Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

Marmin

I always do three more potatoes when having baked. They go in with the leeks to make soup the next day. Makes a big difference: in a good way!

I’m trying to steer clear of bread, so I often microwave a couple of jacket potatoes to slice when cold and fry in just a film of oil, to have with e.g. scrambled egg. (Only one at a time, I’m not quite that much of a 🐷).

I suppose your Posh friends
( Baked , Jacket )(Potatoes
Had Mink Coats on

Clever 😂! I like that!! I also like baked potatoes 😊! Fun cheery up thread!

Well I'm common too! Baked Potato for me. If that's all she's got to worry about...???? 🤣🤣🤣

They are potatoes baked in their jackets. Your friend is a silly snob!

Jacket or baked is absolutely fine, baked certainly isn’t considered common in our home!

Not so tasty when microwaved, but a potato, not wrapped up in foil, skin rubbed with butter, topped with lots of cheese, (none of those mucky beans please) is a simple joy.

and filled skins used to be a menu option too.
don't see that so much now.

The baked jacket/skin is my favourite part and there’s no way I’d be leaving a tasty oven baked skin on the plate 😋

what distinguishes said potatoes is that the jacket is left on, they are cooked entire, so you get the option of eating the jacket as well as soft inner.
so that's the selling point, i think.
those who like to eat the jackets, or are hungrier, get their money's worth.
if someone doesn't want to eat the jacket, they can just eat the inner, and leave an empty jacket behind on the plate.
and the wondrous fillings ! who could resist.

that's a point; to me baked sounds more like roasted.
but i am not a foodie . . .

I call them baked potatoes, but DD’s say jacket potatoes.On menus they always say jacket, I think it makes it clearer to customers what they will actually be getting.

Haven't heard of this !
I think that I call them baked and I used to call them jacket , because baked has replaced jacket in every day use where I live .

If your friend is so posh - she wouldn't actually mention the word common !
Perhaps , she's half baked !

I’ve just checked and our school menu offers baked jacket potatoes obviously catering for both the common and posh among us.

In the West Country we always called them baked potatoes. Then the word "jacket" started to creep into the vocabulary somewhere around the late 70's.

I'm not sure if the word was imported from America or was adopted from another region of the UK. Or perhaps it was the result of a marketing ploy by someone invested in potatoes.

At first we weren't sure exactly what it meant but certainly by the mid 80's it had become common parlance amongst younger people.

Most people my age and older (I'm 67) still refer to it as a baked potato but would use the word "jacket" if ordering in a restaurant or speaking to someone younger because otherwise it causes confusion.

They are sold as "baking potatoes" and I consider this to be the correct word.

GrandmaKT

Witzend

NotSpaghetti

I remember a baked potato shop in Edinburgh "Spud-U-Like" when I first visited in 1974. It was fabulous for a lover of baked potatoes.

I wonder if it still exists?

I’m sure I remember our beloved Victoria Wood mentioning Spud-u-like and saying she felt it ought to be pronounced as if it were a Greek word, that was what she felt it (sort of) looked like.

So Spudyoulickay IYSWIM.

Oh yes! And didn't Harry Enfield's characters Wayne and Waynetta Slob call their baby Spudulika?!!

I remember the baby being called Frogmella - did they have another one ?

It all depends on the weather whether they’re baked or have a jacket on

Not sure, I use both. Probably more baked. Actually I part microwave them first before they go in the oven- micro baked ?

Wow!
Thanks everyone.
I had no idea it was the first of many.

It was revolutionary as far as I was concerned.
Happy happy days.

Witzend

NotSpaghetti

I remember a baked potato shop in Edinburgh "Spud-U-Like" when I first visited in 1974. It was fabulous for a lover of baked potatoes.

I wonder if it still exists?

I’m sure I remember our beloved Victoria Wood mentioning Spud-u-like and saying she felt it ought to be pronounced as if it were a Greek word, that was what she felt it (sort of) looked like.

So Spudyoulickay IYSWIM.

Oh yes! And didn't Harry Enfield's characters Wayne and Waynetta Slob call their baby Spudulika?!!

welbeck

when i was young, potatoes used to be boiled in their skins, and put on the table, or taken from the saucepan by each eater, with a fork, and then deftly peeled with the knife.
these were called potatoes in their jackets.

Some of the older generation in Sweden (and Norway I believe) eat potatoes like that.

My OH is Swedish and always eats them that way. After 30+ years, I've almost got the hang of it.

I always thought that baked potatoes were British and jacket potatoes were the American version.
I'm not overly fond of either incarnation.

NotSpaghetti

I remember a baked potato shop in Edinburgh "Spud-U-Like" when I first visited in 1974. It was fabulous for a lover of baked potatoes.

I wonder if it still exists?

that was the original Spud-U-Like,
later there were hundreds of them.
haven't seen them for a while.
was a brilliant idea.

NotSpaghetti

I remember a baked potato shop in Edinburgh "Spud-U-Like" when I first visited in 1974. It was fabulous for a lover of baked potatoes.

I wonder if it still exists?

I’m sure I remember our beloved Victoria Wood mentioning Spud-u-like and saying she felt it ought to be pronounced as if it were a Greek word, that was what she felt it (sort of) looked like.

So Spudyoulickay IYSWIM.

GrandmaKT

I'm wondering about these Baked Potato shops? Don't think we have any in our town - do they just sell baked potatoes? (With different fillings I presume). Is it a chain?

Yes, they sell baked potatoes and you can choose whichever fillings you want. There used to be a chain called Spud-u-Like, but the ones I know of are independent shops.