Do you like potatoes?

cocoshovel

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:

TheBody

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

UnknownSpecies

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

kfallon

Go on the spuds, can't bate them boy

zetecs

roast potatoes are the job:D

FatherLen

i love a bit of potato gratin myself

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.

Viper_JB

Plain dinners :eek: seasoning is key!

AnonoBoy

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

Shane-KornSpace

I count to them

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.

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

PO-TAT-OES

Mr Benevolent

I like potatoes.

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

Iconoclast. Burn the unbeliever!

FatherLen

Dónal wrote: »

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

PO-TAT-OES

stupid hobbit

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

Where To

What are these potatoes you speak of.

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

Diapason

Potatoes rule, even in humble boiled form. Birra salt. Birra butter. Gold.

Confab wrote: »

Iconoclast.

Eh?

FatherLen

Where To wrote: »

purdies, poundies, tatties

wut?

I_smell_fear

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

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

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.

mitosis

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

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.

Diapason

Confab wrote: »

Iconclast

Egg on my face.

Nahin like some potatoes.
Love em.

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.

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!

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

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.

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!

sob1467

Have them everyday without exception.

mitosis

g'em wrote: »

Butter makes everything better, everyone knows that!

That reminds me. Friday night = alternative sex night

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.

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?

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...

Pherekydes

Nothing like the smell of burnt potatoes. :pac:

Mr Benevolent

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.

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

kelle

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

CruelCoin

Mouthfull of tasteless powdery starch. Hideous.

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

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.

juan.kerr

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

OMARS_COMING_

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

juan.kerr

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

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

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.

juan.kerr

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

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

Muppet

FortuneChip

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.