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The Humble Spud

  • 01-03-2019 2:12am
    #1
    Joe Don Dante
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭


    discuss...


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  • #2
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,983 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    ...it's a starchy subject


  • #3
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    There is nothing humble about it.


  • #4
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    it's massively over-rated


  • #5
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Greatest national non native food ever.


  • #6
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,102 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Spuds are our national staple.

    They form a pretty essential part of most Irish people’s diets, whether is be bolled spuds with bacon and cabbage, fish and chips, creamy potato gratin with marinaded chicken, potato wedges with pizza, fries with a Big Mac, crisps, sautéed potatoes with a big juicy steak, rösti, mash with bangers, colcannon, and on and on and on and on and on and on....

    Even vegans like spuds!:pac:


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  • #7
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    After they were first brought to Europe, for ages they were mainly popular due to their flowers, with the tubers been used to feed pigs and other animals. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier helped to popularise them as a food.


  • #8
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Spud. Knob of butter, can of tuna/or beans, plus microwave = epic lunch.


  • #9
    Johnnyhpipe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Johnnyhpipe


    There was no famine. Only genocide.


  • #10
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,983 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    you can't beat a tasty tuber, any way you cook it!


  • #11
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    An innocuous and inexpensive projectile.


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  • #12
    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Your Face wrote: »
    An innocuous and inexpensive projectile.

    Works well with a slingshot.


  • #13
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭Feisar


    The OP is a shill for a chipper of the same name as the thread title in Gorteen, Co. Sligo.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #14
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    You can't beat it plain and simple.

    Nothing worse than the abominations that are Gnocchi and Knödel, why would you massacre a good spud for that :eek:


  • #15
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Hate spuds, more if a rice man myself - cosmopolitan so I am.


  • #16
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Boiled? Good!
    Fried? Good!
    Mashed? Good!
    Vodka? Good!


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Eating very few spuds now because they sprout so quickly after buying them and shops like lidl and aldi only sell big bags of them.

    More inclined to go for a big of baby spuds but they can be ****ty, you have to discriminate.


  • #18
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Spud. Knob of butter, can of tuna/or beans, plus microwave = epic lunch.

    I couldn't eat an entire microwave.


  • #19
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,639 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Start chitting yer second earlies and get 'em in the ground within the next couple o'weeks.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Part boil them in seawater
    Roll em in olive oil and roast em

    Amazing


  • #21
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,719 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I presume every school had at least one lad nicknamed spud ?


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  • #22
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    _Brian wrote: »
    I presume every school had at least one lad nicknamed spud ?
    It was a common nickname for someone whose surname was Murphy.


  • #23
    Joe Don Dante
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Joe Don Dante


    snarf from Thundercats


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