Do you like potatoes?

OMARS_COMING_ · 27-07-2012 05:26PM

I love them!

There are plenty of fields around my way that have potatoes growing in them,wild ones.

A once weekly trip with a bag really helps keeps the costs of the weekly shop down.

crazy cabbage · 27-07-2012 05:27PM

Mashed spuds are class

However 99% of people dont do them right. You have to have the perfect amound of milk, butter, salt and pepper in them (for plain spuds) otherwise they will not be nice.

My advice op is put more milk in. dont go eating all that foreign stuff

cometogether · 27-07-2012 05:27PM

Yeah, but not all the time. Its good to vary them with pasta or rice

Marcusm · 27-07-2012 05:29PM

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 ....

We all have our own starches and to prove a point, traditionally the Milanese would have rice rather than pasta!!!

Gummy Panda · 27-07-2012 05:33PM

Anyone who doesn't like potatoes needs to hand in their Irish passport

Chuck Stone · 27-07-2012 05:40PM

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

There are plenty of fields around my way that have potatoes growing in them,wild ones..

I love those wild potatoes. Hard to catch though the wily buggers.

Gbear · 27-07-2012 05:40PM

Boiled spuds are fairly ****e unless they're covered in something like Boeuf Bourguignon.

Roasters - Par boiled spuds
Put a roasting dish in the oven with the bottom covered in olive oil
When the spuds are par boiled, strain out water, put the lid on and shake the pot like a mad man to fluff up the skin.
Add a couple of cloves of garlic and some rosemary to the hot oil in the dish.
Add spuds. Shake around every once in a while.
****ing heaven.

Mash is kinda boring but fry a leek and some chopped up rashers and mix in - amazing.

kupus · 27-07-2012 06:27PM

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:

So what your saying is you've watched a couple of episodes of sex in the city and now you're a world traveler so none of those tatie thingys for you.
Fair Play To You. Ever try tater tots?

Sauve · 27-07-2012 06:34PM

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

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

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

I love them!

There are plenty of fields around my way that have potatoes growing in them,wild ones.

A once weekly trip with a bag really helps keeps the costs of the weekly shop down.

Are you saying you're too poor to even buy potatoes? :eek:

kr7 · 27-07-2012 06:35PM

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:

Your not doing it right!

trishasaffron · 27-07-2012 06:44PM

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.

.................

Yes! and saute

cocoshovel · 27-07-2012 06:49PM

kupus wrote: »

So what your saying is you've watched a couple of episodes of sex in the city and now you're a world traveler so none of those tatie thingys for you.
Fair Play To You. Ever try tater tots?

Nice assumption you've pulled out of your ass. :rolleyes:

MaxSteele · 27-07-2012 06:49PM

Burn the Imperial Conqueror :mad: !

donegal_man · 27-07-2012 07:00PM

Mashed potatoes with a bit of chopped scallions and a good lump of proper butter (no cream or milk). Food of the Gods man. *DROOL*

AllWasWell · 27-07-2012 07:25PM

ya can't bate a good spud

Chuck Stone · 27-07-2012 07:28PM

cocoshovel wrote: »

Nice assumption you've pulled out of your ass. :rolleyes:

That's such a Samantha thing to say!

biko · 27-07-2012 07:34PM

Potatoes are lovely but tbh I never really got the thing with getting a single roast potato with mash at carveries.
Hash brows and something I've found call "rösti" are the favourites.

Mysteriouschic · 27-07-2012 07:36PM

I love potatoes , mash , roast , baked not too fond of boiled though. I have potatoes most days. I prefer it to rice or pasta. Pasta would be my next favourite.

candy-gal1 · 27-07-2012 07:54PM

oh yes, creamed, mashed, waffled, chipped, baked or roasted, spudsies rawk!

Gummy Panda · 27-07-2012 08:06PM

Maris Piper mash is lovely

woodoo · 27-07-2012 08:13PM

You are no Irishman OP. You have to love the aul spud with all your heart to be a true Irishman.

Holsten · 27-07-2012 08:14PM

Love mash, love roast, love sauteed! Mmmmmm!

kfallon · 27-07-2012 08:24PM

Potato scallops mmmmmmm *salivates*

McChubbin · 27-07-2012 08:24PM

I fecking love spuds! Boiled, baked, fried... yummy.
Granted, not overly fond of mashed potato as my mam used to hid beans, peas and carrots in them when I was a toddler. Feckin' disgusting. I do like Colcannon, tho. Bacon and cabbage mashed into the potato with a big auld dollop of butter. Dinner of champions!

Ziegfeldgirl27 · 27-07-2012 08:26PM

I hate potatoes!!! All I can taste is soil, its pure rotten to me. The only potatoes I eat are the real skinny american chips. I can't even eat "chunky chips" or anything like that.

Chauncey · 27-07-2012 08:34PM

Ziegfeldgirl27 wrote: »

I hate potatoes!!! All I can taste is soil, its pure rotten to me.

You're supposed to take them out of the ground before you start eating them.

Ziegfeldgirl27 · 27-07-2012 08:35PM

Chauncey wrote: »

You're supposed to take them out of the ground before you start eating them.

Right, that must be it!:rolleyes:

Eve_Dublin · 27-07-2012 08:42PM

up for anything wrote: »

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

None.

Haha...

Luuuurve them...but rarely cook them...have to get into the spuds again. Fave combos would be: baked potato with all kinds of toppings, roast, mashed with milk and spring onion and floury spuds boiled with the skins on and butter.

Slomp!

Eve_Dublin · 27-07-2012 08:43PM

Ziegfeldgirl27 wrote: »

I hate potatoes!!! All I can taste is soil, its pure rotten to me. The only potatoes I eat are the real skinny american chips. I can't even eat "chunky chips" or anything like that.

You're a noody naudy eater, as my gram-gram would say.

mauzo · 27-07-2012 08:45PM

Love them.

Any way, mashed, boiled, chips, hash browns...

Yum

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