To think boiled potatoes are shite?

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Apart from beautiful new ones...Cheshire's preferably.

Other than that, boiled potatoes are just evil.

I live for roast potatoes, mashed with butter and salt, chips, wedges...baked....all my faves.

But put a big boiled potato on my plate...then...no. Just no.

DH loves them. I usually cook so never make them unless there are nice new potatoes available.

He's cooking now...chicken breasts and fucking boiled potatoes.

AIBU? I don't know if he's attempting a gravy or anything.

I like my food to actually taste of something, so YANBU.

Potatoes in general aren't really my carbohydrate of choice though.

Boiled potatoes are possibly the blandest thing I have even eaten, even new boiled potatoes are pretty grim, I can't remember the last time I had boiled potatoes. Mash with loads of butter, milk and pepper or roasts for me please.

I'm shocked, shocked at people's distaste for the simple untouched potato!

YABCOMPLETELYU potato in any form is delicious, you are without a doubt a potato snob, there I said it.

New potatos or ones just dug out the garden...the rest can mash

I can't go them at all, they're depressing. FIL has them with mince. Just mince. Nothing in the mince.

Grim.

Depends on the potato (how it's been stored etc) but I adore spuds in all their different forms.

Dullest food on earth. Roast, mashed, chipped, wedged, baked, all lovely. Boiled? What's the point? You'd fall asleep eating them.

DH always wants these as its what his mother used to serve to him, also extremely salty

Yuk - he doesn't understand mashed potato as he never had them as a child - allllll wrong

Meryl I don't want them for the same reason your DH DOES want them! My lovely Mum always did boiled as she worked and they were easiest.

Roast was for Sundays only. Mash...with sausages once a week. Every other day...BOILED!

It was the 70s and pasta hadn't arrived in our village yet. Rice had but wasn't ever cooked or bought unless it was pudding rice.

My diet was 1940s style basically.

You are in Oz, so many of your foods are varied and delicious, but like most of the rest of the world your potatoes are total rubbish sorry. Rest of UK: mostly rubbish. Ireland: proper potatoes - Sharps Express are the best.
Gran Canaria has lovely potatoes with garlic. In fact I want to go back there purely for the potatoes. Yum.

Oh YABVU. Very indeed.

I love boiled new potatoes. Its untainted virgin flesh fresh from the earth.

My parents on the other hand are obsessed with floury potatoes. They can't get the ones they like in Dublin so they've found a dealer 100 miles away who'll deliver bring a massive sack of them up every few months. They then coo in hushed tones about the amazingly, magically, delicious floury potatoes.

I too had a childhood of boiled potato horror.

And now I have an Irish mil who does this:

But then I remember the days of up-ending a pot of boiled potatoes onto the middle of the dinner table, and everyone just grabbing their own. And peeling them (at the table) if desired!

She thinks I don't like potato which is a lie I just cannot cope with that horror though.

Just ask DH to take what he wants & mash the rest.

Mash is the only form of potato I can't stand.

urgh! We used to have to have them on Mondays when I was growing up, nothing on them so just urgh, YANBU.

YADNBU - the childhood and school dinner horrors! Never have plain boiled potato, my mash has loads of butter and seasoning in.

I don't mind them. New pots obviously better.

But if you don't have much time, boiled potatoes with plenty of butter and possibly parsley do quite well (although obviously you could mash them if you prefer in very little extra time!)

To be fair, any plain carb is pretty dull: plain pasta, plain rice, plain cous cous etc.

Even new potatoes benefit from butter.

Lanzarote salt crusted potatoes, mmm.

All potatoes need butter!

So very wrong. Make more boiled potatoes than you need, then you have some left over for Spanish omelette, or to slice and fry with bacon and tomatoes for the world's best breakfast.

They're fine if they are fresh from the ground tiny new potatoes, although I much prefer them used in potato salad, any others YANBU.

The only thing that makes them worse is the addition of butter or olive oil which renders them completely inedible, just awful.

I agree that plain boiled potatoes are really boring. Mashed with loads of proper butter is best, you must be able to taste the butter and the salt but roasted or chipped are perfectly acceptable.

However I used to know a bloke who loves what you hate.

Can't stand new potatoes. I'd rather eat a boiled old one. But I get where you're coming from. If I boil potatoes I always make mash with oodles of butter ; )