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Do you like potatoes?

  • 27-07-2012 03:26PM
    #1
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭


    Living in Ireland, potatoes are one of the most popular foods that people eat for dinner alongside that plain bit of dry meat. We're globally known for potatoes!

    I have to say that I absolutely hate them, and the typical Irish dinner. I find them to be boring, taste like nothingness, smell dull, and are hard to swallow. Coming home to a typical Irish dinner only disappoints me to walk in the front door and get that damp dull smell of wet starch.
    The only way I can somewhat enjoy them is if they're mashed, and even then I have to eat them with ketchup to give them some sort of nice flavour.

    Its not just the potatoes I dislike, its the whole plain dinner. Roast Chicken, Bacon, Beef etc. Yuck!
    Give me pasta & spaghetti based dishes, rice dishes like curries, fajita's, lasagne both meat and vegetable!, stir fries and so much more. Something with a bit of flavour and lovely smell that you can actually enjoy.

    So AH, do you actually like potatoes? Can you stomach them more than once a week? Are you one of those sick freaks who has them every day of the week!? :eek:


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Comments

  • #2
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Jaysus I love me spud dinner. I'm oirish to the bone!!


  • #3
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    Roast Chicken, Bacon, Beef are NOT boring/plain. You should be ahsamed of yourself!


  • #4
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Go on the spuds, can't bate them boy :D


  • #5
    zetecs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭zetecs


    roast potatoes are the job:D


  • #6
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i love a bit of potato gratin myself


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  • #7
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Living in Ireland, potatoes are one of the most popular foods that people eat for dinner alongside that plain bit of dry meat. We're globally known for potatoes!

    I have to say that I absolutely hate them, and the typical Irish dinner. I find them to be boring, taste like nothingness, smell dull, and are hard to swallow. Coming home to a typical Irish dinner only disappoints me to walk in the front door and get that damp dull smell of wet starch.
    The only way I can somewhat enjoy them is if they're mashed, and even then I have to eat them with ketchup to give them some sort of nice flavour.

    Its not just the potatoes I dislike, its the whole plain dinner. Roast Chicken, Bacon, Beef etc. Yuck!
    Give me pasta & spaghetti based dishes, rice dishes like curries, fajita's, lasagne both meat and vegetable!, stir fries and so much more. Something with a bit of flavour and lovely smell that you can actually enjoy.

    So AH, do you actually like potatoes? Can you stomach them more than once a week? Are you one of those sick freaks who has them every day of the week!? :eek:

    You're cooking them wrong. There's so many possibilities for cooking them and you don't have to go all fancy. I love some fried potatoes with bits of bacon and onion mixed in, or some nice mash with milk and spring onions.


  • #8
    Viper_JB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Viper_JB


    Plain dinners :eek: seasoning is key!


  • #9
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Without potatoes we wouldn't have King Tayto (which are the nicest kind of Tayto!)


  • #10
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    I count to them


  • #11
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Coincidentally, I just heard this joke today although it's probably an ancient one.

    How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irish man?

    None.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew...

    PO-TAT-OES


  • #13
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    I like potatoes.
    I have to eat them with ketchup to give them some sort of nice flavour.

    Iconoclast. Burn the unbeliever!


  • #14
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Dónal wrote: »
    Boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew...

    PO-TAT-OES


    stupid hobbit


  • #15
    Cina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Cina


    I like them, but I don't cook them.

    I'll be damned if I have to waste a half hour skinning spuds when I can stick some pasta/rice on and do bad things to myself in the meantime


  • #16
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    What are these potatoes you speak of.

    We have spuds, purdies, poundies, tatties but I've never eaten potato.


  • #17
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    Potatoes rule, even in humble boiled form. Birra salt. Birra butter. Gold.
    Confab wrote: »
    Iconoclast.

    Eh?


  • #18
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Where To wrote: »
    purdies, poundies, tatties


    wut?


  • #19
    I_smell_fear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭I_smell_fear


    I abso-fúcking-definitely love every kind of potatoes! They make me emotional


  • #20
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    I get the boring bit, that's why you don't have them everyday. But jebus there has to be something wrong with you to not crave pandy and gravy, or roasted baby spuds and gravy. Actually anything and gravy really :)


  • #21
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Diapason wrote: »
    Eh?

    Iconoclast
    Actually anything and gravy really

    Not a big fan of gravy. Good if food is very dry, otherwise a bit shite.


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  • #22
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    They have to be fried to the bejasus for me to like them, or roasted to fúck. Treated with vulgarity in any case.


  • #23
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    Floury new potatoes with a big knob of real butter and a sprinkle of sea salt (optional).

    If Jesus had grown up an Irishman that would have been his manna right there.


  • #24
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    Confab wrote: »
    Iconclast

    Egg on my face.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nahin like some potatoes.
    Love em.


  • #26
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Roast/fried yes. A childhood of flavourless boiled lumps or mashed with lumps in them has not endeared me to the humble spud. I still eat them so they can't be bad really.


  • #27
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    g'em wrote: »
    Floury new potatoes with a big knob of real butter and a sprinkle of sea salt (optional).

    If Jesus had grown up an Irishman that would have been his manna right there.

    The worst type of potato. Butter doesnt make them any nicer. You're all sick in the head!


  • #28
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    FINALLY !! Someone else who eats ketchup with potatoes . For years I've been told I'm a freak and getting the oddest of looks for my potato eating habits. =D


  • #29
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    How very dare you. :mad:

    The potato is the greatest, most versatile* vegetable on the planet. If we were ever to colonise other planets potatoes would be the first vegetable planted in alien soil.

    *Chips
    Mash
    Boiled potatoes
    Croquettes
    Potato waffles
    Crisps
    Roast spuds
    wedges
    Potato gratin
    Potato salad
    Baked potato
    Gnocchi
    Potato flour (dumpling, potato breads etc)
    Potato rosti
    Hash browns
    Instant potato
    Fried potato (from boiled leftovers)
    Vodka
    Poitin

    The Potato is the greatest vegetable in the known universe. No doubt.


  • #30
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    The worst type of potato. Butter doesnt make them any nicer. You're all sick in the head!

    Butter makes everything better, everyone knows that!


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  • #31
    sob1467
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭sob1467


    Have them everyday without exception.


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