Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 😋

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 🐷).

MBM would that be potatoes which had gone mouldy and growing a furry covering? 😂
We're not posh in our house - if I'm asked by my son "what's fer tea" (family phrase), my answer is "spuds"! Which means potatoes cooked in their skins and then some sort of topping on them, each according to their own preferences.
There is a preset on the microwave for 'jacket potato' but if I had to choose the term I'd more likely call them baked!
Nowadays I do them partly in the microwave to start them off, finish in the air fryer to crisp up the skins, so not sure if either of those cooking methods counts as baked?

Bella23

I'm common as well we had baked potatoes yesterday They are called baking potatoes on the bag not jacketing potatoes.

Very funny!

Aren't they Jacket Baked Potatoes? We shorten it to just "Jackets" in our house!

When on holiday in Turkey we saw a menu with "jacked potato "......so that's what they are called now!

Unbelievable 5 pages about Jacket or baked potatoes, Hilarious!! Here in the South it is definitely JP for every day use, but when we discuss menus I do know some people say Baked Potatoes. I am just waiting for my JP to be ready I am looking forward to it with lashings of cheddar.

We call it ovenpotatoes but have no problem with what other people call them. I learned the term jacket potatoes when travelling to America. Where I live baked potatoes are cooked potatoes cut in slices then baked on a pan on the hob 🤷🏼‍♀️ Who cares! Is there a social rang in potato-dishes? Because I like mash and fries too!

Win it's SO lovely that we can chat, disagree, exchange thoughts about potatoes 🥔 ... and still have no aggravation.

Happy day!
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We don’t even bother with calling them potatoes… they’re just jackets. Tho I did have to explain this to an American friend recently.

Common as in more frequently used?

I've always called them jacket potatoes,and I am no where near posh