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Potatoes deserve recognition (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[-] [email protected] 103 points 1 week ago

I feel like we could have done better than 'baked potato' for a fancy dinner. Come on.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Or Hasselhoff. Yes, I know it’s “hasselback” but I refuse to change.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually

Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It's just that many supposedly "fine dining" establishments phone it in with baked because they're easy and customers accept it.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Like a TWICE baked potato.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

Wanting to get drunk?

Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago

Need something to run Linux on? Potato

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Heh. This one's great.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Yep hunger does some wild things to people

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Cool science class demo about the power of compressed air? Potato gun.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Need a battery?

Potato battery.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

This is stupid. It gets plenty of recognition. Everyone loves potatoes. Makes alcohol too.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Average evening at home? Vodka.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Boil, mash, stick em a stew!

I heard some grow in permafrost

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

baked potato is fancy? wow

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Saved that astronaut guy stranded on Mars.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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).

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Recreational even.

Wanna get wasted? Vodka Wanna just launch something as far as you can? Potato gun

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

What's so fancy about a baked potato?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It's the low-labor, hard-to-fuck up way to make potatoes that so many "fine dining" places default to.

Note the quotes.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Baked potatoes are what you get from a food truck.

Are people meaning roast potatoes?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The classic Irishman's dilemma: do I eat this potatoe today, or ferment it so I can drink it tomorrow?

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

My man, wait until you hear about this thing called rice.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

#allCarbsMatter

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Always an Apple shill in the comments

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Potatoes are apples of the ground.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

potatoes are one of the few foods you can eat exclusively and survive for long periods of time

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

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