Way back in the day, when I lived in the dorms at Seattle Pacific University, I went through a variety of "phases" with food. Top ramen, frozen burritos, 7-11 foods... and then potatoes. I was amazed to find that I could buy a huge-ass bag of potatoes for really cheap. Poke a few holes and throw it in the microwave, and you've got a "baked" potato.
Now, we all know that nobody eats baked potatoes because they like potatoes. People eat baked potatoes because they are an excellent material to hold up a variety of delectable condiments that would be gross and/or socially unacceptable to eat by themselves. I soon found that it was these condiments that prevented potatoes from being "the cheapest" food to eat.
I picked up a total of six ingredients to sprinkle/pour/douse my potatoes with: salt (actually I stole this from BJ), pepper (also stolen from BJ), butter, sour cream, bacon bits (which turned out to actually be soy bits flavored as bacon...), and Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce.
The Sweet Baby Ray sauce received the most comments from my peers. Specifically, "Gross!" "Yuck!" and "That's disgusting." Little did they know (I attended a conference once on "Little Did He Know"...) that Sweet Baby Ray's was actually the savior of baked potatoes.
However, no matter how delicious, no human being can eat an entire five-pound bag of potatoes by themselves before the potatoes begin budding. Also, Sweet Baby Ray ran out before the potatoes did.
5 comments:
Why can't a person continue eating potatoes after they are budding? Those are just flavor buds, and are in fact the tastiest out of the entire potato pile.
But I completely understand the dilemma of running out of condiments. I could take a full container of sour cream and use it up on just 1.5 potatoes. I'm going to try Baconaise on some baked potatoes when it arrives.
I've never been able to get over the "it's growing" factor on buds. Plus they look like potato pimples. But maybe I should give them a chance.
I've been inspired to make baked potatoes for dinner tonight.
I knew that this blog would someday inspire people to do great things, I just had no idea it would happen so soon.
Blog mission #21. Check.
I personally think that Sweet Baby Ray's sounds good on baked potatoes, which I also love for their condiment-bearing qualities.
I have eaten barely post-budded potatoes. You just cut the buds off.
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