On the subject of potatoes...
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coley_merrinI love potatoes, really. My hips, they love them even more, but such is the result of Sit on Butt While Working and Feed Face.
How many times did we have a meal without potatoes, if it was some kind of protein? Fish sticks? Probably fries or tater tots. Roast chicken/turkey? Probably potatoes. I don't remember what sides we ate with pork, so I can't expound there.
Steak, though. That Required some kind of potato. People struggling to live on the plains? That was my family at one time. So it was a Thing. Usually mashed, sometimes baked. And a veggie, too, probably. (If it was my preference, that would've been corn, and even more ideally creamed corn, every time. I was fickle against green things. However, beet juice made wild pink mashed potatoes!)
We didn't ever "do" baked potatoes. You know, with cheese, sour cream (D:), etc. It was potato (nuked), some substance of a butter type, salt and black pepper.
Roasted potatoes, au gratin, hash browns, things made with potato flour... Potatoes in burritos, hey. Though, full confession, our family meals of burritos were called "tacos." We have lettuce for tacos? Okay. Let's do it. ("tacos" = tortilla, beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato. basically a hamburger sans bun. and taco sauce for the spice lovers of which I was not as a child. occasionally refried beans in later years.) I forget when I figured out that tacos =/= burritos. I was quite aged when I stepped into a Taco Bell for the first time, so maybe I got my education outside the bun, who knows. Or maybe in a book. I seem to recall reading a few of those. XD;
Anyway, I digress. Food is wonderful. And potatoes...works of art.
How many times did we have a meal without potatoes, if it was some kind of protein? Fish sticks? Probably fries or tater tots. Roast chicken/turkey? Probably potatoes. I don't remember what sides we ate with pork, so I can't expound there.
Steak, though. That Required some kind of potato. People struggling to live on the plains? That was my family at one time. So it was a Thing. Usually mashed, sometimes baked. And a veggie, too, probably. (If it was my preference, that would've been corn, and even more ideally creamed corn, every time. I was fickle against green things. However, beet juice made wild pink mashed potatoes!)
We didn't ever "do" baked potatoes. You know, with cheese, sour cream (D:), etc. It was potato (nuked), some substance of a butter type, salt and black pepper.
Roasted potatoes, au gratin, hash browns, things made with potato flour... Potatoes in burritos, hey. Though, full confession, our family meals of burritos were called "tacos." We have lettuce for tacos? Okay. Let's do it. ("tacos" = tortilla, beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato. basically a hamburger sans bun. and taco sauce for the spice lovers of which I was not as a child. occasionally refried beans in later years.) I forget when I figured out that tacos =/= burritos. I was quite aged when I stepped into a Taco Bell for the first time, so maybe I got my education outside the bun, who knows. Or maybe in a book. I seem to recall reading a few of those. XD;
Anyway, I digress. Food is wonderful. And potatoes...works of art.
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Date: 2010-08-11 04:46 am (UTC)I got kicked offline in the middle of posting the comment, and I didn't know if it worked or not.
Food is very good. And tempting. Talking about Halloween when you've given up eating candy isn't a very good idea either.
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Date: 2010-09-02 10:17 pm (UTC)and potatos are heavenly creationsBut I don't eat fried potato things anymore. It's not that I don't love them (dipped in mayonaise with a side of heart attack, I'll take that one) but . . . I had to give up the side of heart attack and the potatos just don't taste as good without it. /cries. Heaven. God, you'd better have the all you can eat motherload of potato, you hear? *shakes fist at sky*But . . . /loves spicey things. My body is not agreeing with the love of spicey foods recently, though. It's not that I don't eat it I just end up grabbing the nearest antiacid thing I can find.
I . . . I need a hobbie that isn't reading fanfiction/livejournal. I'm back to school and suddenly I have time to do things again. /at a loss.