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Potatoes deserve recognition

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Irish famine. Edit: there is not a potato for every occasion.

Corn: hold my beer
- Rice: hold my sake
  Hemp: hold your breath

Potatoes get plenty of recognition and always have.

A nice, cold, peeled potato with salt and pepper on it is a suprisingly refreshing snack
- hell yes i love cold potato

I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
- Pommes fondantes!
- Potatoes au gratin
  
  Or dauphinois
- Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually
  Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better
  
  baked potato is just a solid lunch choice
  Unpopular opinion: not even that, really. The baked potato is by far the most overrated potato.
  It's not very good by the standards of food in general. Which of course makes it quite bad by the lofty standards of potatoes.
- It's just that many supposedly "fine dining" establishments phone it in with baked because they're easy and customers accept it.
- Like a TWICE baked potato.
  
  Okay, let's not go too far.
  
  Loaded baked twice.
- au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives
  
  Well, hon hon hon.
  You guys ever tried the Cheese Bomb Tater Kegs they sell warm near the Walmart checkout?
- I just assumed they meant "roast potatoes".
  
  I assumed they meant 'baked potato' because 'baked potato' is what they said.
- Funeral potatoes?

Wanting to get drunk?
Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice

Need something to run Linux on? Potato
- I run starch, btw.
  
  Fucki-, just, fucking fuck off.
  Upvoted, obvs. But still.
  
  god damnit i hate how clever this is.
  
  Heh. This one's great.
  
  👏
- or a homicidal AI with an unhealthy obsession to neurotoxin

God bless the people of the Andean Plateau, who looked at a moderately poisonous tuber that can freaking kill you, and said, "Eh, it's fine, just don't eat too many of 'em."
A few thousand years of selective breeding and hard work later, we have one of the most important crops in the world.
- Yep hunger does some wild things to people

Cool science class demo about the power of compressed air? Potato gun.
- Need a battery?
  Potato battery.

This is stupid. It gets plenty of recognition. Everyone loves potatoes. Makes alcohol too.
- Found the Irishman.
  
  More likely a Russian. Sounds like he's making vodka.

Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.
- Average evening at home? Vodka.
  
  Average evening at home?
  That’s what I said.

Want to get more control over the Irish? Potato Famine.

I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here
- Salt, too. Try having potatoes without salt. Blech!

Boil, mash, stick em a stew!
I heard some grow in permafrost

baked potato is fancy? wow
- A loaded baked potato (butter, sour cream, cheese, chives, salt/pepper) is usually a side dish when we have "special" meals like holidays or anniversaries or whatever and I think that's what OP was goin for?
  
  A big loaded potato is a pretty typical side for a nice steak and that definitely qualifies as fancy IMO.
- I think if there are chives garnished on it then it looks fancy.
  
  I mean baked potato is as fancy as the toppings you put on it yeah but after a while it stops being baked potato
- yeah they should've gone with pommes fondant
  
  nice TIL about these, will definitely try
- Well hey we're not all Thurston Howell III, only eating julienned potatoes cooked in virgin avocado oil.

Fancy breakfast?
- Is that kimchi?
  
  Looks like salsa. That's a more common potato topping. Although I suppose that kimchee would be good, too. I've never tried it.

Baked potatoes fancy? I love a baked potato with beans and cheese, but it's hardly fancy.
Fondant potatoes are what you want for fancy (and delicious).
- I don't believe I've ever had fondant potatoes before. Went off to learn about them. They look delicious. Very similar to roast that we'd do in butter but I bet the rosemary gives a nice nom.
  The recipe I saw calls for Russet. Not sure I've seen them for sale here either.
  
  Any floury potato will do. In England we would probably use Maris Piper potatoes.

Recreational even.
Wanna get wasted? Vodka Wanna just launch something as far as you can? Potato gun
- easy to smoke out of too
  
  dunno if that's healthy since raw potatoes are poisonous to eat. can't imagine them being good for you to smoke out of. but hey, when in a pickle a potato would probably do

Saved that astronaut guy stranded on Mars.
- Mark Watney probably never ate another potato after that though. I know I wouldn’t.

The classic Irishman's dilemma: do I eat this potatoe today, or ferment it so I can drink it tomorrow?
- Can't you just ferment the peels or something? I'm hungry AND thirsty!

