

Spuds.

Webmonkey · 22-08-2010 6:31pm

Did anyone have something called Pandy or was that just in my home

22-08-2010 6:33pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Did you learn that for the Leaving Cert?

I'm always amazed at the number of people who apparently didn't learn the singular form of "women"...

Anyway OP, potatoes or spuds. Poppies are a flower...