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      With sour cream, chives and bacon bits, a russet potato is a meal all by itself.

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            Are you taking off the skin? The skin has lots of good flavor. I still like sour cream, cheddar cheese, and green onions, but S+P and butter are still great to me.

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              Y’all all putting more than just salt on your potatoes? (Feel free to judge me I also eat them raw, I’m from Idaho)

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                Rosemary, sometimes. Other times, a mix of spices out of a jar.

                (Feel free to judge me I also eat them raw, I’m from Idaho)

                What. 😟 My mother always told me you can die eating potatoes raw.

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                  No you can’t die from it (save from maybe bacteria if you don’t wash it correctly which isn’t a potato specific problem that’s just produce). The green part of potatoes can make you sick if you eat too much but that’s more of a ratio thing and it is present in roughly the same levels cooked or raw.

                  Imo, the best way to eat them raw is to slice them relatively thin (not so thin as for them to be floppy), sprinkle a little salt on top. They have texture like a water chestnut. Eat as you slice or rinse the slices or else the starches leak and give them a weird mouth feel…

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                  It could make your tummy upset, but it’s unlikely to cause any issues at all unless the potato is turning green or starting to sprout. It’d taste pretty awful at that point, but I’m not sure I’d trust someone who eats raw potatoes to notice that…

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                You should know why Idaho is famous for it’s potatoes and fun hint, it wasn’t because they better than any other just cheaper for a kinda shitty reason.

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                  Is it the prison slave labor or is it a whole new fun and exciting reason? Because Idaho spuds are a lot of prison slave labor.

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              I keep the skin on. I’ve heard that a lot of good nutrition is just under the skin.

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            Try a yellow tatter instead. Russets are a hearty base to add flavors to but aren’t all that flavorful inandofthemselves.

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        Or chop it up, douse it with a mix of cayenne, garlic, and salt, spray it with a bit of olive oil, and toss it in the air fryer

        Quick and easy steak fries

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          Or slice it thin and serve it with a thick cheese sauce for easy potatoes au gratin

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    Ironically, the spud is absurdly more expensive than giving candy.

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      It is like a dollar each, but the smiles on kids faces as they walk home with the beginnings of a stew are priceless

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          Yeah, same here, and even that’s high. I know you can get deals where you can get 2 of those bags for like $5. It’s one of the cheapest vegetables you can get. Definitely a great food to buy if you’re not doing too well financially. Cheap, nutritious, filling, and tons of recipes.

          For comparison I got my Halloween bag of candy at Costco for $20 bucks… candy is ridiculously expensive.

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          I just pulled up the [Department Store] app I have on my phone and looked at the individual prices, it says $0.82 each

          I’m gonna be honest, I could not possibly tell you how much a potato weighs, so I have no idea how many potatoes come in the $3.27 5 lbs bag

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        ‘It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?’

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        What potatoes you buying are they gold encrusted?

        Where I am you can basically get them by the crate load. I have no idea what one individual potato cost because I’ve never bought one individual potato. But my estimate would be about three for a dollar. Big ones like in the photo not little tiny ones.

        Also don’t get no ones in plastic wrapping they’re more expensive and they’re not any better. Just wash your vegetables. The mud and flavour admittedly it’s mud flavour.

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          Why are wrapped in plastic? Don’t they usually come in some sort of netting and or loose and you can get as many as you like in a cloth bag?

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            Usually the ones individually wrapped in plastic are being sold as microwaveable.

            I guess we’ll just ignore the fact that you don’t need to wrap a potato in plastic to microwave it successfully.

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              In fact, you really shouldn’t wrap your potato in plastic to microwave it. That’s an awful idea.

              That said, all potatoes are microwaveable anyway.

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                I think the idea is to show that it’s already been cleaned and is ready to be microwaved without having to clean it.

                It’s still stupid and I would never buy one when I can get 5 lb bag for not that much more, but I don’t think the idea is to microwave it in the plastic.

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        Bro, you hand me finger foods I’m gunna eat it on the way back, just ask for a little salt at each house you stop by.

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    This trick only works so long as only one house in the neighborhood does it.

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    Obligatory: Po-tay-toes! Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew…

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    I have confirmed the results of this experiment. Some kids asked “what is this?” then took it once I told them it was a potato.

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    My folks have a sign on the door saying, “potato available upon request” and they run out of them every year.

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    Makes sense, potatoes are basically the candy of the vegetable world. Just a giant ball of starchy carbs.

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      That was my first thought too! Somehow, a potato is even better in this case.

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    With the wrong crowd that potato goes through a neighbor’s window and this experiment is over going forward.

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    They should have IOU as an option, they use this IOU to claim more chocolate next holloween. Teaching kids finance while there at it.

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    Yeah but the kid question also apparently got a Snickers bar. So their taste is somewhat debatable.

    I’d choose the potato as well but that’s because I’m an adult and really don’t care about candy

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    The caption doesn’t mention the other choice.

    “Potato or death?”