My man, wait until you hear about this thing called rice.
- #allCarbsMatter
- Rice cooked in oil, for the love of god, rice cooked in oil.
  Yes I know Japan does it different. Yes I know they have dedicated cookers to make it fluff. No Japan does not have a monopoly on how to cook rice.
  
  Like fried rice or like actually cooking the raw rice in oil?
- Potato is just extra large rice
- Or soy.
  Want protein? Soy.
  Want milk? Soy.
  Okay, but how about a flavorful sauce to put on your food? Believe it or not, soy.

What's so fancy about a baked potato?
- It's the low-labor, hard-to-fuck up way to make potatoes that so many "fine dining" places default to.
  Note the quotes.
  
  Baked potatoes are what you get from a food truck.
  
  Are people meaning roast potatoes?
  
  This is a Wendy's.

The fact that we eat them on every occasion is recognition.

You would be quite welcome in !potatoism@lemmy.world.
- Joined thanks 😊
- I thought that read potataoism and was expecting spiritual memes about potatoes. I don't know what to think anymore

Breakfast? Apple. Fast food? Apple. Fancy dinner? Apple. Holidays? Apple. Relaxing at home? Apple. There's Apple

TIL in America, Baked Potato with a Steak is “fancy”, rather than “a Wednesday”.
I’d say the same about eg. Chicken “Kiev” with Potato Dauphinoise, standard ready meal gastropub fare.
- American, here - definitely not fancy, but it's a common side for a steak, so I assume that's where the association comes from.
  I'd expect "fancy" potatoes to be something like fondant, hasselback, or a well-done scalloped (dauphinoise, boulangere, anna).
  Source: huge food snob

potatoes are one of the few foods you can eat exclusively and survive for long periods of time
- IF you also have milk or some other source of dairy.
  
  that would mean mashed potatoes is the ultimate food

They're really versatile, I'm even using one as a laptop.
- Some of my photos were taken with a potato camera

Alcohol? Vodka! Starch to make bread? Potato starch! 2 potatoes? 1 potato in the ground!

Living that potathoe lifestyle

Who the fuck only eats mashed taters on christmas

Is there a country where potatoes are not eaten?
It's essentially an untapped vessel for world peace, if you think about it.
- I don't think that's hyperbole either. It's a nutritionally complete food that's fairly easy to grow, to ship, and it holds up for a very long time without refrigeration.
  The only place I've been lucky to visit where I didn't see potatoes was Costa Rica. Rice and black beans all day every day. Indians seem to like them very well. I don't know about other southeast Asian countries, China, or Japan but it seems unlikely they eat so much.
- Potatoes, some sort of boiled dough, and some sort of raw meat dish show up in basically every culture around the world

germany approves

Something to play Doom on? Potato.
- The ultimate goal of course is to install linux on an actual potato.

Quick photo to ask for help with a technical issue? Potato cam!

Just remember all the nutrition is in the skin!
- Nah.

Does a sweet potato count?
- An honorable mention for sure.

Picnic? Potato Salad!

Apparently potatoes are a staple food in South America, ao OP isn't alone in this.
- They’re a staple food in Germany, too
  
  Same with Denmark and afaik the rest of Scandinavia.
  Set in their ways old (70+) Danish people tend to refuse to eat anything for dinner that doesn't involve potatoes with a thick gravy and some kind of meat, preferably pork 😄
  
  They're the only food in Germany, some might say.
  
  So much so that our immigrant population refers to Germans as "Kartoffeln" (potatoes)

The most versitle food deserves recognition. I love potatoes so much. I had wonderful potatoes at breakfast over the weekend. And the best mashed potatoes (of my entire life) a few weekends ago. I'm pretty sure that other than eggs, potatoes are the most variable food I eat.

Why is mash a holiday food? They're just mechanically pre-digested boiled potatoes.
- mechanically pre-digested
  I can't speak for your anatomy, but my digestion process doesn't add milk and butter.
- Probably because OP makes things extra yummy on holidays and boiled potatoes are made approximately 700% yummier by being "mechanically pre-digested" as you call it.
  That's just how the science of potato magic works 🤷

Bar snack? Loaded potato skins

Stretched too thin? Potato starch
Bored? Potato Head
Horny? Believe it or not, potato head

Wait till you Google corn

YOUR MOM IS A POTATO FOR EVERY OCCASION

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