Potato rant

[Badgers]

Potatoes are a big issue for me.

Baked, chipped, mashed, boiled, sauteed, new, old and many, many more wonderful ways to accompany most meals.

 

[nino_savatte]

Oh dear, he's off again.

'Accept responsibility' for my actions? He he. All I'm suggesting is that you either/or:
(a) Go somewhere else for your spuds if it bothers you so much.
(b) Write a letter to aforemention supermarket chain if it bothers you so much and you still can't take the huge effort to locate other potatoes, in London. An impossible mission, I'm sure you'll agree.
(c) Stop whining like a big boy's outer garment (and getting ridiculously angry/defensive) about a situation you could easily change.

(Tip: When you go to a place other than a supermarket you are allowed to buy more than one item)

No, you're "off" again. You're a fine one to accuse me of picking fights. Pathetic.

Fuck off.

 

[nino_savatte]

Potatoes are a big issue for me.

Baked, chipped, mashed, boiled, sauteed, new, old and many, many more wonderful ways to accompany most meals.

You can't mash a white potato.

 

[danny la rouge]

You have clearly missed the point of my thread: white potatoes are the only ones sold loose in the supermarket.

Yes, got that.

If I've been cycling over 150 miles a week, the last thing I want to do is travel a few miles to buy a few potatoes.

Got that, too. But you haven't actually told us how far the nearest other supermarket/greengrocers/market is. And how far you are prepared to trave.

There is clearly a pay-off here between potatoes and travel. Would you travel 440 yards for nice potatoes? Half a mile? A mile? A mile and a half? This is about the diminishing utility of nice potatoes to distance.

I should be able to get some half decent produce on my doorstep

Clearly; it is a pretty fundamental foodstuff.

it is not possible

Well, again we're at this notion of a metaphorical distance from your threshold. Here it is a "doorstep". We're not clear what that is for you. But I have suggested that for many people there is not a supermarket closer than half a mile from their house. I have further suggested that a notional "locality" is a circumference of three miles. Is that fair?

Is your supermarket closer than that? Are your alternatives further than that?

I'm tired.

Sorry to hear that. And all you want are decent tatties. You have my sympathy.

Would you travel a few unnecessary miles if you didn't feel like it

Not unnecessary ones, no. But I do have to travel half a mile for the nearest greengrocer, and further for the nearest supermarket. (Unlike you, I have other smaller shops closer than the supermarket). Whether I would travel further would depend on how dissatisfied I was with the potatoes available there.

Don't pretend that you're some sort of superhero.

Shopping isn't a superpower.

 

[ethel]

box deliveries?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I can't believe you're fighting over potatoes!

It would be more fun if they were fighting with potatoes. Spud guns at the ready men!

 

[tarannau]

Shopping isn't a superpower.

Fuck, and I've just spent the afternoon darning my Potato-Man (TM) costume.


It;s only yesterday that I came to the rescue of a stressed bonds trader. The poor lamb couldn't countenance walking further than Tesco's Metro, so quick as a flash and - WHOOSH! - I'd thrown a couple of King Edwards and a Pink Fir Apple through his kitchen window.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Have you considered looking for new recipes for your white potatoes?

How about Garlic Mashed Potatoes?

2-1/2 lb. potatoes, peeled, quartered
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tub (8 oz.) Cream Cheese
1 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. salt

Cook potatoes and garlic in boiling water in large covered saucepan 20 min. or until potatoes are tender; drain.

Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.

Add remaining ingredients; beat until well blended.

 

[dilute micro]

My sister makes that.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

My sister makes that.

That recipe is so flavorful from its other ingredients that I've had it made with rice or with turnips and its been good.

 

[christonabike]

If I've been cycling over 150 miles a week

You pass a greengrocers on this 150 miles a week jaunt on your bicycle?

That'd be a good chance to pick up some spuds

 

[PacificOcean]

You can't mash a white potato.

There is no need.

You can't beat Tesco's ready made mash in the chiller cabinets. It's lush.

Just as good as home made (and in fact better than my home made as isn't lumpy)

 

[Orang Utan]

If your homemade is lumpy, you ain't doing it properly.
You also have no taste buds

 

[danny la rouge]

Buying ready mashed potatoes is for people with more money than sense, no tastebuds, and terminal laziness.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

If your homemade is lumpy, you ain't doing it properly.
You also have no taste buds

I like lumps. That way you can tell its homemade.

 

[danny la rouge]

I like lumps. That way you can tell its homemade.

You can tell it's homemade by looking at the person and deciding whether they ae stupid or not.

 

[Orang Utan]

I like lumps. That way you can tell its homemade.

Mine doesn't have lumps in it - you just need to mash it properly!

 

[tarannau]

Lumps or not, home made mash should taste way better than pre-bought stuff. If it doesn't, add more butter.

