That's what I had last night and my coworker acted like it was weird.
I do this sometimes with a big bowl of mashed potatoes. Its both 1) financially viable as I'm broke, and 2) a comfort food.
Some kind of bacon, garlic, ranch or sour cream, green onion, butter, maybe even some hot sauce. Fill me up!
I don't know if this is a Midwestern thing or not, but the potato bar was always a time-honored tradition when I was coming up out there
Just bake up a whole mess of baked potatoes and then serve them with a lot of different fixin's
Always good eating
Yeah, that does sound awesome. I wanna go to a supper club with one.
Edit: Relevant Chapo bit
I know isn't it?
Especially when taco stuff was an option
Taco stuff being beans, salsa and generic taco meat (which I never touched, since it smelled like sloppy joes)
don't have to hand it to em but wendy's got the right idea with a chili baked potato
True
Homemade chili is still the way to go though
Wendy's chili is too thin
Potato bars are so rare here (also Midwest). They happen, but super uncommon.
Probably less uncommon than the rest of the US, tho.. since the food all comes from here 😅
the potato bar
I totally forgot about that. I haven't had that in decades. I did some googling. At reddit I found this potato bar mystery...
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God yea!
Yes, but no toppings other than salt and pepper.
Related story - a friend had crashed at my apartment and in the morning I offered to pick up bagels from the place down the street. He thanked me, and I came back a few minutes later, bearing the best goddamn bagels in California. He said, "Where's the cream cheese?" I said, "You didn't ask for cream cheese." He said that with bagels it's implied, because "otherwise it's just bread." I said, ". . . I don't see the problem here."
I have told this story to many people and not one of them has sided with me.
I mean...
I've eaten bagels with just butter or margarine, but you gotta put something on there. Just a bagel would be weird.
I’m with you but it depends on the bagel and that’s probably the problem.
Many people only really have experience with like frozen/mass produced bagels, which are not good dry. Good toasted with cream cheese or butter, but not dry (speaking from intensely lazy experience).
But if you get one of the good ones that’s baked with cheese and is just soaked with delicious? Made by a good bakery? No question I’ll eat that dry. It doesn’t need extra if you make it right.
my coworker acted like it was weird.
You should have told him it was artificially "bacon double cheeseburger" flavored.
I thought the "if they're really small" referred to the eater. was gonna say you're so real for that, but unfortunately, it's not real
I know some Russians, that even though they had become petite bourgeoisie, they would go out of their way to enjoy their old countryside way of living by burying some potatoes under the ground by an inch or so, building a nice campfire, then drinking themselves silly waiting for the fire to die down enough for them to push it around to dig out their potatoes then eat them as is while passing around a salt shaker and cussing about how hot the potatoes are when they bite into them.
Literally just a meal of beer or vodka and potatoes
Frequently.
Add some shredded cheese or whatever, some fresh chives (grow 90% of the year here), some bacon, and some water or oil for mouthfeel (based on calorie needs) and you’ve got a whole meal.
Potatoes are cheap and so filling. Passing on them as a meal is a mistake.
Chives rule. They also grow great in pots so you can pull them indoors during the cold and have them 100% of the year.
Baked potatoes are great as leftovers but you gotta move fast because they go bad in a couple days. Simply bake an extra and the following day cube it up and fry it in a pan with some oil and seasonings. Get some crispy golden brown crust on there. Serve with eggs or beans or whatever else you like. Personally I recommend an omelet with mushrooms and onions and your favorite hot sauce.
Baked potatoes for dinner is like the most normal thing in the world.
