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 like boiled potatoes ( I'm Irish so I grew up on them) I try not to eat potatoes more than once or maybe twice a month now though, so much other lovely food out there to explore

Boring boiled potatoes can be transformed into delicious mashed potatoes in literally 30 seconds with a bit of butter and milk.

Why on earth would people not do this?

Perfect. With a lump of salted Irish butter on them all floury and gentle smash with s fork so the butter can get everywhere.

**off to do some spuds for lunch

Mince and tatties, part of a staple diet here, I'm Scottish, I boil new potatoes with a wee bit of salt, no butter because I don't eat dairy.

Had them pretty much every evening as a child, my mum still has them most evenings, she pares them, I don't.

My daughter loves tatties, she'd eat them just on their own! I have what I consider normal, but everyone else thinks weird, a taste for raw uncooked potatoes!

Just add a few extra steps to boiled potatoes, it makes it really yummy.

Japanese salty-sweet flavoured potatoes

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

But its that and the butter & milk you add to it that transforms it from unedible to absolutely delicious

We only boil baby new potatoes, we have jackets most commonly. Or, I forgot, salad potatoes for a potato salad.

YANBU

People eat far too much wheat, in my amateur opinion. At breakfast, lunch, dinner, for snacks. They need to mix it up a bit with some good ol' tatties.

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

But its that and the butter & milk you add to it that transforms it from unedible to absolutely delicious"

@Kinneddar surely the same applies for mash where you've peeled the spuds beforehand or baked potatoes, they're all a bit bland and tasteless unless you add butter/salt/baked beans etc.

The flesh of a boiled potato with skin on is exactly the same as the flesh of a baked potato or mash ... because they're the same thing!
The only real difference is that with baked potatoes you can eat the skin, for the other two it's just sharing the load of peeling the potatoes.

Never eaten a potato I haven't enjoyed!

Boiled potatoes are criminally underrated. I usually save them for when I am feeling under the weather, and eat with a little unsalted butter, lots of sea salt and a splodge of Colman's english mustard. Heaven. While my preference are ruby gems, any good potato will do. And what I don't eat are sautéed the next day.

@Kinneddar

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

But its that and the butter & milk you add to it that transforms it from unedible to absolutely delicious

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Plain, boiled potatoes are not my favourite - I very rarely serve them, and when I do, it's usually with roast gammon and parsley sauce - so the sauce livens up the plainness of the potatoes.

With salmon en croute, I'd serve new potatoes, with a bit of butter on them.

However, when someone is going to the effort of doing the cooking (and probably the meal planning, shopping list making and shopping), the peanut gallery do not get to make snippy comments!! Dh cooks a lot of the time, and sometimes he does plain, boiled potatoes with things I would do new potatoes with - and I would not dream of complaining - I am grateful for the effort he has made, and eat my meal.

I haven't had a plain boiled potato since I left home 37 years ago. I do eat boiled new potatoes, but add pepper, black pepper, parsley and chives.

Yes a very nice thing about boiled potatoes is frying up the leftovers. Lovely with bacon and an egg on top.

I'm confused as to what people are talking about. Boiled new potatoes with skin on is a common food. But I've never had a boiled regular potato. Is this a thing? Or are people talking about new potatoes?

An ordinary big potato, peeled, cut and boiled.

@Okbussitout

I'm confused as to what people are talking about. Boiled new potatoes with skin on is a common food. But I've never had a boiled regular potato. Is this a thing? Or are people talking about new potatoes?

Old potatoes. Big old floury potatoes, peeled, cut in half, boiled until they surrender and dumped on a plate, probably some time in the 1970s.

Yes @Okbussitout eating boiled regular potatoes is a normal thing.
I and everyone I knew are them every single day when I was growing up.

@Okbussitout

I'm confused as to what people are talking about. Boiled new potatoes with skin on is a common food. But I've never had a boiled regular potato. Is this a thing? Or are people talking about new potatoes?

Yes it's a thing. It's a "normal" potato, peeled and then boiled. I was given them regularly when I lived at home in the 60's, 70's and early 80's. My mum was a terrible cook though.

Think pasta with added flavour, vitamins and minerals.

@Catterpillar

Yes *@Okbussitout* eating boiled regular potatoes is a normal thing. I and everyone I knew are them every single day when I was growing up.

Thanks. I've never heard of this. Do you mind me asking where you grew up and how old you are? I'm 35 and from the North East. I've never come across this before.

@MasterBeth and @knittingaddict I'm wondering if it was slightly before my time then?

@SapphosRock

Boring boiled potatoes can be transformed into delicious mashed potatoes in literally 30 seconds with a bit of butter and milk.

Why on earth would people not do this?

Well of course, but that's not what op means, is it. I make my own mash when I can be bothered, but the finished result is nothing like a plain boiled potato.

[quote Okbussitout]**@MasterBeth* and @knittingaddict* I'm wondering if it was slightly before my time then?[/quote]
I'm 57 if that helps. My children are in their 30's and would never have had a plain boiled potato.

Yuk - the gruel version of potatoes.
Had them most days growing up and as a consequence didn’t buy any potatoes after leaving home for a good 10 years.