Is this really a Utah thing?

[NewbombTurk]

@SkinyUte

Baked potatoes? Mashed potatoes? Funeral potatoes?

Philistine!

[BamaFanNKY]

@Buhbye

if I ate that kinda thing these days.

I eat plant based with no oils primarily. Except vacations and holidays. May need to find Oreos and Sour Cream today.

[Daedalus]

@SkinyUte

Baked potatoes? Mashed potatoes? Funeral potatoes?

One of these things is not like the other. Funeral potatoes are made of so many other tasty things, they are not really potatoes.

However I will submit a potato casserole staple from my childhood that I continue to abhor today: shepherd’s pie. It might be just the feeling-broke-today way my father made it and that I haven’t ever had a good one, but I found nothing appealing in that dish.

[Guba]

@SkinyUte

And here I thought I was the only one. I will occasionally eat French fries, but only if they’re thin cut, fried, and salted to the point where they don’t really taste like potatoes anymore.

Baked potatoes? Mashed potatoes? Funeral potatoes?

I grew up eating a lot of potatoes. They are pretty cheap and easy to grow and being poor we grew a lot. We ate them every way you can think of but my favorite was always mashed with gravy. I also I always liked mom’s latkes/potato pancakes and her made from scratch hash browns. If it weren’t for potatoes we would have been very hungry.

[Greginslc]

Just got the turkey in the oven, the backup stuffing in the fridge, and the first load of dishes in the dishwasher.

I first-world like that.

[BamaFanNKY]

@Greginslc

Just got the turkey in the oven, the backup stuffing in the fridge, and the first load of dishes in the dishwasher.

I first-world like that.

Why would you have backup stuffing? Stuffing goes in the bird. Are you saying dressing?

This right here is the start to major arguments on vocabulary in my neck of the woods.

[NewbombTurk]

@BamaFanNKY

This right here is the start to major arguments on vocabulary in my neck of the woods.

Lighten up Cletis. Stuffing can be in the bird or in a separate dish. It’s the same stuff. And this comes from my wife who is from Texas and was raised on cornbread stuffing (cooked in a separate pan).

[HoopUte]

@sweetgrass

I know I’m odd for saying this but my grandma was a fire ball, a bit of a racist, and a god awful cook. She would boil potatoes and make us eat them. She ruined potatoes for me. I can’t stomach potatoes in any form. Mashed - yuck, baked not as bad but still awful, fried - tolerable, but I skip them when I can. And don’t get me started on potatoes evil twin yams or sweet potatoes - no thank you.

That’s a shame, because in my opinion a baked yam with butter and brown sugar with BBQ ribs is one of God’s great gifts to man.

[BamaFanNKY]

@NewbombTurk

Lighten up Cletis. Stuffing can be in the bird or in a separate dish. It’s the same stuff. And this comes from my wife who is from Texas and was raised on cornbread stuffing (cooked in a separate pan).

Counterpoint:

Alton Brown

CBS Sunday Morning 🌞

Honestly, I think they are two different things. Dressing has more liquid.

[Greginslc]

I cooked up the sausage, onions, and celery. Added butter, rosemary, thyme, and some extra sage. Used Cubbinson’s herb bread stuffing (since the cornbread stuff didn’t exist in the stores in Magna this year). Filled the bird with the mix, and what didn’t fit into the bird went into a Pyrex roaster pan to be heated up later. Before I heat it, I will put some of the turkey drippings on it to add the turkey flavor.

[DataUte]

Stuffing is just a food safety issue waiting to happen. If you get it to a safe temp, the bird is dry. Cook the bird. Cook the dressing. Both to perfection. Use the giblets, neck to make the broth for the dressing. Or, like I do, smoke the bird and don’t do stuffing/dressing. It’s like 8th best dish anyway. Let the fight continue.

[NewbombTurk]

@DataUte

It’s like 8th best dish anyway. Let the fight continue.

Philistine!

[Greginslc]

8th best???

You’re dead to me.

It’s #2 on my list. The turkey skin being #1.

[NewbombTurk]

@Buhbye

Hot take: Stove top is better than any stuffing or dressing you all are talking about. Celery? What the hell?

Stove Top. The Cafe Rio of stuffing.

[Greginslc]

@NewbombTurk uses Coca Cola in his Stove Top for the full Café Rio effect.

[NewbombTurk]

@Greginslc

full Café Rio effect

I’m just upset they don’t serve the fideo any more. I really liked that. The rest of the stuff I could take or leave.

[Daedalus]

Alas, stuffing and cranberry sauce are the items that go exclusively to me for the holidays (Chinese in-laws). I told the wife I’d be happy with Stove Top in this situation. But I made one from a Pepperidge Farm kit instead anyway. It smells correct.

[BamaFanNKY]

Not gonna lie. I can eat that whole pie in one sitting. Love chess pie.

[3UteDad]

I think I see a pickle peeking out under that crust.

[chrisrenrut]

@Greginslc

I cooked up the sausage, onions, and celery. Added butter, rosemary, thyme, and some extra sage. Used Cubbinson’s herb bread stuffing (since the cornbread stuff didn’t exist in the stores in Magna this year). Filled the bird with the mix, and what didn’t fit into the bird went into a Pyrex roaster pan to be heated up later. Before I heat it, I will put some of the turkey drippings on it to add the turkey flavor.