Potatoes

rolf_f
rolf_f Posts: 16,015
edited September 2011 in Commuting chat
Is there any greater foodstuff? OK, it might be a bit dull in its own right but you can do so much with a potato. Where would the world be without potatoes? I tried to imagine a potatoless world and it wasn't good........
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,816
    I'd rather do with potatoes than water.......
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Is there a greater food stuff? Surely you've seen the cheese thread?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    What are you, Irish?







    :shock: Can't believe I sad that
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Cheesy Chips

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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    I had potatoes for lunch.

    They were cut into chip shapes and then dropped into boiling hot beef dripping until cooked through. I then applied salt and vinegar liberally and ate them with a tiny wooden fork whilst sat in a sunny park.

    How about that?
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    Shatiiing!
  • davmaggs
    davmaggs Posts: 1,008
    I do wonder what people actually ate before potatoes, bananas and pasta arrived in Britain or drank before tea and coffee turned up
  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    davmaggs wrote:
    I do wonder what people actually ate before potatoes, bananas and pasta arrived in Britain or drank before tea and coffee turned up

    McDonald's and Coke.
  • Underscore
    Underscore Posts: 730
    davmaggs wrote:
    I do wonder what people actually ate before potatoes, bananas and pasta arrived in Britain or drank before tea and coffee turned up

    Parsnips were our staple source of starch, pre-potato, I am (possibly even reliably) informed.

    Pre tea and coffee, dunno... beer?

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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,816
    essex-commuter wrote:
    McDonald's and Coke.
    Clearly without 'fries'....

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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    spuds were introduced around 1550 I believe so before that it would have been a medieval diet - like the attached

    http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/ ... facts.html
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    davmaggs wrote:
    I do wonder what people actually ate before potatoes, bananas and pasta arrived in Britain

    mud
    davmaggs wrote:
    or drank before tea and coffee turned up

    wet mud
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,935
    I saw something on the telly last night about ration-era recipes, which included one for mock chocolate truffles made from mashed potato :shock:

    http://kitchenmade.blogspot.com/2010/05/ration-book-cooking-project.html
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    davmaggs - if you are genuinely interested then this is a very interesting book.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-travellers ... 0224079948
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  • Daz555
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    In pre-famine Ireland the average labouring male munched his way through 14lbs of potatoes per day.

    :shock: :?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Mash with cheese. Or roasted with or without cheese.

    While chips are great and all I don't think "potatoes" when eating them.

    not sure why, must be a DDDism.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Are fries potato? Really?

    I agree that the humble potato is a vastly underrrrrated dish. A roast dinner without roasties Pah!
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    clarkey cat wrote:
    I had potatoes for lunch.

    They were cut into chip shapes and then dropped into boiling hot beef dripping until cooked through. I then applied salt and vinegar liberally and ate them with a tiny wooden fork whilst sat in a sunny park.

    How about that?

    Where in London did you get chips fried in beef dripping?
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    fryer's delight
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  • davmaggs
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    clarkey cat wrote:
    davmaggs - if you are genuinely interested then this is a very interesting book.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-travellers ... 0224079948

    Nice one, I'm going to get that.

    I found the Victorian farm series very interesting and even though only a 100ish years have passed it became obvious very quickly that modern skills, knowledge, and physical endurance would be almost useless if you went back in time to be a lay person at that time. The 14th century would be horrendous.
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    I like early medieval history the best. The 12th century appears to have been particularly brutish what with the civil war and the ensuing anarchy all jizzing itself up into Thomas a Beckett getting chopped and going down all martyr like. Well interesting like. And not a spud in sight.
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  • rjsterry
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    Indeed, I take it you caught some of the recent dramatisation of Ken Follett's The Pillars of The Earth. Offing your immediate relatives to remove rivals seems to have been almost an everyday occurrence.
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  • Agent57
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    I think the medieval feeling is a large part of what I am finding so compelling about A Song of Ice and Fire (started reading with Game of Thrones in July, and just started Feast for Crows).
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  • CrackFox
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    Agent57 wrote:
    I think the medieval feeling is a large part of what I am finding so compelling about A Song of Ice and Fire (started reading with Game of Thrones in July, and just started Feast for Crows).

    HBO's adaptation is epic. Super massive Dinklage.

    Re. potatoes, there's something creepy about the way they sprout. Especially when they get really long. Ugh.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    What are you, Irish?

    Whats your point ......!? :twisted:
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  • Applespider
    Applespider Posts: 506
    notsoblue wrote:
    Where in London did you get chips fried in beef dripping?

    Hawksmoor do them too and they're gorgeous. Skip the double-fried variety they do and just go for the dripping ones. Mmmmmmm....

    But no, potatoes aren't the ultimate. I can go weeks without eating a potato. Eggs are the greatest foodstuff - oodles of protein and you could easily eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner, served in different ways... scrambled for breakfast, egg mayo in sarnies for lunch, made into cake for afternoon snacks, souffle or omelette for dinner and then meringues or custard for pudding...
  • itboffin
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    Daz555 wrote:
    In pre-famine Ireland the average labouring male munched his way through 14lbs of potatoes per day.

    :shock: :?

    Er what now 14lbs you must have a . missing, who eats 14lbs of anything in a day? a week perhaps but still v unlikely.
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  • joelsim
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    Applespider wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    Where in London did you get chips fried in beef dripping?

    Hawksmoor do them too and they're gorgeous. Skip the double-fried variety they do and just go for the dripping ones. Mmmmmmm....

    But no, potatoes aren't the ultimate. I can go weeks without eating a potato. Eggs are the greatest foodstuff - oodles of protein and you could easily eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner, served in different ways... scrambled for breakfast, egg mayo in sarnies for lunch, made into cake for afternoon snacks, souffle or omelette for dinner and then meringues or custard for pudding...

    You're kidding, give me a potato over an egg anyday.

    We're both wrong actually. Choux buns with chocolate and cream are the greatest ever foodstuff. I start feeling sick after two grapefruit sized ones though, and it's impossible to leave the second one in the packet in the fridge.
  • Applespider
    Applespider Posts: 506
    And you wouldn't have the choux bun without eggs in the pastry... I rest my case, m'lud. :wink:
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    You've obviously never tasted potato choux buns have you. They are lovely.

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