Potatoes get plenty of recognition and always have.
Irish famine. Edit: there is not a potato for every occasion.
Corn: hold my beer
Rice: hold my sake
Hemp: hold your breath
A nice, cold, peeled potato with salt and pepper on it is a suprisingly refreshing snack
hell yes i love cold potato
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
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
only if you eat, like, a dozen or more large potatos raw.
having the occasional raw potato wont hurt you, unless you are dumb and eat one thats solid green.
The fact that we eat them on every occasion is recognition.
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.
So, more like Polish. Russia loves to try to steal the claim to vodka.
Sorry, I’m actually Japanese-Canadian. We make some potato shochu in the northern part of Japan. They’re not bad, but I prefer the sweet potato kind.
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.
Exactly!
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.
Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.
Average evening at home? Vodka.
Average evening at home?
That’s what I said.
Cool science class demo about the power of compressed air? Potato gun.
Need a battery?
Potato battery.
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
Want to get more control over the Irish? Potato Famine.
