To think potatoes are the best carb?

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Potatoes - specifically chips followed by roast potatoes and mash, jacket potatoes and hash browns
Followed by bread
Then pasta - specifically spaghetti and cannelloni, rigatoni and lasange are all my faves
Finally rice - amazing too but plain boiled just makes me sad. Rice pilaf, risotto and paella and byriani are amazing but if I had to choose based on the carb source only this would be my ranking.

If you HAD to rate those four carbs, am I being unreasonable?

I'd go potato, pasta, rice (& drop bread as I struggle to digest it).

I mean they're all brilliant aren't they so that's my starting point. Had this very conversation with my best mate last week!

I'm a rice girl tbh. Even plain rice, as long as it's steamed and with a bit of soy sauce or laoganma mmmm... and an egg on mmmmmmm.

So I'm

• rice
• potatoes (especially chippy chips, honourable mention for mash)
• bread (close to being fourth)
• pasta (rigatoni my fave) - to reiterate, I absolutely love pasta.

WIBU to add noodles to the mix? I do love noodles and they might come in at 3rd on the above list if I'm in the mood...

I don't like pasta but otherwise you are spot on

Potato
rice
pasta
bread

potato is king though!

Your order is my order. But I'd sack off rice, even though I love risotto, for more spuds and bread.

Rice, bread, potatoes, pasta dead last.

Carbs are the superior food group, but I’d have to put bread in position number one (although it is a hard decision!)

1st bread - so many delicious kinds. Granary, wholemeal or multiseeded.
Loaves, rolls, baguettes, panini, bagels, crumpets, pittas, naan, rotis
Nothing beats a thick slice of hot toast when it's made from really, good bread (unsliced in a brown paper bag from a bakery, not sliced in a plastic bag from a supermarket)

2nd rice
3rd pasta

Potatoes a very distant 4th. I don't have them often and could easily live without them.

Great thread.

Based on how much I love eating them in all their forms, I'd put potatoes first. BUT they also involve the most prep - mash, roasties, homemade chips, rosti, sautéed, dauphinoise etc all need significantly more effort compared to a bowl of pasta or rice, or a slice of thickly buttered bread. Even the humble jacket potato, whilst zero prep, makes you play the long game when it comes to gratification.

Holy shit I am now starving. How am I supposed to sleep thinking about buttery mashed potatoes??

I honestly don’t know!

I like them all but none of them are amongst my favourite foods. I think maybe bread is my favourite.

I don’t like to go without any carbs, but none of them are a food I couldn’t live without.

Maybe bread, rice, pasta then potatoes

They are definitely the most nutrient dense and filling ones, imho

Pasta is only as good as the sauce it's with

If you are discussing carbs and leaving out "cake" and "chocolate" then I am sad to say that I must register a complaint lol 😂Are truffle fries amazing? Of course. Is buttered toast absolutely sublime? For sure. Is lasagna a delight? for sure; is rice in all its forms (particularly mango sticky rice, and also beer made from rice) majestic? Indeed. But all of them fall by the wayside if someone waves a snickers bar and/or a red velvet cake in my general direction.

Wow I'm surprised at the love for potatoes. I'd rate pasta as top.

Potatoes are so boring.

Pasta first. Then bread. Then potatoes, then rice. Potatoes would’ve upstaged bread but then I remembered pizza exists.

Bread is top!

Then rice

Then potatoes

I hate pasta. Kids food. It makes me sad.

Potatoes rule 🥔👑

Rice every time

See they're my worst carb. I would go rice, bread, pasta then pot

I adore potatoes, not bothered about pasta, rice or bread

Spuds rule!
then bread, rice, pasta.

Jacket potato with a crispy skin, butter and cheese: food of the gods.

If we’re discussing “source” carbs, surely wheat is the source carb of choice as it is the base for bread, pasta and cake!

Potatoes, new, boiled in their skins with mint or baked in the oven or crushed up with a bit of butter (skins on) are my favourites. Also love potato gratin.
Not too keen on rice and loathe pasta - I think the latter are textural issues.
Not a massive fan of sweet potatoes, though, and am glad that the trend for serving sweet potato chips is dying the death as they were always limp, floppy and tasteless.

I completely agree. I grew up in a meat and 2 veg home. Didn't have rice or pasta until late teens. I don't like rice, it's bland and I hate the texture, although I don't mind a tinned rice pudding. Pasta is a weird chewy texture and tasteless unless covered with sauce. I don't mind a baked pasta like cannelloni or lasagne, the crispy cheese on top makes it delicious.
Potatoes are so versatile; cheesy buttery mash, salted chips, crispy jackets, creamy gratin.

Potatoes
Pasta
Rice
Bread

surely potatoes are coming down/have come down in popularity, due to the time they take to cook
they have in my house anyway
perhaps they are worth the wait?
i do like new potatoes as no peeling involved
dont like cous cous