To think It's not THAT odd to order a baked potato instead of chips, with a burger?

[Marygoround22]

Went for a pub lunch with my friend on Sunday.
Ordered a burger and asked for baked potato instead of chips.
I just don't favour the chips in this particular pub, and it saves fat/calories.

When my lunch arrived my friend was aghast (not exaggerating) kept repeatedly telling me how odd it was, that 'burgers go with chips that's that!' and 'You can order a baked potato on the menu anyway, so that's like you've got TWO meals!'
I see the point there but, a baked potato has fewer calories than a portion of chips, so doesn't that sort of negate that point at least?

I had the same comment a few years ago on a work do too-although they just made one comment rather than repeated ones.

There's a pub near me that offers any side with a burger, including baked potatoes, whereas most places I have to ask for a swap.

I kind of proved my friends' point in this pub on Sunday though, because the burger came with guacamole and roast veg on it, and I couldn't fit it into my mouth so I used them as a topping for the potato so I suppose that DID make it into two meals in the end!

I never eat the chips with a burger, might pick one or two. I dont really like jackets. I think the chip crunch contrasts with the burger texture. Whereas a jacket is mushy, mushy potatoe eith a chewy burger feels like too much mush so would be weird for me but if someone i was with ordered that I would just not even think about it as other peoples food preferences are not my business :)

If you’re counting calories then surely you need a salad not more carbs?

I think you need to raise the standards of the company you keep and the conversations that you have with them 😂😂😂 but this has made my evening tbh. Creased.

Quite

I like a jacket potion with steak if that helps.

Potato!!!

A few years ago I was out with friends for lunch & one of them ordered a burger with baked potato instead of chips. It was a small cafe, just one guy doing everything & he looked a bit unsure when she placed her order.

When the food arrived, she got her baked potato - with the burger (in a roll) chopped up & on top of it. Unusual way to serve it - but she said it was delicious!!

I can't believe that this thread is still going!

@020LOLZ not quite 'making a scene' but expressing in a louder voice than normal about how odd it was and how 'burger is CHIPS! That's that!' 'I can't believe you!' etc etc.

@Icannoteven true-I find chips filling too though? I did/do find it difficult in the respects you mean-wanting to concentrate on one and not the other and which to eat first! (this is becoming a far more complicated 'transaction' in my head now.

@VeryHappyBunny yes, there is a place near me that does that, for that very reason-offers JP with some meals instead of chips as the chips are fried with some meat products.

Yes, a burger in a bun IS a sandwich isn't it? I think even the McDonald's menu lists them as sandwiches or at least used to.

That 'care home' is sounding worse and worse!

@Cityandmakeup I have probably been doing it (on and off) longer than even that!

@Minikievs I have done that before when I didn't have the option to swap. Just had a couple of the chips but then I feel guilty for wasting food. Better if I can ask someone else if they'd like my chips.

I understand about textures/not wanting to concentrate on both items at once-but doesn't that issue arise anywhere else? Roast dinners for example?

I am not 'counting calories' when I eat out per se, more so choosing the healthier option/avoiding fried food.

It has put me off eating out with her again if I am honest. luckily it isn't a common occurrence.

@Nel1234 really?! Why just why?!

@NorthOfTheBastardWall It is fewer calories than chips but also I try to avoid fried food generally-chips are just so bad for you. As for the rest I don't understand your post, sorry? Do what for attention?

I thought one of the things about burger and chips is they are supposed to be finger food.

Baked potato isn't really finger food. Unless you try to cram each half in your mouth all at once. Or maybe try to gnaw out the inside like you are chewing on a slice of watermelon leaving the soggy skin plastered to your face.

But if so what happens to the filling ?

I prefer to pick a burger up, but sometimes it just isn't possible as they often have so much sauce/garnishes on them that fall out all over the place. I usually end up eating at least some of it with my fork.

Steak with baked potato is a common option.

I wouldn’t have a BP with all it’s usual ‘full meal’ toppings alongside a burger in a bun, and that would negate to fat reduction aim anyway.

And v rude to comment extensively on someone else’s food when out for a meal.

I found it rude. And embarrassing-definitely not something I'd ever do!

I didn't have anything on it other than seasoning and the bits that fell out of my burger topping.

It’s no one’s business what someone else eats.

@Marygoround22 Not excellent, but in about 15 mins I am leaving here for good. Leaving the home, leaving the town, leaving the county and going far, far away - well about 250+ miles away. Got a (very) little place near the coast, all on my own and I can't wait. Just going to fill up with petrol and snacks for the journey, finger food! Staying in a good hotel overnight and trekking off in the morning. I won't believe it until I'm there. So this really is the start of my new life. Very different from the old one but hey ho better than this one.

Whatever you do in life, eat jacket potatoes with your burgers and burgers with your hands or a knife and fork, none of it matters as long as you don't end up somewhere like this.

I don’t think it’s that odd at all. It’s not unusual at all to have steak and a jacket potato so why so for a burger? Excepting the fact that it’s in a bun unlike a steak, but if the bun was the reason surely a burger and chips would also be weird?

Your life sounds very intriguing, @VeryHappyBunny ! Glad you're escaping what sounds hellish.

And yes, chips are a huge pile of carbs too aren't they, so what's the big deal of having them in potato form instead? Less fat and not eating anything fried in gunky oil can only be a good thing IMO-although of course I don't judge anyone who goes for the 'traditional' burger and chips option.

I had a McPlant once. Not usually a McDonald's fan at all but was at a friends after an event and feeling famished. I HAD to eat that with a knife and fork. So sloppy, it was barely a sandwich at all. Everything would've fallen out and I'd have been covered in sauce, had I picked it up.

I got here just before 7.30pm, checked into an hotel until I get my new place done up a bit. Had a salad and 3 small jacket potatoes and thought about you all. Pint of lager and watched the footie. I'm not sure my heart can take much more, I'm on borrowed time as it is. Anyway the rest of my life starts here.

Well good luck with it all! And I am now debating the oddities involved in having three small jacket potatoes and a salad, rather than the original subject of the thread!

Why is it weird though?

then again anything goes in my house. I’ve served a jacket spud with pizza before now or with lasagna especially when I was skint or trying to use things up. I’ve served it with stew as well. One of mine hates mash but loves jacket spuds and both aren’t keen on chips 🤷‍♀️

It's only weird because we have been brainwashed to only gave certain foods as combinations, and to only eat foods at set times.

Why can't we eat lasagne for breakfast?

Noone's stopping you.

I didn't say anyone's personally stopping me.

I said marketing companies tell us: that we can only eat cereal, toast, eggs etc for breakfast.

It's brainwashing by advertising.

Everywhere you go , you see most people eating cereal for breakfast. Because they have been told that its a breakfast food.

When it's probably one of the worst foods to have at the start of the day for energy.

I couldn't eat a JP AND a burger. If I was having a burger and chips I'd probably only have a couple of chips anyway - the burger is the main meal just as JP is a main meal.

Ynbu.

I know of at least one large restaurant chain that gives the option of swapping and one of the options is a jacket potato.

A filled jacket potato is different to just a jacket with butter, do not two meals. Filled jackets tend to be larger than ones given as a side. They also have a portion of filling, that you didn't have.

I see jacket with butter as not really that different to having mashed potato.

Nothing wrong in having jacket as a side with a burger. I am 51, and can remember having jacket with burger ( and probably baked beans) on holiday as a child- probably around age 12, so 40 years ago.

I have had jacket with burger many times since, both at restaurants and at home.