Tinned potatoes...

[Firstdateshotel]

I've recently discovered tinned potatoes... Aibu to say they are deeeeelicious????

Trapped potatoes 🤣

I put them in a stew and were surprised that they were absolutely fine!!

Oh I like to fry off some chopped bacon and leek in butter then add thinly sliced tinned potatoes, my go to "skint at the end of the month" meal. My adult daughter mentioned a few months back she has memories of me cooking it and that she misses it since becoming Vegan as it was one of her comfort dishes. Also will put a layer of them in oven dish with halved cherry toms, basil, thyme, garlic, olive oil and balsamic vinegar then roast for 30-45 minutes, lovely.

@pigsDOfly

Really? Well they must have changed somewhat since I last had them, admittedly, some years ago.

Tasteless and watery, with an odd sort of texture somewhere between soggy and hard - difficult to explain, but not a good thing - and bearing absolutely no relationship to 'real' potatoes.

Totally agree! I still have nightmares about them, being forced to eat them as a child, urgh grotesque weird tasting things and the consistency was all wrong 🤢

@Firstdateshotel you should check out the Snack Hacker's French Market Potato recipe. It's on YouTube/Insta/TikTok. I haven't tried it yet but I'm planning to.

My husband calls them emergency potatoes. It’d have to be one heck of an emergency for me to even consider putting one in my mouth. Not sure why but they just seem vile to me. Totally irrational as I eat other tinned vegetables quite happily.

Roast them they are so versatile

I saw Nadia Hussain roasting them on TV and was astonished and meant to try this to save time on peeling but never got round to it. I will do now after reading this thread!

It was the only potato I could eat when I was pregnant with my daughter who is now 34. I had to explain this to her Dad, the ex, as I couldn't bear cooking any potatoes.

They are OK. I haven't chosen to have them in since. If you like eating them. Nothing wrong with that

Have they improved since the 70’s ?

My nanny would cook them in the tin and tinned peas and carrots when making a roast (would also have roast potatoes, home make Yorkshire pudding how she fitted everything into her tiny oven I don’t know)

I love tinned potatoes!

Omg- I am still traumatized as a kid having to eat these tinned things. My mum even used to take them down to our caravan holiday in the south of France 😂😂😂

I bought some during lockdown found them other week in cupboard so used them, didnt like them at all a weird sort of taste.Never again.

I bloody love them! Always have since I was a kid. My favourite “quick & easy” meal if I’m not bothering to cook properly is fish fingers, tinned potatoes & spaghetti! Mmmmmm

@Maximum71 are you me?! My mum also did this on our annual French caravan holiday although I loved them. Likewise tinned peas.. I can actually recall their exact taste. Amazing. I suspect it was the crazy salt levels I liked 🤣.

Haven't eaten them in 30 years though, and I suspect my household would be horrified by them!

I use tinned potatoes for roast potatoes. So quick.

Just heated out of the tin, they're...less than ideal. But cooked in any of the ways mentioned, or added to other things, and they come into their own. The texture allows them to hold up well during additional cooking, they don't fall apart into mush.

I see your tinned potatoes, and I raise you rice in a can! A staple of my childhood. I cringe when I think about it now, but used to love it as a child.

dainty.ca/rice-products/?type=rice-in-a-can

@armanted

Special visitor's tea in the 60's. Tinned salmon sandwiches, then tinned peaches with tinned cream. No wonder we had a wall mounted can opener.

That takes me back, it was our Sunday afternoon tea. Sometimes my mother would make a fruit cake on a Sunday for tea - no weighing scales so it would be rock hard with burnt sultanas poking out of it and you'd need a cup of tea with it to help it down your gullet. Happy days.

I use them in curries and frittatas. Will try some of the other ideas on here though.

I love chicken in white sauce. Its great as a pie fillibg but i mostly have with rice. One of my comfort foods. Tinned potatoes in a corned beef hash, yum.

I had a dream about the tinned potato salad recently. I was eating it on ritz crackers.

And also reading a book set in 1920s at the moment where the characters eat a lot of 'salade russe' although this is not tinned.

memories of caravan holidays when I was little
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Don't often eat potatoes so dimly recall tinned spuds being OK if
roasted or fried but not something I'd rave about. Frozen mash, on the other hand, is brilliant stuff. Useful for visitors and tastes fine.

My mum always added a knob of butter to tinned peas, and if I got in late as a teenager, I'd nip into the kitchen, heat up a tin of peas, then take a bowlful up to bed!

I loved them when I was a kid - straight out of the tin cold. Then when I hit adolescence I found even the smell of them nauseated me.

But I'm menopausal now... maybe I should give them another try and see if it was just a weird hormone thing.