It's the cost that's staggering too - it's like upmarket Smash for the terminally stupid. I mean, how hard is it to make mash?

 

[Chairman Meow]

There is no need.

You can't beat Tesco's ready made mash in the chiller cabinets. It's lush.

Just as good as home made (and in fact better than my home made as isn't lumpy)

Ready made mash?

What is the world coming to!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Mine doesn't have lumps in it - you just need to mash it properly!

You're missing the point.

I like a lump or two--not too many, just a few. Its a better texture than completely smooth or that grainy texture you get with those disgusting box mixes. IMHO.

 

[PacificOcean]

Lumps or not, home made mash should taste way better than pre-bought stuff. If it doesn't, add more butter.

It's the cost that's staggering too - it's like upmarket Smash for the terminally stupid. I mean, how hard is it to make mash?

Smash is potato starch and dextrose and all that sort of rubbish.

Mash from the chiller cabinet has just four things in it - Potatos, Milk, Butter and Salt.

And for £1 for a big thing of it that serves two easily and takes five minutes in the microwave - I'd rather fork out a quid than stand there peel potatos, boil them and mash them.

 

[Roadkill]

Ready made mash?

What is the world coming to!

I wondered that when I worked briefly in a factory making frozen omelettes and scrambled eggs for Farmfoods.

Who tf is too lazy to make themselves scrambled eggs?

 

[Maggot]

You pass a greengrocers on this 150 miles a week jaunt on your bicycle?

That'd be a good chance to pick up some spuds

Good point, there must be some decent tattie sellers on your route.

 

[nino_savatte]

There is no need.

You can't beat Tesco's ready made mash in the chiller cabinets. It's lush.

Just as good as home made (and in fact better than my home made as isn't lumpy)

Ready made mash is disgusting. I prefer to make my own, ta.

 

[nino_savatte]

You pass a greengrocers on this 150 miles a week jaunt on your bicycle?

That'd be a good chance to pick up some spuds

No, I don't...you may find that hard to believe but my route to and from Kingston doesn't take in any shops...unless you know of some within Richmond Park.

I don't fancy stuffing a big bag of spuds (most of which will go off anyway as I'm a singleton) into my panniers as I've got enough things that I'm required to carry in them. Where would I put all this stuff?

Btw, years ago, there wasn't any such a thing as a generic "white potato".

 

[Badgers]

Mashed up (not too much) with skins, butter, milk (or cream), black pepper, grated cheese and heart disease!!!

WIN

 

[Funky_monks]

Refrigerating spuds isn't advised....like refrigerating bread, they come out tasting horrible.

This is not true, I store all my (homegrown) spuds in hessian sacks in a cold room (at work) which should always be at about 5 degrees just like a cool frost-free winter. I find that even Ratte and Fir-Apple keep for months. Potatoes need to be cool, dark and dry.

I can't see why they wouldn't keep in a fridge as long as it isn't much below 5 degrees and you put them in a paper bag. Sod the use-by, chuck em when they go off. Use your eyesight coupled with your brain to tell you this.

My nearest shop of any kind is about 5 miles away. I find it hard to garner any pity for someone who cant walk more than 100 yards, even if they have done a lot of cycling in the week. If, as it has been said, the market is open Saturday mornings, go on Saturday mornings.

 

[Funky_monks]

Btw, years ago, there wasn't any such a thing as a generic "white potato".

There still isn't. It will be one of your modern 'dual-purpose' blight-resistant varieties, possible candidates include: Milva, Orla, Robinta.

 

[nino_savatte]

This is not true, I store all my (homegrown) spuds in hessian sacks in a cold room (at work) which should always be at about 5 degrees just like a cool frost-free winter. I find that even Ratte and Fir-Apple keep for months. Potatoes need to be cool, dark and dry.

I can't see why they wouldn't keep in a fridge as long as it isn't much below 5 degrees and you put them in a paper bag. Sod the use-by, chuck em when they go off. Use your eyesight coupled with your brain to tell you this.

My nearest shop of any kind is about 5 miles away. I find it hard to garner any pity for someone who cant walk more than 100 yards, even if they have done a lot of cycling in the week. If, as it has been said, the market is open Saturday mornings, go on Saturday mornings.

Let's get something straight: I was fucking tired...knackered if you will, when I started this thread. The last thing I wanted to do was travel to find a couple of fucking potatoes. Is that okay? I don't want your pity either.

Spuds that are kept in the fridge come out of it in a disgusting state. I'm sorry but I don't agree with that method of storage and it isn't advised by those in the know either.

 

[skyscraper101]

Funniest potato rant eva.

There is so much choice for buying spuds locally. Plus Whole Foods do free delivery of organic spuds to Hammersmith if you spend over £50 on the total shop if you really can't be arsed to walk 5-15 mins.

And they are very nice spuds too.