Potato potato potato

Glad it's not just me Lona

oh dear daisy oh dear.

dusty I haven't stopped singing that song since last Sunday when bags put the link up!
It's driving me mad !!!!

(Scene) Cambridge market

Customer: 3 kilos of potatoes please.

Vegetable stall holder: OK love, I'll give you all the small ones, they'll be easier to carry.

Customer: Oh thank you.

And nobody actually says 'potahto'...do they?

Reading this thread is why we had jacket potatoes last night, after DH had said to me "Do you have to keep singing that song?"

We used to bake them in the bonfire on Guy Fawkes night!

I am assailed by a sudden memory - of potatoes raked out from the embers of a camp fire in the wood at the bottom of the road... the bits that weren't either raw or charred were delicious - or maybe they just seemed delicious
to the pre-pubescent Feetlebaum!

Oh, I've just read through this whilst eating a couple of toasted spicy buns, and it's convinced me it's jacket spuds, not veg curry this evening. I love potatoes, in all their different guises. Mashed potato is such comfort food, jersey royals at the start of the new spud season, Maris Pipers for roasting or making into twice cooked oven chips. My mouth is watering. Greatnan's attitude to walking is inspirational. I've always loved to walk, but the onset of RA in my 20's has led me to have osteo arthritis earlier than I'd have hoped. I am convinced if I hadn't walked so much, the hip, knee and foot pain would be so much worse. Plus - it does burn up those calories for those of us who love proper butter in our oven jackets (not microwaved - I agree, the flavour goes and the texture is like blotting paper I feel)

When we went to Florence my DH, of Irish descent, was very excited to discover they did giant ravioli with potato filling

Quite right, Kitty - we need to know!
My potato fix today will be the ones I added to my chicken stew - they will have had a whole day to absorb the flavours!

Haven't tried them yet GN - suppose I'd better - in the interests of research.

Depends on the result - are they nicely brown and crispy?

The new bistro in the village serve triple cooked chips - is that a refinement too far?

anno I might.............

Lona, do you know all my addictions?

Well I've just had some leftover new potatoes sautéed in butter - delicious!

with crunchy salt anno........

Thick cut, twice fried English chips....

But not flabby white English chip shop chips - crispy brown allumettes, with mayonnaise.

Chips.....

AlieOxon I remember being sent to buy 5 lb King Edwards in the 1950s so no, I can't remember a time when potatoes were just potatoes except, perhaps, supermarket potatoes in the 1970s and 1980s. But then I never bought my vegetables anywhere other than a greengrocers or market.

That is a real shame, feetle. I wasted much of my own best years as a hard drinking, overeating couch potato. I was lucky that I had not damaged my organs but I had developed some arthritis and had slightly raised bp. I was 70 when I took up really serious mountain walking, starting quite gradually until I got acclimatised to the altitude - my flat is at 3,600 feet,

@Greatnan - funny thing, I never really relished the idea of walking until it was a tad too late... lack of half a lung, degenerated disks and a lack of balance rather rule it out. And now, of course I'd be happy to go for the odd stroll...

Look at my face......................it's not bovvered!