Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

Always called them jacket potatoes and I m from a very working class background The menus around here call them jacket potatoes too
i too would expect a baked potato to be peeled and in the oven
A jacket potato has its jacket still on

Creamed potatoes are posh mash aren’t they ?

Just looked it ypup:

Mashed potatoes - mashed with butter and a little milk, mashed with a potato masher

Creamed potatoes - ditto but processed for longer, perhaps with cream and mixed with an electric mixer.

I think they go too gloopy if over-processed.

For mash get Smash!

The ready prepared ones, never seen the point,McCain etc call them jacket potatoes.

BlueBelle

Always called them jacket potatoes and I m from a very working class background The menus around here call them jacket potatoes too
i too would expect a baked potato to be peeled and in the oven
A jacket potato has its jacket still on

Tell that to the 'baked potato' shops - never seen one yet which calls itself a jacket potato shop.

I call them Jacket potatoes, my partner calls them baked potatoes. They are lovely and taste the same whatever name we call them.

MissInterpreted

BlueBelle

Always called them jacket potatoes and I m from a very working class background The menus around here call them jacket potatoes too
i too would expect a baked potato to be peeled and in the oven
A jacket potato has its jacket still on

Tell that to the 'baked potato' shops - never seen one yet which calls itself a jacket potato shop.

Here’s Wetherspoons 2024 menu

Callistemon21 - I suppose creamed potatoes is a fancier name for what are what I'd call whipped potatoes.

Callistemon21

Who said anything about cleaning
Please don’t swear 🙏

Interesting discussion. I thought that I have always called them baked potatoes but now that jacket potatoes have been mentioned I am not so sure. Jacket potatoes does ring a tiny bell from my childhood. I consulted Mr P and he insists on ^ baked^. Personally, I care not a jot so long as they are filled with something delicious.

And I think Dauphinoise basically is from the region where gratins were/are popular?
I'm not well up on where fancier names come from.

I love a wonderful baked potato .. For us, it is un-important what they are called. They are delicious if roasted or baked to their correct texture.

I enjoy a Tsp. of Room temperature Asturian or French butter and a sprinkle of salt and black freshly ground pepper.

Though once in awhile, I also like "pizza toppings" inside the baked potato .. Mozzarella di buffala, Parmesano, anchovies, cherry tomatoes and olives or capers.

Fun once in awhile ..

I can send you menus from all our local cafes and eateries Missinterpreted and all call them Jacket Pototoes

Maybe it depends where you come from I m not living in a posh town perhaps that the difference

Sorry Callistemon21 I see you have answered yourself!

... and I do like Hasselbacks now and again...
Yum.

BlueBelle

MissInterpreted

BlueBelle

Always called them jacket potatoes and I m from a very working class background The menus around here call them jacket potatoes too
i too would expect a baked potato to be peeled and in the oven
A jacket potato has its jacket still on

Tell that to the 'baked potato' shops - never seen one yet which calls itself a jacket potato shop.

Here’s Wetherspoons 2024 menu

Very true !!!

If Wetherspoons call them jacket potatoes that settles the argument - the posh name is baked potatoes .

All eating places consider it de riguer to call them jackets though.

I call them either, depends on the day.
It’s a good day for them today as they are comfort food with butter and grated cheddar.

BlueBelle

MissInterpreted

BlueBelle

Always called them jacket potatoes and I m from a very working class background The menus around here call them jacket potatoes too
i too would expect a baked potato to be peeled and in the oven
A jacket potato has its jacket still on

Tell that to the 'baked potato' shops - never seen one yet which calls itself a jacket potato shop.

Here’s Wetherspoons 2024 menu

I wasn't talking about the likes of Wetherspoons - I was talking about the shops which only sell filled baked potatoes.

Like this...

We don’t have any baked potato shops here Misinterpreted but all our menus posh or pub, list them as jacket potatoes
Just saying

I used to have lunch at a baked potato shop in Cambridge many years ago. I haven’t seen one since (must get out more). I suppose if I was having people other than family round and was serving baked potatoes I might possibly say jacket to impress - but that ain’t likely to happen.

Jacket & Jill’s have a potato stand at Glastonbury.

Is this a North/South thing?

Growing up in Manchester we had jacket potatoes - I’ve never given it a second’s thought until reading this thread and realise that I generally use the term baked potatoes now. 🤷‍♀️

BlueBelle

We don’t have any baked potato shops here Misinterpreted but all our menus posh or pub, list them as jacket potatoes
Just saying

Well that's me told then. Bowing out - once again!