Happy National Potato Day!

efb

Chip 'em, boil 'em, mash 'em, roast 'em, fry 'em... no matter how you eat them Happy National Potato Day!

efb

http://www.potato.ie/national-potato-day/

humbert

I suppose if we now have two national getting ****-faced on Guinness days it's only proper to have a national eating spuds for dinner day.

Chucken

humbert wrote: »

I suppose if we now have two national getting ****-faced on Guinness days it's only proper to have a national eating spuds for dinner day.

What else would you eat?

efb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3UGI1jMP8

Never mind your arty guinness ads, one of the best ads ever!

policarp

Golden Wonderful. . .

its me_330

efb wrote: »

Chip 'em, boil 'em, mash 'em, roast 'em, fry 'em... no matter how you eat them Happy National Potato Day!

Luv them. I couldn't live without the good olde spud:D

MadsL

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here.

Idaho Russets and Yukon Golds are amazing for flavour and fluffy yummy spud goodness.

Sorry, but Irish potatoes are not that great.

The range in the US runs through the likes of;
Klondike Gold, Milva, Yellow Fin and Yukon Gold, Russet Burbank, Russian banana potato, California Red, Huckleberry, La Soda, Klondike Rose and Red Norland.

All these could be grown in Ireland, but growers seem reluctant to offer anything beyond your basic Red and Yellow.

Slunk

Sure the best potatoes in Ireland are they Cyprus potatoes. Although Sam spud is coming upvin the world

Son Of A Vidic

MadsL wrote: »

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here.

Infidel!!!

MadsL

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Infidel!!!

I know, quite the heresy.

Ask anyone who has eaten a plate of Yukon God mash though. Dear god, they are good spuds.

Lapin

Today is the only day that Irish people celebrate British Queens !

Lapin

MadsL wrote: »

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here.

Blah blah blah

Uncle Sam has better spuds

America is fab.


All these could be grown in Ireland, but growers seem reluctant to offer anything beyond your basic Red and Yellow.

Tomorrow is national firing squad day here.

ColeTrain

Fack the potatoes

Pasta Loyal

policarp

ColeTrain wrote: »

Fack the potatoes

Pasta Loyal

Are you trying to put a blight on our national potato day?
Pasta salt and the butta please. . .

efb

MadsL wrote: »

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here.

Idaho Russets and Yukon Golds are amazing for flavour and fluffy yummy spud goodness.

Sorry, but Irish potatoes are not that great.

The range in the US runs through the likes of;
Klondike Gold, Milva, Yellow Fin and Yukon Gold, Russet Burbank, Russian banana potato, California Red, Huckleberry, La Soda, Klondike Rose and Red Norland.

All these could be grown in Ireland, but growers seem reluctant to offer anything beyond your basic Red and Yellow.

Sure isnt that where Sir Walter Raleigh found them!

gg2

MadsL wrote: »

The range in the US runs through the likes of;
Klondike Gold, Milva, Yellow Fin and Yukon Gold, Russet Burbank, Russian banana potato, California Red, Huckleberry, La Soda, Klondike Rose and Red Norland.

No Dublin queens? WTF?

You can't bate the spud. Big balls o' flower mmmm

Lapin

ColeTrain wrote: »

Fack the potatoes

Pasta Loyal

Think about this the next time you buy a vacuum pak of shell shaped pieces of plastic from a factory belonging to Messrs Ragu and Dolmio produced in one of their mass assembly plants somewhere thousands of miles away from Italy.

Then tell me that it tastes better than a spud grown in my back garden and cooked (skins and all) before being devoured in a tsunami of real butter !

Challenge on

ColeTrain

Lapin wrote: »

Think about this the next time you buy a vacuum pak of shell shaped pieces of plastic from a factory belonging to Messrs Ragu and Dolmio produced in one of their mass assembly plants somewhere thousands of miles away from Italy.

Then tell me that it tastes better than a spud grown in my back garden and cooked (skins and all) before being devoured in a tsunami of real butter !

Challenge on

Pasta is not exclusive to Dolmio and the Mars corporation. There is fresh pasta you know!

rustedtrumpet

Day off!

Lapin

ColeTrain wrote: »

Pasta is not exclusive to Dolmio and the Mars corporation. There is fresh pasta you know!

Not in my back garden there ain't.

Nor yours either I'll bet.


Are you on for a challenge?

You take a piece of durhum wheat out of your garden and I'll take a spud out of mine and we'll see who starves first.

April O Neill

MadsL wrote: »

All these could be grown in Ireland, but growers seem reluctant to offer anything beyond your basic Red and Yellow.

There are more than two types of potato in Ireland.

