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?

Lol. Any old potato will do me with bit of butter and salt. 😁
Funny how I neber really make them, but when I cook them for Christmas salad suddenly I want to eat them all🙄 I have to cook few extra

I love boiled new potatoes with butter and salt. I like them best when they have gone cold. Delicious!

Weird recipe perhaps but went down a treat when I was a child was a saucepan of boiled potatoes (peeled), and chop up a white onion finely and mix it in with butter and salt. It adds a crunch texture to the mash. Possibly not to everyone's taste judging by the previous posts on this thread, but they are very nutritious actually.

@typicalvalues Ah but you can use Smash for that, or Aunt Bessie's mash (which is awesome.) The type of potatoes often used in boiled potatoes doen't necessarily make the best mash.

I do get 'tinned potatoes' sometimes, for convenience. As I said earler, they're ok as Bombay. They're also ok as part of a curry in general.

I mean, boiled is defo the worst way but a bit of butter and grated cheese makes all the difference, I think.

I grew up eating them but I haven’t willingly eaten them since the 90s. You have to smother them with gravy to make them edible. New or baby new potatoes are easier to prep (no peeling), have more nutrients in them (because you don’t peel them!), more fibre (peel again!) and are just so much nicer.

Potatoes to me are far tastier than pasta or rice and they are more nutritious.

With the ops meal I'd maybe put butter and parsley on too.

Boiled potatoes are fine but it helps to cook them perfectly - not too hard and not too mushy - and pep them up a bit with butter, herbs or similar.

Oh don't forget the salt.

I quite like boiled spuds.
2 DSs will not eat them or mash, but like roasties-chips-crisps lots.

If you are cooking, then you can do whatever you like.

We had boiled potatoes last week. Skin on. Covered in garlic salt and butter.
DC are welcome to mash them on their plates if they wish.

I have boiled potatoes (not peeled) several times a week. Nothing wrong with them.

Sorry op but yuck. I would never willingly eat boiled potatoes, new or otherwise. My mum used to serve them when I was a child and I left them on the plate if I could get away with it.

With a bit of butter on them. Far nicer than rice (yuk) or pasta.

Of course YANBU.
If that is all you served, night after night, then it would be different.

That said, all my (adult) dc have a dislike of boiled potatoes. As in, will whinge about them but then eat them. The solution really is pretty simple, if they want to mash them, they can.

In our family though, the mantra for a good 10 years now has been - well, if you aren't keen, then don't cook them when you6 are cooking the meal. If you feel really^ strongly, then step up and do my turn at cooking as well as your own. I mean, I'm not that keen on cous cous, which one of my dc loves, but I figure that if a meal is put in front of me, I thank the person who cooked it, and eat it.

Oh - strange italicising there. Sorry.

They're also really good for bowel movements!

@truthisalie

Lunde, exactly. Boiled potatoes are so versatile. I think some people either don't know how to eat them or have never tried good tasty potatoes. Good potato variety is even tasty on its own.

Absolutely

Big slightly overcooked floury boiled potatoes, maybe with grey bits here and there are one of the wretched signifiers of my 70s and 80s childhood. (Maybe with mince - cooked with half an onion - and some frozen peas or limp cabbage).

Genuinely can’t believe the poster who said that rejection of this grim staple for something with more flavour, interest, spice, crispiness was a sign of 21st century decadence, low moral standards or something.

And as for the poster who has roast and boiled potatoes on the same plate, in this way madness lies.

Yes, growing up there were "nice" potatoes and boiled potatoes. It isnt that boiled potatoes are disgusting. They are just.... there.
Not saying you were unreasonable to serve them. Good for the character probably.

@WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo

We had boiled potatoes last week. Skin on. Covered in garlic salt and butter. DC are welcome to mash them on their plates if they wish.

If you are serving mashable boiled potatoes then you have fucked them up.

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz my comment was meant to be lighthearted. I obviously failed.

My mum only even cooked boiled potatoes and chicken tonight. Rank! I’d never make boiled potatoes! New pots with butter and mint,roasties,chips,mash, potatoes waffles. Anything but a sad white boiled spud

If you served them EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. my answer would be different. But occasionally? I don't see the problem. One question...is there butter and salt and pepper on the table? If not, PUT THEM THERE! If they are there, tell them to shut up and have at it.

@MasterBeth how so? And don't be so rude!

It might have taken a bit of effort to mash them but they could have been mashed if one so wished. They were fucking delicious. Not fucked up at all.