To think the words gone mad or am I just boring?

If that’s the best thing you can think of doing on a Saturday, you need to take a good hard look at yourself.

But isn't that the point, they don't have anything better to do. I'm dicking about on MNs so can't judge

A few years ago as Tik Tok was starting to get big I experienced something similar

People were travelling for miles to visit a place that did multiple flavours of slush puppies. To be fair on Tik Tok the store looked massive and really impressive.

In reality I knew that it wasn’t quite the case - it is the tiny petrol station shop of a garage in Ibrox in Glasgow. Not that exotic or exciting a place, unless you support Rangers. But nonetheless people were driving up from everywhere just to get a slush puppy from this garage

Those of us that were local thought it was hilarious

There is a guy who just opened a baked potato business in my town as well. It must be a thing atm.

If that’s the best thing you can think of doing on a Saturday, you need to take a good hard look at yourself.

Love a good jacket but this is just madness.

Social media definitely plays a massive part, but fads like this have been around forever.

Like Tulipmania in the 17th century.

Or Glass Delusion

Sounds crazy. I love a jacket potato’s with cheese and beans but it would be just as quick to cook one at home than it would to queue?

Not heard of this before but hoping it will raise the popularity of jacket potatoes again. So many pubs / cafes have taken baked potatoes off their lunch menu now and it's my favourite. (PS it doesn't matter whether the cheese or beans go in first as long as the cheese is not put in the oven/microwave to melt!)

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I can't imagine people queuing for hours for a potato because of an advert in a magazine

Oh no! it’s so very wrong, I agree that cheese goes on top always otherwise it’s just a sloppy mess. And yes, there is no such thing as too much cheese. How could this possible???

It's not odd.... it's just the same as a tv advert

Or magazine ads. But who buys magazines anymore

I love a good jacket potato but that's ridiculous. The same thing happened a little while ago with a chip shop, I really don't get it either.

I'm going to make jacket potatoes for dinner.

Some people are really pragmatic on this thread which is OK. But what do you think makes for a more fun story/life experience?
“We once got up at 4am to queue for a jacket potato” or “ I once microwaved jacked potato for lunch at home”. Just live a little, it’s a harmless way to have some fun and our kid would love a trip for a jacket potato in the middle of the night and would have great memories doing something completely pointless but hilarious with her parents.

I understand all the words in this sentence, but all together I just can't work it out. Makes zero sense 😕

Don't understand people becoming obsessed with something totally everyday and ordinary.
Because it's accessible. Look at the Mrs Hinch thing, the vast majority can buy a sponge & clean, very clever marketing.

It's the tik tok effect, just look at stanley cups! A video goes viral and everyone goes crazy for it, very odd

Some

I'm constantly gobsmacked by people. Cannot believe that there are a significant amount of sheeples who are heavily influenced by trends and can be a bit dim at times.

It's human nature for sine to want to part of something, so it's not that out there

I'm with you. This is utter madness as he even admits ro going to bookers and just buying massive plastic tubs of toppings. I was expecting it to be really different / gourmet.

I used to be a chef in a seaside fish shack restaurant. Folk would queue 3 hours for our food. It was different though - everything made from scratch and high end ingredients. We featured in the Observer and Jay Rayner called us his new favourite place. The difference being the quality / surroundings etc and nobody else was doing what we did.

Don't understand people becoming obsessed with something totally everyday and ordinary.

People are sheep, plain and simple. If everyone else is buying something or doing something they must do it to or feel left out. Like that whole stupid prime drink phase and parents driving miles and paying stupid amounts just so their demanding little kids could get a poxy drink they thought they just had to have.

It’s like the short-lived Binley Mega Chippy fad all over again. There was a song.

I do think it’s weird, but interesting, how these things incubate on social media.

SoDoffYourHat · Today 10:40

MrsSkylerWhite · Today 10:37

Nothing beats a proper baked spud, microwave just doesn’t cut it. Lots of people can’t afford to run their oven for up to 1 1/2 hours now, so maybe that explains some of it?
Not my cup of tea, queuing for hours, but each to their own.

We use the air fryer to keep costs down

Agree, air fryers are great but they’re quite an outlay initially.

Same happened to a Chinese locally. Tbf it was a novel concept, drive through Chinese. Anyway, it went viral. People queuing for 3/4 hours for a Chinese. Blocking the local roads etc.
It’s all died down now months later and I don’t think business is doing so well from what I hear. We went once, it was ok but definitely not 4 hours worth

I think that’s a rather nice story.
People have always gone mad with crazes and this is a harmless one and he’s trying to do something good with it.
They’re probably having nice chats in the queue and it gets them out of the house.
I also suspect that in an age when more people than ever are working and studying from home and we are having less face to face contact than ever before this is partly a subconscious response to a human craving for company and shared experiences. We are a social animal currently trying to live in a way our brains weren’t designed for.