Different climates are of course going to make a difference. Only the Pacific Northwest shares Ireland's climate type. It's not that shocking, seriously.

ColeTrain

Lapin wrote: »

Not in my back garden there ain't.

Nor yours either I'll bet.


Are you on for a challenge?

You take a piece of durhum wheat out of your garden and I'll take a spud out of mine and we'll see who starves first.

Yeah I'll take that challenge man.

Step one is underway

My hat is also better than any of your hats

Karl Stein

Man hear knockings on door one night.
Man say "Who is?"
"I potato man, I come to give free potato"
Man is very excite - he opens door.
Is not potato man, is secret police to take man Siberia.

Lapin

ColeTrain wrote: »

Yeah I'll take that challenge man.


My hat is also better than any of your hats

Hat ???

Ha !!!

We spud merchants don't do hats son !

http://thumb9.shutterstock.com/thumb_large/57142/57142,1235603661,2/stock-vector-cartoon-happy-potato-holding-a-pack-of-french-fries-25635052.jpg

And........... And, you will notice that I have the spuds chopped, fried and cooked already

Seaneh

MadsL wrote: »

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here.

Idaho Russets and Yukon Golds are amazing for flavour and fluffy yummy spud goodness.

Sorry, but Irish potatoes are not that great.

The range in the US runs through the likes of;
Klondike Gold, Milva, Yellow Fin and Yukon Gold, Russet Burbank, Russian banana potato, California Red, Huckleberry, La Soda, Klondike Rose and Red Norland.

All these could be grown in Ireland, but growers seem reluctant to offer anything beyond your basic Red and Yellow.

You just don't know where to buy potatoes in Ireland apparently.

They potatoes we grow here are infinitely superior and we grow far more varieties. Ours also aren't genetically modified to the stage where they don't even seed and you have to buy special potatoes to grow your own, I buy a bag of spuds and want to grow my own I just keep a few back, let them seed and then plant them, I have spuds next year.
In the states, I want to grow spuds I have to go to a gardening centre and hope they have seed potatoes in stock.

There are far more than just "red or white".

Kerr Pink, Irish Whites, Golden Wonder, Maris Piper, Record, Queens, Rooster, Cultra, Karlena, Home Guard, Cara, Beauties, Black Champions, Lumpers and so on. Not to mention the more exotic salad potatoe varities.

The spuds in the US are grand, but we just grow better stuff here, in general, and that goes from spuds to cows.


p.s.

And American mash tastes weird because their butter is ****e and their milk isn't fit to give to fecking cats.

Seaneh

efb wrote: »

Sure isnt that where Sir Walter Raleigh found them!

Well, a bit further south.

Peru is the home of the spud (well, the Andean region in general).
And Avacado's and Tomatoes as well.

Karl Stein

MadsL wrote: »

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here ... Sorry, but Irish potatoes are not that great.

Seaneh wrote: »

You just don't know where to buy potatoes in Ireland apparently ... American mash tastes weird because their butter is ****e and their milk isn't fit to give to fecking cats.

( •_•)

You keep singing the praises of American potatoes... but it seems to me...

( •_•)>⌐■-■

.... you've been playing a bum note on the tuber.

(⌐■_■)

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh

Chucken

MadsL wrote: »

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here.

Well thats great. You enjoy them spuds......We'll enjoy ours right here in Ireland.

Ihatecuddles-old

Spuds in The US are amazing. Really really good.

I f*cking love potatoes.

Seaneh

Actually, I take that back, some states in the US have good dairy. Northern California and Wisconsin I found to be ok, most of the rest was crap. If you buy local stuff it's better too but almost everyone uses Land of Lakes butter (it's horrendous) and just buys brand x milk from walmart/kmart/publix/regionalmegamart and it's vile.

Ihatecuddles-old

Seaneh wrote: »

Actually, I take that back, some states in the US have good dairy. Northern California and Wisconsin I found to be ok, most of the rest was crap. If you buy local stuff it's better too but almost everyone uses Land of Lakes butter (it's horrendous) and just buys brand x milk from walmart/kmart/publix/regionalmegamart and it's vile.

I bring butter with me. Can't beat it!

Timmyctc

Seaneh

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I bring butter with me. Can't beat it!

Irish butter is just sooooooooo much better.
And so is our milk.
I had a friend from north cali saying with me recently and made her drink a glass of full fat irish milk, she was stunned by the difference in both taste and mouth feel. She never drinks milk back home but was drinking it most days in ireland.

That said, there are some good cheese makers in the us. They tend to have their own grass fed herds and don't pump their animals full of ****e.

MadsL

Lapin wrote: »

Tomorrow is national firing squad day here.

