I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.
Potatoes au gratin
Or dauphinois
Or Hasselhoff. Yes, I know it’s “hasselback” but I refuse to change.
Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually
Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better
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.
au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives
Wanting to get drunk?
Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice
Need something to run Linux on? Potato
I run starch, btw.
Heh. This one's great.
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.
Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.
Average evening at home? Vodka.
Want to get more control over the Irish? Potato Famine.
I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here
Boil, mash, stick em a stew!
I heard some grow in permafrost
baked potato is fancy? wow
Fancy breakfast?
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).
Saved that astronaut guy stranded on Mars.
Recreational even.
Wanna get wasted? Vodka Wanna just launch something as far as you can? Potato gun
The classic Irishman's dilemma: do I eat this potatoe today, or ferment it so I can drink it tomorrow?
My man, wait until you hear about this thing called rice.
#allCarbsMatter
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?
Both of those look delicious.
Person in OP is probably from the US. Many restaurants when you order a steak, you also get a potato that’s been in the oven and cut into half way, with a bit of butter or sour cream placed inside of its open potato slit.
The fact that we eat them on every occasion is recognition.
You would be quite welcome in !potatoism@lemmy.world.
Breakfast? Apple. Fast food? Apple. Fancy dinner? Apple. Holidays? Apple. Relaxing at home? Apple. There's Apple
Always an Apple shill in the comments
Potatoes are apples of the ground.
dirt 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.
Alcohol? Vodka! Starch to make bread? Potato starch! 2 potatoes? 1 potato in the ground!
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