CHIPS vs FRIES

apropos of not exactly anything, toasted heinz spaghetti sandwiches with cheese are AMAZING (also like mouth napalm when hot)

Baked bean and cheese toasties are the best toasted sandwiches ever, bar none.

Right? As a vegetarian they were awesome and something I knew I could rely on when eating out. That said, eating out as a veg was almost easier in the UK. More options across the board and most of the menus were labeled. You wouldn't think that it would be but it really was.

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whenever they had a flea-market type thing growing up, there would be the man with his mobile oven cooking baked potatoes as big as ostrich eggs, stuffed with fresh coleslaw, cheese, lemon pepper, sour cream, the whole thing, even meat sauce if you were that way inclined

best lunch EVER

;_;

Boston's love of baked beans with molasses is a double edged spoon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster

I've read about that. What a way to die!

There's a big deli chain down here, McAlister's, that has a lot of stuffed baked potatoes on their menu. They use huge potatoes, too, two-pounders generally.

Where you at? I'm coming to visit, k?

Yeah the molasses disaster thing is nuts.

(runs to car) where you at WmC????

i voted for fries assuming that "chips" = potato chips, because duh. should have known they would be britishes chips.

so uk chips = potato wedges???

The event has entered local folklore, and residents claim that on hot summer days, the area still smells of molasses.

Nobody says this. Just fyi.

xpost more like steak fries but not exactly

VegGrrrl, it's McAlister's Deli -- they started near here in Oxford, MS, and have gotten huge since they started franchising in the mid 90s.

Oh so she's invited but I'm not. Thanks a lot! ;p

no I'm coming to pick you up E! We are carpooling to McAllisters for some serious baked potato lovin'

;p

Sorry Erica, spuds for you too! Missed your post. Their locations page is surprising; I didn't realize they'd spread out to so many states. I used to eat there when they were nervous about opening their 4th and 5th locations.

deadly serious, E!

I'll be there in...hmm...okay this could take some time

SPUD MAX™ • 7.29
Ham, turkey, bacon, cheddar-jack cheese,
green onions and black olives with sour
cream on the side.

SPUD OLÉ™ • 6.29
Covered with chili (or veggie chili), cheddar-jack cheese and
sliced jalapeños.

THE BIG NASTY® SPUD • 6.99
Roast beef smothered in gravy and topped with cheddar-jack cheese.

VEGGIE SPUD • 5.49
Red onions, bell peppers, diced tomatoes, black olives and mozzarella.

BACON SPUD • 6.49
Loaded with bacon and cheddar-jack
cheese.

GRILLED CHICKEN SPUD • 6.89
Sliced grilled chicken, mozzarella, diced tomatoes and green onions.

CHEESE SPUD • 5.99
Loaded with melted cheddar-jack cheese.

JUSTASPUD® • 4.99
Served with a side of sour cream.

Add Gravy, Ro-Tel® cheese sauce, Chili or Veggie Chili • 1.00 each

Ranch or Bleu Cheese dressing • .50 each

Ro-Tel Cheese Sauce!!!!! <3

I usually have the Olé and make time in my schedule for a brief coma.

Oh. God.

PS: Bacon cheddar and scallions plsplsplsplsthx

Have to make sure to get that vegetable in there.

I think I'd be down with the Ole, with extra Rotel Cheese sauce because omg I really want to try that

or just a spud with rotel cheese sauce: potatoes, cheese, tomatoes, chilis. All the food groups!

Roast beef in a baked potato? The big nasty is more English than the English really are! Bit like a snail omlette for the French!

I voted chips. I think fries are a bit posh. I only ever have them in trendy restaurants who don't want to sell the common chip. It's all about the way you cut them right?

Your username is making me crave potato waffles now :-(

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― ailsa, Thursday, 14 April 2011 21:10 (Yesterday)

That ad I posted upthread gives me the nearest thing to a Pavlovian reaction, especially the longer version that lists a whole load of food that can be put on the waffles, especially the scrambled eggs

I had no idea that loaded baked potatoes were an uncommon thing in the States! I guess the McAlisters influence is pretty strong in this area. We make them at home fairly often -- a steamed/chopped broccoli crown + rotel cheese dip is a good combo.

What, you can get baked potatoes at Wendy's!

I don't think they're exceedingly rare or anything but I don't see them that often whereas in the UK you can get them at nearly every pub and they're just way way more common.

OK yeah you can get them at Wendy's but I haven't been inside a Wendy's since forever.

Probably like, IHOP, Applebee's, places like that...maybe TGI Fridays. I dunno. I don't eat at those places either, but I think there are hellof ton of options for stuffed baker acquisition stateside.

I don't know about IHOP but def not at the other two.

http://www.applebees.com/Menu_Extras.aspx

"top off your baked or mashed potatoes", Erica. hmmmmm?

I haven't had a baked potato in forever though. Totally gonna do this.

x-post - ok but that's a side dish and not a meal where it comes with salad or something. I'm not saying you can't get them anywhere but it's just done differently! WTH does top off mean anyway.

It means when your baked potato starts getting cold, they throw a warm baked potato on top of it.

Baked-potato bowl full of bacon-cheese-potato soup is going to be the next big thing.

I used to call them fries until I realized that they're best paired with fried sea food of some sort, as it should be. I particularly like crinkle style chips with my fried surf and turf.

Actually i've been meaning to ask if baked potatoes are a regular thing in the US. Couple of lunchtimes I've been downtown in SF and craving a spud with chilli or coleslaw or something and can't think of anywhere I'd get one. In the UK most of the sandwich shops near my office would do (usually MASSIVE) baked potatoes as well as sandwiches, super cheap too.

The idea of a cold salad like coleslaw piled into a hot baked potato grosses me out.

Baked potatoes in the US, when they're at Applebees and places like that are usually twice-baked and full of all kinds of crazy glop that I don't care for.

I'm more for the coleslaw, sour cream cheese kind of single-baked potato that I used to have in Australia

anyway I love that this thread has turned into I Heart Potato

I've never liked the 'jacket potato' - which is what a topped potato entree is called here. There are lots of microwaved and weirdly steamed potatoes out there waiting to annoy and I never fail to be grossed out by the VERY IDEA of tuna salad and sweetcorn on top of one of these horrible things. I am fond of telling British friends that the jacket potato is not a meal, it's an accompaniment for steak.

Oh it's totally weird at first and I was pretty much aghast at the idea of tuna/sweetcorn* thing as a topping until I tried it. They are definitely meals if you don't eat steak.

*Also the idea of this was so weird to me in general. I mean tuna salad with corn in it - waht?! I got over it eventually.

Tuna from a can is the only food 100 percent liable to make me vom, so to add corn and have it actually look like stunt puke...

But I digress.

suzy, even Italian tuna in olive oil?

http://static.flickr.com/63/165791249_f09d91ee88_o.jpg

The idea of a cold salad like coleslaw piled into a hot baked potato grosses me out.

We put it on hot dogs, and its a pretty delicious combo.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Montreal_steamie_hotdog.jpg/220px-Montreal_steamie_hotdog.jpg

Of course our coleslaw is not the creamy variety, that would be gross.

Yeah the coleslaw that went into Aus baked potatoes back home was like thinly shredded cabbage of diff colors, onions, celery and sort of lightly dressed but not at all gloppy or sweet really, more vinegary

That's less gross (and I love vinaigrette-y noncreamy slaws), but I still can't get down with a cold salad in a hot potato.

y do u hate fun

:D

I am still coming for your baked potatoes anyway WmC

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