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LadyButterfly to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 days ago

Potatoes deserve recognition

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Potatoes deserve recognition

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LadyButterfly to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 days ago
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  • @zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com
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    12•7 days ago

    Recreational even.

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

    • @nonfuinoncuro@sh.itjust.works
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      2•7 days ago

      easy to smoke out of too

      • @MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
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        1•6 days ago

        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

        • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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          1•6 days ago

          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.

  • @underline960@sh.itjust.works
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    10•7 days ago

  • @samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    4•6 days ago

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

  • @badbytes@lemmy.world
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    2•6 days ago

    Corn: hold my beer

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      3•6 days ago

      Rice: hold my sake

      Hemp: hold your breath

  • @ZMoney@lemmy.world
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    2•6 days ago

    Potatoes get plenty of recognition and always have.

  • billwashere
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    3•7 days ago

    Does a sweet potato count?

    • @Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
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      3•7 days ago

      An honorable mention for sure.

  • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    A nice, cold, peeled potato with salt and pepper on it is a suprisingly refreshing snack

    • @fungalfelidae5@lemm.ee
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      2•6 days ago

      hell yes i love cold potato

  • Ready! Player 31M
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    103•8 days ago

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

    • @Ymer@feddit.dk
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      1•6 days ago

      Pommes fondantes!

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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      53•8 days ago

      Potatoes au gratin

      • @Slovene@feddit.nl
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        22•8 days ago

        Or dauphinois

        • flandish
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          14•7 days ago

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

          • @MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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            3•7 days ago

            Served on a naked Hasselhoff, right?

            Right?

            • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              1•7 days ago

              Not so much these days.

        • @Contentedness@lemmy.nz
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          7•8 days ago

          The two preparations are quite similar aren’t they?

          • @Ledivin@lemmy.world
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            2•7 days ago

            Basically the same thing, except au gratin has cheese or some sort of bechamel

          • Ready! Player 31M
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            21•7 days ago

            Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.

            Secondly, yes. They’re very similar indeed.

            • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              I love a good “how dare you be so accurate!”, well done! 😁

              • @jaybone@lemmy.zip
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                6•7 days ago

                The initial outrage followed by tenuous agreement was very potato.

            • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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              7•7 days ago

              “If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike”

    • @9point6@lemmy.world
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      Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually

      Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.

        • @khannie@lemmy.world
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          Hard agree. I’d eat a lot of potatoes as an actual potato and the only one I’d generally not be arsed with is baked. Roast absolutely crushes them. Nice mash too. Chips? Easy win. Bit of gratin with a nice meal? Yes please. Potato salad for lunch? Better than baked son and you’d better believe it.

          Come to think of it, I honestly cannot think of a variety I’d place below baked on the yummy spud scale.

          • @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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            2•7 days ago

            Baked potato salad is pretty good though.

            • @khannie@lemmy.world
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              2•7 days ago

              I have never heard of that but I’m open to the experience.

              • @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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                2•7 days ago

                Cheese, bacon, chives and (sometimes) sour cream in your potato salad. I’m into it.

        • @9point6@lemmy.world
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          3•7 days ago

          I’m curious, what toppings are you using?

          I unironically rate a baked potato mid-to-high tier for potato. You’ve gotta make sure you cook it so the inside is fluffy and the skin starts to get crispy, then I always add a bit of butter, salt & pepper before the toppings

    • @Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      13•8 days ago

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

    • BruisedMoose
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      11•7 days ago

      Like a TWICE baked potato.

      • ivanafterall ☑️
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        2•7 days ago

        Okay, let’s not go too far.

      • @bitchkat@lemmy.world
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        1•7 days ago

        Loaded baked twice.

    • @thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
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      9•7 days ago

      au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives

      • ivanafterall ☑️
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        1•7 days ago

        Well, hon hon hon.

        You guys ever tried the Cheese Bomb Tater Kegs they sell warm near the Walmart checkout?

    • @Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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      4•7 days ago

      I just assumed they meant “roast potatoes”.

      • @tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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        20•7 days ago

        I assumed they meant ‘baked potato’ because ‘baked potato’ is what they said.

        • @Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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          8•7 days ago

          Don’t go making wild assumptions like that without citing your sources

          • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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            1•7 days ago

            Source: read the post

            Losers online hate this one weird trick

        • @Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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          1•7 days ago

          That’s fair, it’s just that the context suggested otherwise.

          I guess if he’s from northern England, and by “dinner” means the midday meal, then it makes sense. Otherwise there is no universe where baked potatoes are served for a fancy dinner. Roast potatoes are a part of a fancy dinner, though. The two cooking techniques are similar enough that I think it’s not unreasonable to assume, again given the context, that it’s just the wrong word.

          • @faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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            3•7 days ago

            Nah, I used to work at a country club that did black tie events and weddings, and baked potatoes did show up on the menu. If they wanted them even fancier, they could get the twice baked potatoes even.

            • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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              Yeah some people just always want a baked potato with a steak.

              • @Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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                Fair point, I retract my statement! The idea of using a baked potato as a side sounds bizarre to me, but if it’s a thing I guess it’s a thing.

    • @doughless@lemmy.world
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      3•8 days ago

      Funeral potatoes?

  • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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    53•8 days ago

    Wanting to get drunk?

    Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice

  • Elvith Ma'for
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    52•7 days ago

    Need something to run Linux on? Potato

    • @jaybone@lemmy.zip
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      67•7 days ago

      I run starch, btw.

      • @rmuk@feddit.uk
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        Fucki-, just, fucking fuck off.

        Upvoted, obvs. But still.

      • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        1•6 days ago

        god damnit i hate how clever this is.

      • @pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works
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        13•7 days ago

        Heh. This one’s great.

      • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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        6•7 days ago

        👏

    • Bappity
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      6•7 days ago

      or a homicidal AI with an unhealthy obsession to neurotoxin

  • @astutemural@midwest.social
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    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.

    • LadyButterflyOP
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      Yep hunger does some wild things to people

  • @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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    35•8 days ago

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

    • Sundray
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      28•8 days ago

      Need a battery?

      Potato battery.

  • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    25•7 days ago

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

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      8•7 days ago

      Found the Irishman.

      • piefood
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        archer irish dilema

      • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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        More likely a Russian. Sounds like he’s making vodka.

        • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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          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.

        • BeardedBlaze
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          So, more like Polish. Russia loves to try to steal the claim to vodka.

  • dohpaz42
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    24•7 days ago

    Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.

    • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7•7 days ago

      Average evening at home? Vodka.

      • dohpaz42
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        2•7 days ago

        Average evening at home?

        That’s what I said.

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