Mashed potatoes, potato chips, or french fries?
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Depends what I’m eating them with.
Mashed potatoes with any sort of steak, grilled chicken, or baked turkey.
French fries with burgers, cheese steaks, or assorted warm sandwiches.
Chips with cold cuts.
Yes.
Although I refrain from eating any of those things anymore, I really, really, really miss potato chips.
Well, this is bizarre. I just mixed up some instant mashed potatoes for lunch to go with soup. I usually make my mashed potatoes from scratch with butter and heavy cream, but for quick, I use Idahoan brand roasted garlic and parmesan potatoes. They’re really good. And fast.
I like those french fries at Penn Station or Five Guys. Skins on, hot, and tasty with vinegar.
Potato chips are yum, and we have a local place, Mikesell’s, which are the best. When I make up a care package for my son in Charlotte, it’s got Mikesell’s chips init.
Agree with you on the Mikesell’s chips. None better. Cincy brags about their Grippo’s, but they don’t hold a candle to Mikesell’s.
Mmm….a little red-wine vinegar on hand-cut fries. That’s the stuff.
I mainly just want to say that I’m against peeling potatoes. Even in mashed potatoes, the skin adds a bit of texture, which I like.
None of the above. Roasted if I have the time; microwaved if I’m in a hurry. Mashing is a pain in the * and frying is not healthy.
Mashed Potatoes, baby!!
with everything.
and always, gravy on the side.
Nothing is better than welldone mashed potatoes.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Mashed potatoes, potato chips, or frech fries?
Is that french fries, or freedom fries? 😉
portion de frites, s’il vous plait!
‘Round here we call ’em Freedom Fries. What are you, some kind of commie?
Just to give you a sense of how screwed up “Round Here” is, Mike is referring to mashed potatoes.
Mashed Potatoes, as long as they aren’t made from a box.
I looked up “frech” and it means “insulting, barefaced, naughty, rude”.
The best way to consume a potato is baked, with a steak, like at Sayler’s here in Portland. Slavered with butter, chives, sour cream, salt and pepper. And a pint of local beer.
(This is why I’ll be looking for a new heart and veins in a few years.)
I can’t answer this question in the abstract, because the quality of each varies so widely.
Some red-skin garlic mashed potatoes, or plain, white potatoes with the skins removed first?
McDonald’s fries, or fresh hand-cut spuds fried up in the kitchen, with the skins on?
Never met a spud I didn’t like.
As it is written in Ecclesiastes, “To every tater, there is a season.”
Or something like that.
“Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.” Chauncey Gardiner
False equivalencies.
French fries are better than mashed, which are better than potato chips.
But nothing beats pan fried.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/butter-fried-potatoes/
But without the stupid onion (what is with cooks and onions?)
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YES