Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

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.

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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?

Baked potatoes in jackets here.

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.

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.

I always refer to them as jacket.. 😊

Tuxedo spud.

Love jacket potatoes 🥔

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’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.

Thanks missinterpreted I thought you d gone 🤣

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.

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

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

Strange reply, but hey ho, whatever you wish

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!

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. 🤷‍♀️

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

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.

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

Like this...

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.

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.

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.

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 !!!