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I have no idea what you have

Richard Day — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:13:08 +0000

In reply to Dick Day!! Nice to see you

I have no idea what you have started here?

First of all, there has been a mistake.

The bag of taters ended up being only 5lbs as they say.

Secondly, two or three bucks sounds about right.

Thirdly (is thirdly a word?) I just felt bad when I discovered my thievery. (is that a word?)

Fourthly, why does anybody care? hahahahahahhah

Evidently folks do not like my new series which I will continue even though my son says to scrap it.

hahahah

Anyway, time has passed and peeps seem jolly!

You've read my bio?

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:10:34 +0000

In reply to Well of course you don't have

You've read my bio?

Well of course you don't have

ocean-kat — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:15:43 +0000

In reply to Or you can put a bit of

Well of course you don't have to use 4 or 5 tablespoons of butter. You can use several spoons full of sour creme instead. I've always found that the sour taste gets in the way of a full appreciation of the unadulterated taste of the fat.

eta: I'm sure that there's an occasions stoic that eats a baked potato with nothing but salt and pepper. Just as there are likely a few people who still wear hair shirts or flagellate themselves.

Or you can put a bit of

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:53:49 +0000

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Or you can put a bit of ketchup or mustard a boiled or baked potato and it's not "large quantities of fat" - perhaps just salt & pepper depending on what the main dish is, or some toned down gravy (vegetarian, of course...)

Been a long time since I did that butter or margarine thing. Even bread needs butter/margarine in traditional American thinking - hard to fathom the French baguette w or w/o cheese...

Potatoes are nothing more

ocean-kat — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:18:18 +0000

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Potatoes are nothing more than the most efficient way to get large quantities of fat and salt in your diet whether you use like a sponge to suck up grease by deep frying or add a half stick of butter to a baked potato. You could use a sponge or a paper towel to suck up the grease and then suck it out of the sponge but potatoes have the advantage of having basically no taste to get in the way of the fat and salt consumption.

Not me - I'm an ingrate.

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:41:41 +0000

In reply to Dick Day!! Nice to see you

Not me - I'm an ingrate.

PS - recommendation is to put potatoes in a paper bag, not in the fridge as the starch turns to sugar.

Oh, and the bit about potatoes being fattening is an urban myth - they're mostly water, which is why they freeze. But deep fry them for french fries, etc, that's a different matter....

Dick Day!! Nice to see you

Anonymous kgb — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 07:30:08 +0000

In reply to AN ETHICAL QUANDRY CONCERNING POTATOES

Dick Day!! Nice to see you still writing. Hope all's well.

FWIW, 10lb of potatoes usually costs less than $3.00 around here ... I can't imagine it's that much more in your neck of the woods. Great bang-for-your buck food.

As for *what* to do with them, sometimes I'll bake them and then freeze them ... then grate them up for hashbrowns as needed (pro tip: if the potato is *too* frozen, wait a couple minutes before grating). ;-)

Wonderful AA.

Richard Day — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:42:32 +0000

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Wonderful AA.

Strange.

But all of us peeps are strange; at least to other folks.

I dunno, I am captivated by this little girl!

Katy lied. hahahahah

Richard Day — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:38:43 +0000

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Katy lied. hahahahah

Steely Dan for chrissakes. hahahaha

Well, your conclusion is good and well argumented.

I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING.

the end

Ab fab story.

artappraiser — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 01:38:08 +0000

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Ab fab story. I got no advice. You are on your own.

But do want to share a favorite of one of my online news board pals from pre-TPM Cafe days. He was a nice young Quebecois trying to get more fluent in English. He and I liked to swap North Korean propanganda. The Potato Song was his favorite. I betcha you're gonna love it, too:

Oh then there was the 100-yr old neighbor a few doors down, quite spry for her age.. Would get her groceries on the bus! Still, warned me getting old was "no party." And she did not make it to 101. Last thing I remember her saying to me when I saw her out watering, was when I asked her if I could get her anything at the store "they still got that bag of potatoes on sale for 99 cents? Get me one of those."