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Do you like potatoes?

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  • #32
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    g'em wrote: »
    Butter makes everything better, everyone knows that!

    That reminds me. Friday night = alternative sex night ;)


  • #33
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    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.

    Dont get me wrong, chips, wedges, has browns etc are lovely! But plain potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, and dare I even say Taytos! Are mank. Pure slurry shíte blasted onto your dinner plate.


  • #34
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


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

    King tayto? WTF is that? Do you mean King crisps? Or Mr Tayto? :confused::confused:


  • #35
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Dont get me wrong, chips, wedges, has browns etc are lovely! But plain potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, and dare I even say Taytos! Are mank. Pure slurry shíte blasted onto your dinner plate.

    Pffff...


  • #36
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Nothing like the smell of burnt potatoes. :pac:


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  • #37
    Mr Benevolent
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    aaabbbb wrote: »
    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

    Make no mistake, you ARE a freak for eating potatoes with ketchup.


  • #38
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Confab wrote: »
    Make no mistake, you ARE a freak for eating potatoes with ketchup.

    Ah here it is...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeo2yRRKY9Q


  • #39
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I can't eat them, they play havoc with my stomach.


  • #40
    CruelCoin
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    Mouthfull of tasteless powdery starch. Hideous.

    Mind you, they're ok if server with some cheese/sauce/etc. Anything that lends them flavour.


  • #41
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Can't stand them,have brown rice or pasta with my meals instead.Hate having dinner in relatives homes down the country because at every dinner,without fail,they produce what can only be described as a giant vase of unpeeled boiled spuds,and they give you an odd look if you don't eat at least 3 massive ones with your burnt chops,over boiled veg and lumpy bisto gravy.


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  • #42
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Don't think I could go 2 days without some form of spuds.


  • #43
    OMARS_COMING_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭OMARS_COMING_


    Potatoes are for poor people who cannot afford to eat proper food.


  • #44
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    King tayto? WTF is that? Do you mean King crisps? Or Mr Tayto? :confused::confused:

    I think he's using 'tayto' in the generic form to mean crisps.

    Ironically King was owned by Tayto back even when they were the only crisps in Ireland. Both are now part of the Largo Foods family along with Hunky Dory.


  • #45
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »
    Potatoes are for poor people who cannot afford to eat proper food.

    Muppet


  • #46
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    Don't really enjoy mashed potatoes, but roasted, sautéed, rosti'd, chips... All good!


  • #47
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Ironically King was owned by Tayto back even when they were the only crisps in Ireland.

    A part of me died the day I learned that.


  • #48
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    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.
    Haters gonna hate but potatoes gonna potate!


  • #49
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    LOVE potatoes.

    Hate pasta though, and TBH, this draws as many shocked reactions as saying you hate spuds!
    cocoshovel wrote: »
    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.

    All carbs are bland though. Apart from bread.


  • #50
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    I pretty much only eat sweet potato's. Healthy, just as versatile as regular ones (well they're still spuds!) and they taste much better imo!


  • #51
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


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

    For this, waxy all the way for me.

    Floury are great for mash, roasters and chips though.

    Waxy for baked.


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  • #52
    Sea Filly
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    mitosis wrote: »
    That reminds me. Friday night = alternative sex night ;)

    Someone's been delving into Marlon Brando's back catalogue. ;)

    That sounds suspect. :(


  • #53
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Mind you, they're ok if server with some cheese/sauce/etc. Anything that lends them flavour.

    That's generally how complex carbs work.


  • #54
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    juan.kerr wrote: »
    I think he's using 'tayto' in the generic form to mean crisps.

    Ironically King was owned by Tayto back even when they were the only crisps in Ireland. Both are now part of the Largo Foods family along with Hunky Dory.

    OMG! :eek:


  • #55
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    starviewadams wrote: »
    Can't stand them,have brown rice or pasta with my meals instead.Hate having dinner in relatives homes down the country because at every dinner,without fail,they produce what can only be described as a giant vase of unpeeled boiled spuds,and they give you an odd look if you don't eat at least 3 massive ones with your burnt chops,over boiled veg and lumpy bisto gravy.

    You must be a delightful guest. ;)


  • #56
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    Bad Panda wrote: »
    I pretty much only eat sweet potato's. Healthy, just as versatile as regular ones (well they're still spuds!) and they taste much better imo!

    I disagree about the taste. Sweet potatoes are too, well, sweet. Not keen on their texture either. More carrotty than potatoey. Overall, an overrated veg.


  • #57
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Sea Filly wrote: »
    I disagree about the taste. Sweet potatoes are too, well, sweet. Not keen on their texture either. More carrotty than potatoey. Overall, an overrated veg.

    And they aren't even a potatoe!

    Love the spuds....nice boiled spud with still a bit of bite in it, some butter and salt...heaven.


  • #58
    Scarinae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    I’m not too keen on potatoes. When I was around seven, I was at a friend’s house for dinner and her mother made me finish my plate of shepherd’s pie even though I said I was full. I got sick and never felt the same about potato after that. I don’t know how people can eat a big plate of mashed potato or a baked potato, ugh.


  • #59
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Love potatoes.:)
    Hate turmits.:mad:


  • #60
    byronbay2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    I hate to say it OP but you are obviously filled with self-hatred and need to see a psychiatrist to try and work through your issues. Potato hatred is just the outward manifestation of your internal turmoil at the fact that you were born (in your mind) a low-bred Irish dog and you desperately yearn to be a sophisticated, sunglasses-wearing Eyetalian who eats spaghetti and crosses their legs when they sit. I'm guessing you are also an F1 rather than GAA person.
    Believe it or not, there are people in Milan at this very moment saying how sick they are of the tasteless muck (penne, fusili etc) Mamma slops up on their plate every night. How they would love a delicious Kerr's Pink with a knob of Kerrygold gently oozing down the sides etc.
    You think your OP is showing boardsies how cosmopolitan you are but is, in reality, a cry for help. Take the first step now OP, we're all right behind you ....


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  • #61
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    byronbay2 wrote: »
    I hate to say it OP but you are obviously filled with self-hatred and need to see a psychiatrist to try and work through your issues. Potato hatred is just the outward manifestation of your internal turmoil at the fact that you were born (in your mind) a low-bred Irish dog and you desperately yearn to be a sophisticated, sunglasses-wearing Eyetalian who eats spaghetti and crosses their legs when they sit. I'm guessing you are also an F1 rather than GAA person.
    Believe it or not, there are people in Milan at this very moment saying how sick they are of the tasteless muck (penne, fusili etc) Mamma slops up on their plate every night. How they would love a delicious Kerr's Pink with a knob of Kerrygold gently oozing down the sides etc.
    You think your OP is showing boardsies how cosmopolitan you are but is, in reality, a cry for help. Take the first step now OP, we're all right behind you ....

    Oh ok. Good thing I like being filled with self hatred and internal turmoil then!


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