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Charlotte

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I used to have a favourite potato. I called her Kate and we went everywhere together. We had some advetures, I can tell you. Then one day she went a bit green and these growths appeared all over her.

 

She didn't recover. I was devastated. I buried her in the garden.

 

I've never looked at another potato since then.

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Digging up an old one for some help here. I've noticed the new "Potato Footballs" that are out from McCain. Can anyone remember what these were called years ago? I'm guessing in the 80's or 90's. Just balls of mash potato with a crispy coating. I keep thinking tots, or pops or something like that... obviously not tater tots though.

 

Anyone remember them? I don't think they were made by McCain, I think they were a lesser brand.

 

Pommes Noisettes I have found them being called. I'm thinking the ones I had were simpler, like "Potato Balls" lol.

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I used to have a favourite potato. I called her Kate and we went everywhere together. We had some advetures, I can tell you. Then one day she went a bit green and these growths appeared all over her.

 

She didn't recover. I was devastated. I buried her in the garden.

 

I've never looked at another potato since then.

 

Still, she only had eyes for you.

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Charlotte,

 

In case you've never encountered Adrian Mitchell's potato-related poem:

 

STRONG MAN:

 

Mashed potatoes cannot hurt you,

Mashed potatoes mean no harm

I have brought you mashed potatoes

From my mashed potato farm

 

LADY:

 

Take away your mashed potatoes

Leave them in the desert to dry

Take away your mashed potatoes -

You look like shepherd's pie

 

BRASH MAN:

 

A packet of chips, a packet of chips,

Wrapped in the Daily Mail

Golden juicy and fried for a week

In the blubber of the Great White Whale

 

LADY:

 

Take away your fried potatoes

Use them to clean your ears

You can eat your fried potatoes

With birds-eye frozen tears

 

OLD MAN:

 

I have borne this baked potato

O'er the Generation Gap

Pray accept this baked potato

Let me lay it in your heated lap.

 

LADY:

 

Take away your baked potato

In your fusty musty van

Take away your baked potato

You potato-skinned old man

 

FRENCHMAN:

 

She rejected all potaoes

For a thousand nights and days

Till a Frenchman wooed and won her

With pommes de terre Lyonnaise.

 

LADY:

 

Oh my corrugated lover

So creamy and so brown

Let us fly across to Lyons

And lay our tubers down.

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Charlotte,

 

In case you've never encountered Adrian Mitchell's potato-related poem:

 

STRONG MAN:

 

Mashed potatoes cannot hurt you,

Mashed potatoes mean no harm

I have brought you mashed potatoes

From my mashed potato farm.

 

I'm sad to say I haven't but thanks for pointing them out! The above is my personal favourite because I'd like to own a mashed potato farm myself. :)

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My Favourite -

 

Slice 'em up so they're about 1.5cm thick, parboil, then lay them out in a baking tray in a mixture of olive oil / chilli oil, add ground chilli flakes and fresh chilli, some mixed herbs and garlic, cook for about 45 mins in the oven = YUMMY!!! :D

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