To serve boiled potatoes

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Much stroppiness and comments and moaning because when asked what's for dinner and told them they asked would it be nice potatoes or boiled... Nice I said but they were boiled so apparantly I lied.. Surely everyone eats boiled potatoes for dinner in UK sometimes aren't they an English staple part of our traditional diet for context I didn't serve just boiled spuds I served with peas carrots and salmon encroute (shop bought but nice) are they just spoilt? We had pasta yesterday beautiful tapas day before Indian night before fresh fish etc etc it's not like they have to eat it every day I think they are too used to lovely exotic food and are just being ungrateful shits. Or are boiled potatoes actually that bad?

I used to haaaaate boiled potatoes as a child. I never cook them now, unless it’s new potatoes. I don’t actually cook any potatoes nearly as much as my mum did, but when I do it’s most likely to be roasties. I do actually like a flourery boiled potatoes with a nice hearty winters stew, but I don’t tend to cook that sort of thing for myself, I have it at my
Mums!

The only acceptable way to consume boiled potatoes is if you turn them into a lovely creamy potato salad.

Otherwise they are the worlds most boring foodstuff.

@AlfonsoTheTerrible

Boiled potatoes are lovely with butter, salt and pepper. No need to gild gold.

But better mashed

Nowt wrong with boiled potatoes as long as they're smoothed in butter or gravy

I wouldn't be keen and never cook them. We do have new potatoes. And tbh you did lie to your kids as they specifically asked!

Just pointless carbs.
They are just there, not nice, just filler food.
Fine if you work a really physical job but with Salmon en Croute ?
Grim

I wouldn't serve plain boiled spuds, just because I couldn't be bothered to peel them when I could do new potatoes instead for less effort!

I'm genuinely surprised. I thought everybody ate boiled potatoes quite regularly as standard.

Could it be an Irish (and possibly Scottish) thing?

I'm English and regularly eat boiled potatoes. Perfectly normal, and how anyone can call a decent foodstuff 'grim', like it's someone's skidder-ridden pants is a mystery to me.

Boiled potatoes do need some sort of moisture though - parsley sauce, or gravy for instance.

There's nothing wrong with boiled potatoes, though I never cook them now (except new potatoes) because too many holidays as a child when every day we ate boiled potatoes, every single day,

Boiled = boring

But why? Any more than pasta or rice is boring? All are served to bulk out a meal and not swamp the flavours of a sauce or gravy or other components. Plus potato varieties have very different flavours and textures - pick the potato to go with the food, just as you would pick a pasta or rice.

And mid week quite frankly, you want easy cooking after work which commends the simpler cooking methods for your meal bulker!

They were rude but boiled potatoes (unless they’re new potatoes) really are boring. They remind me of school dinners. I’d have done oven chips instead and saved the spuds for mash/roasting/turning into wedges etc another time.

Any form of potatoes is redundant with salmon en croute.

The pastry is the carb component of the meal.

Agree with other boiled new potatoes are fine.

For maincrops, it takes 2 minutes to add butter and milk and make mash. So why wouldn't you?

Any form of potatoes is redundant with salmon en croute.
The pastry is the carb component of the meal.

I’d still be hungry without the spuds.

I always forget how much Mn hates carbs.

Nothing wrong with some boiled potatoes and butter.

We eat boiled spuds (with butter) once maybe twice a week -ie with ratatouille and fish for example (always with a 'saucy' side dish).. Nobody complains. We get sacks of potatoes from the local farmer. Prefer boiled potatoes to mash anyday!

@UntamedWisteria

Any form of potatoes is redundant with salmon en croute.

The pastry is the carb component of the meal.

Agree with other boiled new potatoes are fine.

For maincrops, it takes 2 minutes to add butter and milk and make mash. So why wouldn't you?

Exactly this. Im not even a low carber but I dont get why people lump tasteless carbs onto every meal in the UK. Unless you are doing a very physical job .

Any form of potatoes is redundant with salmon en croute.

The pastry is the carb component of the meal.

You want mashed potato with pie, surely? Pie and mash is a thing. Pastry is the delicious bonus carb, like the Yorkshire pudding on a roast dinner.

I like them but never cook them. They might appear next time I do mince and dumplings.

With fish, try seasoning with olive oil and herbs, garlic if you like it.
Always cook with skin. Cut them in half if too big.

They will never taste great, but good enough.

Mash or roasties. Occasionally new potatoes with their skin on and some minty butter. Plain boiled potatoes sound unappetising

My DC are adults now and I have never once cooked them plain old boiled potatoes. Nice little baby potato’s in skins yes, but not plain large potato’s. I had enough of them growing up in the 70s and never liked them.

It’s funny how some people are surprised that some of us don’t eat them. I’m surprised that so many people still do! I thought that way of eating potato’s had died out. I mean you never see it on a restaurant menu.

Never - roasted or baked or mash very occasionally

We have them occasionally as DH is English and likes them but I always think boiled potatoes look like little lumps of misery.

Boiled potatoes are horrible and I hated being served them as a child so I sympathise with your children I’m afraid! I have never cooked them as an adult - there are much nicer ways to serve potatoes and it’s not much harder to make mash.