Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

Strange reply, but hey ho, whatever you wish

There's always one who has to have the last word on here, no matter what.

My DGD calls them skin-on potatoes. I’d better sort her out!

Like Welbeck, I consider a jacket potato to be one boiled in their skin, and a baked potato to be baked in their skin.

Jacket potato would be a new or thin-skinned variety, and baked a russet. Both by me to be cut open, buttered copiously, sprinkled with salt and parsley. Yum.

Thanks missinterpreted I thought you d gone 🤣

I’d say baked if cooked in the oven i.e. all baking being done in an oven…
Jacket would be in the microwave or air fryer.

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?

Love jacket potatoes 🥔

Tuxedo spud.

I always refer to them as jacket.. 😊

GrannySomerset

What a strange thing to feel superior about. We always called them lid potatoes after coming across this term in a Milly Molly Mandy book. I wonder what label that gives us?

Yes! I had that book too and loved Lid Potatoes.

My dad called them baked potatoes in their jackets as well.

I love them with butter, grated cheese and coleslaw. Or tuna mayo and salad. Not so keen with baked beans.

Baked potatoes in jackets here.

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?

My daughter had a weekend job in the Spud U Like chain as a student in the 1990s. I didn’t realise till I googled this evening that James Martin is now involved.

spudulikebyjamesmartin.com/our-story/#:~:text=It%20is%20James'%20lifelong%20passion,launch%20SpudULike%20by%20James%20Martin.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?!!

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.

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

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

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 ?