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Potatoes, poppies, taters,

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  • #62
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,870 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    Spuds?
    Tatties?
    Pots?

    Who the hell wrote this poll?


  • #63
    THall04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭THall04


    I call them spuds........but about 10 years ago I was staying in a hotel in Whitley Bay (just outside Newcastle ,England) when 2 fellas from Clare came into the bar..............

    Lads from Clare: Hey boss any Taytos?

    Night Porter:Taters???.....I'am pullin' pints....no fu*kin Taters here!

    Lads from Clare: No we want a bag a' Tayto's ...like what ye have behind de bar (the lads are looking at a box of Walkers crisps...)

    Night Porter :THIS IS NOT A FU*K-ING GREEN-GROCERS....WE HAVE NO FU*KING TATERs!!

    Lads from Clare: But all we want is a bag of Tay..
    Night Porter: We 'ave no fu*kin carrots.....parsnups....turnups...cabbage...and NO-FU*KING TATERS!!...now fu*k off...ye barred!


  • #64
    kylith
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    Spuds, potatoes, or poppies.


  • #65
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The OP has to be American. "Taters" in the poll, but no "spuds"?

    Spuds or potatoes. I've never heard of "poppies" except of the flowering variety.


  • #66
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Starchy famine balls.


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  • #67
    _feedback_
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    Epic poll fail without spuds !


  • #68
    MazG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭MazG


    Spuds or potatoes


  • #69
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    I demand spuds in the voting options!


  • #70
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


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    Someone mentioned poppies to me tonight...never heard that before so Google'd it....and guess what showed up?!?? :)
    But seriously...wtf is a poppies...where did it originate from does anyone know?

    Zombie thread must stay alive so I can get answers!!


  • #71
    r93kaey5p2izun
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    Poppies
    Potatoes, occasionally spuds. Never heard them called poppies. I though taters was an American term - never heard it used here.


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  • #72
    Ken.
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    Mod-locked to annoy erik. I'll except bribes to reopen it.


  • #73
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    In rural east Clare I did hear some people calling them poppies when talking to their kids.


  • #74
    xabi
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    Purdies, pretties


  • #75
    Ken.
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    Screenshot_4.png

    Here's a screenshot of the poll results. I'm going to reset it.


  • #76
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,282 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Poppies
    I'd be between potatoes and spuds. If I'm eating new potatoes I'd generally say potatoes.


  • #77
    Noveight
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    *Shpuds. Mashed with lashings of butter and salt.


  • #78
    Junkyard Tom
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    Trippy musical introduction.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2St2rpxzbA


  • #79
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Poppies
    Your favourite DJ has returned!


  • #80
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    My father in law says "tates". I remember the first time i heard him saying it, i was thinking "wtf is he talking about!" :)


  • #81
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,926 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Poppies
    minidazzler wrote: »
    Also state if you have heard of them referred to as Poppies, just to prove she is uncultured! :D
    I've heard "poppy" for an indefinite quantity when talking to children, but not poppies as such.


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  • #82
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,728 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Spuds or potatoes here, but my grandmother use to always call them pops


  • #83
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Poppies
    THall04 wrote: »
    I call them spuds........but about 10 years ago I was staying in a hotel in Whitley Bay (just outside Newcastle ,England) when 2 fellas from Clare came into the bar..............

    Lads from Clare: Hey boss any Taytos?

    Night Porter:Taters???.....I'am pullin' pints....no fu*kin Taters here!

    Lads from Clare: No we want a bag a' Tayto's ...like what ye have behind de bar (the lads are looking at a box of Walkers crisps...)

    Night Porter :THIS IS NOT A FU*K-ING GREEN-GROCERS....WE HAVE NO FU*KING TATERs!!

    Lads from Clare: But all we want is a bag of Tay..
    Night Porter: We 'ave no fu*kin carrots.....parsnups....turnups...cabbage...and NO-FU*KING TATERS!!...now fu*k off...ye barred!

    Very good :)

    Reminds me of when my mother 1st visited London many moons/decades ago, went into a grocery shop and asked for a white pan!

    What's that Luv? "Can I have a white pan please"?
    Sorry luv but this is a grocery shop, we don't sell pans ...
    "No, I mean a white sliced pan"
    Honestly lady we don't sell pans white or or otherwise, no pots either ....
    The hardware shop is next door!

    She looked around and saw the confused & glaring stares she was getting from the scarf wearing ladies in the queue, so she left the shop, embarrassed, feeling like a fool, and kicking herself that she hadn't just asked for a loaf of white bread :)


  • #84
    Keisha07
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    Spuds, but my grandad used call them poppies when I was a child


  • #85
    jamesbere
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    White gold


  • #86
    Erik Shin
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    Anyone know why they were called poppies? ...were people high or something?


  • #87
    LadyMacBeth_
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    I wonder if ''poppies'' is a Cork/Munster thing? My ex boyfriend and his family called them poppies, not sure if I've heard anyone else say it though. Sometimes I call them poppies out of habit since I heard it so much when I was going out with him.

    Usually just call them potatoes though. A neighbour of mine asked me if I wanted to come over for spuds when I was a child and I had no idea what she was talking about, I was at least seven or eight, she must have thought I was a right weirdo. I don't know how some Irish colloquialisms seem to completely pass me by. You'd think I didn't grow up here. Maybe too much American TV (sorry, telly :P)


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