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?

Boiled potatoes are only nice cold, cubed and mixed with sour cream and chives - potato salad.

I’m irish and I grew up eating boiled potatoes with dinner every night.

My parents are old school and they still have meat, veg & boiled potatoes every day! Mum might have a chinese takeaway once a week but Dad doesn’t think it’s a real dinner unless it includes boiled potatoes!

People are getting very snooty about potatoes these days.

Boiled new potatoes with butter and and parsley and a wedge of lemon are lovely. I don't think there's anything boring about them!

@tobee

People are getting very snooty about potatoes these days.

It's not snooty to say you dont like something. Boiled potatoes happen to be something a fair few people dislike.

Nicely cooked normal spuds yes not very gourmet but ffs I couldnt be arsed is that a crime?! Is it so wrong to have them sometimes I quite like them

So were they white potatoes, peeled, chopped and boiled? I'm not a fan of new potatoes boiled, but boiling peeled and chopped potatoes seems sooooo wrong. Plus potatoes are just stodge aren't they? They don't count as one of your five a day, so I would have just served the salmon encroute with peas and carrots.

I put a knob of butter in the pan when they're cooked. Add a pinch of salt and chilli flakes then sort of pan fry with the lid on as I bash them about.......makes them lovely and crispy and doesn't use loads of butter either.

I’ve never had a plain boiled potato. Mashed potatoes, yes or boiled new potatoes with butter and sea salt. I’d feel like a just boiled potato wasn’t finished off.

If they are complaining I would say you are spoiling them.

You don't need to mash their potatoes. They need to be willing to wield the masher themselves.

Lol come to think of it, I've never served a potato without something to jazz it up, why not a knob of butter on top?

The only way boiled potatoes are edible is if served cold in a salad with a tonne of mayo, or hot but swimming in butter with a shit load of salt and pepper, but if they're going to be that unhealthy you may as well make mash instead because that's actually nice!!

Never serve boiled potatoes, remember my best friend's granny serving them to me in the 1980's and even then I thought it was weird!

I’m afraid I would hate them (and leave them) I like baby or new potatoes in skins, but just boiled remind me of grim school dinners in the 80’s.

I haven't had a boiled "adult" potato since school. Even at school, they were served with chopped parsley and butter.

The cuisine at school was so bad that they had to bring in a team of nutritionists to redesign the menu after my A-level biology class did a oral zinc taste test as an experiment and found we all had major zinc deficiency. Not that that is linked to the boiled potatoes other than in my mind. It was just that the food was so horrible, we all lived on junk from the tuck shop.

I'm not a fan of boiled potatoes. I don't serve them as I don't eat them myself, because I grew up eating the bloody things seven days a week!

I love all kinds of spud.

Maybe tell your ungrateful lot they can cook next time.

What do you mean by “nice” though?

Even if they’re literally just boiled, no seasoning, some varieties taste better than others.

Boiled potatoes in my house means flavoursome new potatoes or salad potatoes, in their skin, with butter.

Actually less effort that the awful tasteless waxy peeled bland potatoes of my childhood!

I don't remember the last time I had a boiled potato , in primary school maybe? Im assuming you mean regular potatoes rather than new or jerseys.

I'd rather go without than have them now.

Boiled potatoes are lovely. If anyone doesn't like them, they can go fancy on their own plate and make crushed potatoes by whacking them with the back of their fork and putting a bit of olive oil and salt on them. Job done!

Meanwhile I will be here with the butter for mine.

We have them a lot with the skins on. Two of mine prefer them to mash.

Little ones mostly tho, or a fresh bag. Not a manky old bag that’s been knocking about at the back of the cupboard.

I think OP means these borefests but PPs think she means nice new potatoes/baby potatoes.

My kids were like this - indeed as young adults they still are! but as a pp suggests, the solution is withkn their grasp. With mine (when they still lived here) was I would say 'were having potatoes' & get them started, a child would take over and fry or mash them. But yadnbu, they don't get to complain about someone else's cooking without the go-to reply ' well you are free to cook tea'

Boiled new potatoes - ok
Boiled peeled potatoes - gross

@Thesunrising

Boiled potatoes are amazing. Slathered in salt and dipped in brown sauce. I always boil more than I need and pop them in the fridge to have as snack potatoes.

Yes! A cold boiled potato from the fridge with a bit of salt on it. Lovely.

i can see both sides of this Op.
i would prefer plain boiled rice with that meal, and it's just as easy to prepare, easier, as no peeling/ washing.
as a child i found the texture of plain boiled potatoes difficult, still do a bit, esp the floury ones which irish people think are the best.
they seem difficult to swallow to me. the texture, stresses me.
i like new potatoes, anything with a sharp edge when you cut it, cooked.