Do they use spud guns?

Seaneh wrote: »

You just don't know where to buy potatoes in Ireland apparently.

Kerr Pink, Irish Whites, Golden Wonder, Maris Piper, Record, Queens, Rooster, Cultra, Karlena, Home Guard, Cara, Beauties, Black Champions, Lumpers and so on. Not to mention the more exotic salad potatoe varities.

The spuds in the US are grand, but we just grow better stuff here, in general, and that goes from spuds to cows.

Irish beef is the best in the world without a doubt, Irish beer not so much.
As for the spuds I have only ever found the bolded spuds. Maybe it is a Dublin thing. I do remember the fake Queens

And American mash tastes weird because their butter is ****e and their milk isn't fit to give to fecking cats.

That's why I use cream

Seaneh wrote: »

Actually, I take that back, some states in the US have good dairy. Northern California and Wisconsin I found to be ok, most of the rest was crap. If you buy local stuff it's better too but almost everyone uses Land of Lakes butter (it's horrendous) and just buys brand x milk from walmart/kmart/publix/regionalmegamart and it's vile.

I can get Kerrygold here (Yay)

Seaneh wrote: »

Irish butter is just sooooooooo much better.
And so is our milk.
I had a friend from north cali saying with me recently and made her drink a glass of full fat irish milk, she was stunned by the difference in both taste and mouth feel. She never drinks milk back home but was drinking it most days in ireland.

That said, there are some good cheese makers in the us. They tend to have their own grass fed herds and don't pump their animals full of ****e.

Yep, although New Mexico has some good dairy, why I never figured out.

Leftist

I thought this was on March 17th?

BeerWolf

I'm on a low carb high protein based diet - this day is evil !!!

Plazaman

efb wrote: »

Chip 'em, boil 'em, mash 'em, roast 'em, fry 'em... no matter how you eat them Happy National Potato Day!

Anyone else read this in Bubbas voice from Forrest Gump?

Side of the road wexford new potatoes in their skins with a load of kerrygold and a bit of salt.

That cannot be bate.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

To celebrate Potato Day, we should try to canvas the government to hold a referendum to vote on whether we should insert a line about how lovely potatoes are into the national anthem.

IvySlayer

They're NEW potatoes yaknow

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

To celebrate Potato Day, we should try to canvas the government to hold a referendum to vote on whether we should insert a line about how lovely potatoes are into the national anthem.

It's already there it's just most people don't know the words or have a bleedin clue what any of it means.

BeerWolf

Plazaman wrote: »

Anyone else read this in Bubbas voice from Forrest Gump?

I more so read it in Samwise's voice when he was explaining potatos for cooking to Gollum, in Lord of the Rings ["Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Throw 'em in a stew"]... :pac:

petes

MadsL wrote: »

Hate to break it to you, but since I moved to the US the spuds are WAY better here.

Idaho Russets and Yukon Golds are amazing for flavour and fluffy yummy spud goodness.

Sorry, but Irish potatoes are not that great.

The range in the US runs through the likes of;
Klondike Gold, Milva, Yellow Fin and Yukon Gold, Russet Burbank, Russian banana potato, California Red, Huckleberry, La Soda, Klondike Rose and Red Norland.

All these could be grown in Ireland, but growers seem reluctant to offer anything beyond your basic Red and Yellow.

The spuds from my Daddy's garden beat any of them that you have eaten!!

MadsL

petes wrote: »

The spuds from my Daddy's garden beat any of them that you have eaten!!

PM me the address, I'm over in January. Cheers for the invite.

The Backwards Man

My spuds are nicer than everyone else's.

MadsL

The Backwards Man wrote: »

My spuds are nicer than everyone else's.

Do they bring all the boys to the yard?

Vinz Mesrine

Ah i was wondering why Dunnes were selling 7.5kg bags for €3.99 today, a bargain.

The Backwards Man

MadsL wrote: »

Do they bring all the boys to the yard?

No. They taste good.

April O Neill

Seaneh wrote: »

Actually, I take that back, some states in the US have good dairy. Northern California and Wisconsin I found to be ok, most of the rest was crap. If you buy local stuff it's better too but almost everyone uses Land of Lakes butter (it's horrendous) and just buys brand x milk from walmart/kmart/publix/regionalmegamart and it's vile.

In bigger countries, hell, even in the UK, you'll find pockets of quality for various foodstuffs. Ireland is so small that you'll find quality products anywhere you go! \o/

April O Neill

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I bring butter with me. Can't beat it!

Yeah, most Irishy things people buy abroad I wouldn't be arsed with, but imported Irish butter is something I would happily pay a premium for.