Thread Thanksgiving
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I have to say I prefer my baked potatoes plain. Completely plain.
Then again I am 50% Scottish....
Yes, my tastebuds are so awful they need an overload of bacon and cheese and cream and pork and turkey gravy and fat to go on top of potatoes just so I can taste something.
That's definitely a sign of a defective palate on my behalf.
Haven't you burned off your tastepubs with alcohol or clogged them with fags yet? I wuld think you would WANT to cover foods with lots of toppings.
Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski
Clam whisperer
I've no idea if you can clog tastebuds with fags but I'm certainly giving it a go.
Chim has a sweet potato casserole recipe that involves over a stick of butter, nuts, and brown sugar for days.
You didn't think smoking would change your ability to taste?
Please try not to "school" others on tasting items, dumpster diver
Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski
Clam whisperer
Sorry Dave but considering your sexuality I read that in a completely different way to which it was intended.
Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski
Clam whisperer
You didn't think smoking would change your ability to taste?
Please try not to "school" others on tasting items, dumpster diver
Actually my taste ie very acute and above average despite smoking roll ups.
sorry didn't take any pics. most people can't stomach the idea that my family eat chitterlings on thanksgiving. I can barely stand the smell of them.
But they do make a mean 7-up cake.
But they do make a mean 7-up cake.
If by abomination you mean possibly the best advance in the culinary arts since salt and pepper, then yes, I agree.
Hey bitchpants, that is EXACTLY what I said. Mashed potatoes are supposed to taste like potato. Seasonings are meant to be subtle and ADD to a dish, not overpower it.
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
So a stuffed baked potato is right out? I do like minimalist mashed potatoes but I also like them with toppings. I actually like to eat potatoes prepared in many different ways, and I like every variety of potato I've ever tried. There's nothing wrong with any of this. It doesn't make my palate bad that I enjoy cheese on my potatoes. Smoking did make my palate bad. It has a tendency to do that to everyone. You don't even notice until you've stopped. Anyone who claims differently simply doesn't realize what they are doing to their body.
I think you are underestimating the amount of salt most people are used to tasting. All the stuff people are using as toppings is loaded with salt/savoury flavoring. Cheese has salt, bacon is salted smoked pork, cream cheese is fairly salty. It's just like soda, most soda is sickeningly sweet, but people are used to drinking it and expect that kind of taste.
One of my parents was diabetic for years, I'm used to eating shit where the only seasoning is spicy.
Syrup Beaver
pants log
Potatoes taste "meh" at best with no seasonings.
I grew up eating potatoes with nothing in 'em and hated it, never again.
I grew up eating potatoes with nothing in 'em and hated it, never again.
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
I didn't mean 'nothing wrong' as far as health is concerned. I meant 'nothing wrong' as far as personal choice is concerned.
we used to do peanut butter saltine cracker sandwiches and then you had to whistle. this was part of relay races in swimming when I was a kid
Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski
Clam whisperer
Did it for our squat olympics 2010 but with 8 crackers. I believe someone managed it in under 2 minutes, it was a close run event.