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?

@frasersmummy

Right I dont get this .. boiled potatoes are rank but mash is delicious ..??!!

surely thats just boiled potatoes that you've hit with a masher

There is a lot of potato snobbery on this thread

Real butter and a splash of milk or cream, that's the difference!

Eww no, baby or new potatoes can be boiled. But mashing potatoes plainly boiled is disgusting.

Potatoes will come back into fashion.

My Irish family still do the boiled in skin potatoes, then you are expected to peel on your plate. I don’t get it. Gravy everywhere, fiddling with hot potatoes that are harder to peel because they are soft. Then everything goes cold whilst you are faffing. Just peel the fuckers before cooking, then roast or mash them. Unless they are nice new potatoes, in which case serve with parsley and butter

We had a sack of winter potatoes under the stairs. In the seventies apart from Friday chips and Sunday roasted, it was boiled potatoes with most meals. My job to peel them. Cold water to scrub off the mud and then remove the eyes. Potato peelings for the swill bucket. Towards the end of the sack they'd often be a bit slimy or sprouting. My brother loved mash so he would fork his up into the gravy but I kept mine whole with butter or margarine slathered on

Keratinsmooth I'd love to try that. It's like potato connoisseurship: taking it to the next level!😄

@Keratinsmooth

My Irish family still do the boiled in skin potatoes, then you are expected to peel on your plate. I don’t get it. Gravy everywhere, fiddling with hot potatoes that are harder to peel because they are soft. Then everything goes cold whilst you are faffing. Just peel the fuckers before cooking, then roast or mash them. Unless they are nice new potatoes, in which case serve with parsley and butter

You cut the potatoes in half, if they are not yet, lay them with the skin down, cut to pieces of desired size, then just eat like you would a baked potato. The inside comes off very easily. No need to peel them. My DS eats the skin, I don't. They taste a lot better if boiled with the skins on.

Because this is mumsnet and if you do anything more than sniff a carrot once a week you're a fat heifer who is single handedly destroying the NHS!

This is such a misread of the thread. Even most those who love boiled potatoes are suggesting adding butter. Everyone else says roast them (fat!), chip them (fat!), mash them (butter!). The problem with bad boiled potatoes (and I’m sure we can all agree that firm waxy herby new potatoes are a more appealing concept) is precisely because they are so tedious and joyless.

They are over fed ungrateful entitled twats

“Over fed” @joystir59? How do you know that? There’s no portion size given.

A boiled potato is just lazy and reminds me of school dinners served with brown stew. There is so much more you can do with a spud.

@MasterBeth

Because this is mumsnet and if you do anything more than sniff a carrot once a week you're a fat heifer who is single handedly destroying the NHS!

This is such a misread of the thread. Even most those who love boiled potatoes are suggesting adding butter. Everyone else says roast them (fat!), chip them (fat!), mash them (butter!). The problem with bad boiled potatoes (and I’m sure we can all agree that firm waxy herby new potatoes are a more appealing concept) is precisely because they are so tedious and joyless.

I didn't mean this thread says that. But food threads on here usually do! Most mumsnetters seem to have a really weird attitude towards food This one (and the thread about this one) are anomalies!

Growing up, boiled potatoes (bit of salt) were the standard veg, with something like cauliflower/broccoli & bechamel sauce and meat/chicken. Mind you, we never did love it, but with all the rest it was okay.

Boiled in the skin I've always found delicious, but rarely make it myself. Boiled and cooled, perfect for BBQ. Dauphinoise is awesome.

I wouldn't be bothered if your kids said they didn't like it. I would love your week menu! I don't know how old your kids are, but maybe you should try a new method (there are a lot) and let them help prepare the food ?

Lazy is such a ridiculous pejorative term in this context of daily feeding of a family.

They are ungrateful and if they don't like it it's time to share the load.

Carbs and potatoes have never gone out of fashion for me. It's just plain boiled potatoes I find boring. I cook them in numerous other ways

Not a fad. Proven to increase risk of type 2 Diabetes. Some people can’t eat carbs without these turning into excess blood sugar, so, best way of reducing this in such people is to consume less carbs..

No it hasn't.

The "research" cited by the carbs=death brigade firstly:

• doesn't distinguish carbs by sub type
• extrapolates data on people with specific health issues to whole populations

So basically bad statistics and the diet industry (which includes doctors who think being qualified in one specialty makes them an expert in diet and nutrition) make a lot of money out of bad science.

This same fad comes round under a new name eveyr 15 yrs or so. When I was a student it was calld the Atkins diet, all the same claims were made.

There is absolutely no evidence that complex carbs are harmful to normal, healthy adults. Quite the opposite in fact - decades of cohort research support complex carbs as a key component of a healthy diet.

@PurpleDaisies presumably "over fed" because a starved child would leap at the chance to eat a plain boiled tattie. Rather than an over fed child turning their fussy wee nose up.

Lazy is such a ridiculous pejorative term in this context of daily feeding of a family.

Yes. Nothing wrong with lazy in this context. Not lazier than roasted.
Particularly as an aside to a more complex meal (salmon en croute).

Totally agree @Lweji

Not everyone can cook from scratch every day. I used a jar of curry sauce last night instead of making my own. We often eat (and enjoy) freezer food. The horror...

Could have been worse. Could have been tinned potatoes that you boiled. I know they're fairly cheap and last but the texture is awful.

I prefer boiled potatoes skin on but wouldn't have a problem plain boiled as I could add butter, salt or herbs / spice (off to Aldi to get their salmon & dill en croute for tea).

I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for tinned spuds in a curry. Which I eat with rice. And naan.

This has made me nostalgic for one of my favourits childhood dinners - home made mince pie with peas and boiled floury potatoes. With butter. There was enough gravy in the pie to eat with the spuds.

A good spud on its own is tasty.

Your family OP are being unreasonable though.

I think your kids were being ungrateful. You are not unreasonable to serve boiled potatoes if you like them, but maybe you could have done more to manage expectations.

You are being unreasonable to assume that everyone eats boiled potatoes! I grew up on food like that, but I never cook it now. The only potatoes we eat regularly in this house are jacket potatoes or curried ones. I do love a good roast potato when I'm out, though!

I read that roasting tinned spuds was tasty and quick so tried it, turns out they are tiny grenades that explode violently when added to some oil and heat. It was a scary time!

"ugly lumps of misery" "boiled potato witch" loving these