Does anyone else ever just eat a baked potato (or 2, maybe three if they're really small) for dinner? With some topings of course.
That's what I had last night and my coworker acted like it was weird.
I do this sometimes with a big bowl of mashed potatoes. Its both 1) financially viable as I'm broke, and 2) a comfort food.
your co worker fears the spud
Don't Fear the Reaper Spud
no but now i want that
I don't know if this is a Midwestern thing or not, but the potato bar was always a time-honored tradition when I was coming up out there
Just bake up a whole mess of baked potatoes and then serve them with a lot of different fixin's
Always good eating
Potato bars are so rare here (also Midwest). They happen, but super uncommon.
Probably less uncommon than the rest of the US, tho.. since the food all comes from here 😅
the potato bar
I totally forgot about that. I haven't had that in decades. I did some googling. At reddit I found this potato bar mystery...
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God yea!
Yes taters are great. I give them two thumbs up.
my coworker acted like it was weird.
You should have told him it was artificially "bacon double cheeseburger" flavored.
Yes, but no toppings other than salt and pepper.
Related story - a friend had crashed at my apartment and in the morning I offered to pick up bagels from the place down the street. He thanked me, and I came back a few minutes later, bearing the best goddamn bagels in California. He said, "Where's the cream cheese?" I said, "You didn't ask for cream cheese." He said that with bagels it's implied, because "otherwise it's just bread." I said, ". . . I don't see the problem here."
I have told this story to many people and not one of them has sided with me.
I mean...
I've eaten bagels with just butter or margarine, but you gotta put something on there. Just a bagel would be weird.
They were already everything bagels. What more could be necessary?
I’m with you but it depends on the bagel and that’s probably the problem.
Many people only really have experience with like frozen/mass produced bagels, which are not good dry. Good toasted with cream cheese or butter, but not dry (speaking from intensely lazy experience).
But if you get one of the good ones that’s baked with cheese and is just soaked with delicious? Made by a good bakery? No question I’ll eat that dry. It doesn’t need extra if you make it right.
toppings are bourgeoisie decadence
Baked potatoes are great as leftovers but you gotta move fast because they go bad in a couple days. Simply bake an extra and the following day cube it up and fry it in a pan with some oil and seasonings. Get some crispy golden brown crust on there. Serve with eggs or beans or whatever else you like. Personally I recommend an omelet with mushrooms and onions and your favorite hot sauce.
I thought the "if they're really small" referred to the eater. was gonna say you're so real for that, but unfortunately, it's not real
big if true, but alas it is small.
Frequently.
Add some shredded cheese or whatever, some fresh chives (grow 90% of the year here), some bacon, and some water or oil for mouthfeel (based on calorie needs) and you’ve got a whole meal.
Potatoes are cheap and so filling. Passing on them as a meal is a mistake.
Chives rule. They also grow great in pots so you can pull them indoors during the cold and have them 100% of the year.
I know some Russians, that even though they had become petite bourgeoisie, they would go out of their way to enjoy their old countryside way of living by burying some potatoes under the ground by an inch or so, building a nice campfire, then drinking themselves silly waiting for the fire to die down enough for them to push it around to dig out their potatoes then eat them as is while passing around a salt shaker and cussing about how hot the potatoes are when they bite into them.
Literally just a meal of beer or vodka and potatoes
All the time haha, best food you can cook in a microwave
Not nearly often enough, to be honest.
Also a baked onion is good.
Baked potatoes for dinner is like the most normal thing in the world.
Normal lunch in germany
Yes, especially if they're baked in some hot coals while wrapped in foil.
Lookup the dish kumpir.
Never thought to mash the inside of the potato up! This is really exciting.
I do this sometimes, just a baked potato and a slice of deli ham. My mum calls it "single girl dinner".
I'll bake 5 or 10 pounds of potatoes at a time and eat them all week. Usually topped with chili, sometimes just cold and plain.
this is probably not news to you but twice-baked potatoes are incredible
Some kind of bacon, garlic, ranch or sour cream, green onion, butter, maybe even some hot sauce. Fill me up!
I'm a sour cream and hot sauce guy.