I would like to purchase this cookbook.
~~300~~ 500 Different Ways to Cook Potatoes
I would like to purchase this cookbook.
~~300~~ 500 Different Ways to Cook Potatoes
Those all actually look really fucking good.
you had doubts they would?
it's really hard to fuck up potatoes
Worst case scenario: Abandon your previous plans and now you're trying a new twist on mashed potatoes!
😊
I'm thinking about potatoes...
Tell that to Ireland.
It's hard to mess them up if there are none.
It's hard to mess them up if ~~there are none~~ the british keep fucking taking them.
Hey this isn't Latvia.
Q: How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
A: Zero!
I'm sure I could do it.
Baked potatoes. Still tastes like the dirt they came out of. Gross.
You're supposed to wash them first. And add butter
Sour creme. A dash of shredded cheese. Maybe some bacon if you have it laying around crumbled in a container because you think ahead.
I'm hungry. Love potatoes. Later!
and salt
dirt is tasty m8
Wait there are people who don't like baked potatoes?? This had never even occurred to me as a possibility.
Twice baked potatoes are that shit, for those who don't enjoy regular baked potatoes.
I dunno, the maillard reactions being limited to the skin really limits how much I can appreciate them. At least mashed potatoes get cream and butter integrated to them, and not just on top.
Yeah I know what you're saying. When I make them I get the insides super soft, then make some slices through the middle (without cutting through the skin). That allows the butter to more thoroughly penetrate and saturate the inside.
Cool
You must of had some shitty baked potato...
I've had tons of baked potatoes both at home and from high end restaurants. All the butter, salt, pepper, or sour cream in the world can't make one taste good enough to be edible. I'll eat potato a number of other ways but not baked.
Unless it's a twice-baked, with season-salt, butter, cheese, bacon, etc. But at that point it hardly resembles an actual baked potato anymore. But put a tray of nice twice baked potatoes in front of me and I'll devour the damn things.
can't make one taste good enough to be edible.
/
But put a tray of nice twice baked potatoes in front of me and I'll devour the damn things.
I can't trust you!
Twice baked potatoes are just potato skins stuffed with mashed potatoes, they aren't really "baked potatoes."
Grill oiled half potato on the BBQ. Sprinkle with flowers, chopped chives and season to taste.
Thats the cover recipe sorted.
499 to go.
Are you telling me you just looked at 500 different potato recipes?
The ones on the cover lel.
Latvian torture guide
That main picture, it looks like the potatoes are covered in flies.
Look at that book on Amazon. No, really. Click on an image and browse a single recipe.
All of the recipes in that book are for fruit pies.
Secret Russian conspiracy to destroy America via obesity, or delicious printing error?!
You got any more of them there fried taters?
Some people call it a kaiser blade... MMMhhrrrmm
I call it a sling blade.
Strike that, reverse it. The line is "Some call it a sling-blade, I call it a kaiser blade."
Oh so THAT's what my uncle was referencing when he muttered something about "fried taters" at me as a kid.
I don't know why that stuck with me for like 17 years (I'm 20) but still.
Mmmm.
Reckon I'll have me the big'uns
French fried pertaters!
180 Delicious Vegetarian Potato Recipes: Delicious meat-free recipes featuring the... by Elizabeth Woodland 4 offers from $147.63
That's less than a dollar per recipe!
My professor told me we didn't really need the text, but it looked like the entire midterm was just copy/pasted from the "Potatoes in vinaigrette" chapter.
Elizabeth Woodland fucking loves potatoes
http://www.amazon.com/500-Potato-Recipes-Irresistible-accompaniments/dp/0754818888
http://www.bokus.com/bok/9781781460283/500-potato-recipes/
You won't believe Numbers 91, 217, and 480!
This one seems to be the best one regarding quality price, has pictures and it has both metric and imperial units to measure the recipes
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That's some damn fine police work, Lou.
As the article said, if you read Russian, and have a fondness for potatoes, they would be happy to lend it.
Anyway, like I was sayin', potato is the fruit of the ground. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, potato-kabobs, potato creole, potato gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple potato, lemon potato, coconut potato, pepper potato, potato soup, potato stew, potato salad, potato and potatoes, potato burger, potato sandwich. That- that's about it.
Mashed potatos
I was waiting for this thank you
Literally the fruit of the ground, in French at least.
Indeed ThunderCunt, Indeed
Where have I read this before?
Leviticus 11:1-30 - And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, "Anyway, like I was sayin', potato is the fruit of the ground. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, potato-kabobs, potato creole, potato gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple potato, lemon potato, coconut potato, pepper potato, potato soup, potato stew, potato salad, potato and potatoes, potato burger, potato sandwich. That- that's about it."
Russia has more potato recipes than the Lord.
AKA
Godless Russians do things to potatoes that the Lord never intended.
Bubba
Potato pancakes?
It's a common food in many cultures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_pancake
Have you ever watched Forest Gump?
Is that the film about the troll in the woods?
You have an incredible sense of intuition and stamina as well as intellectual vigor my good man.
And gnocchi!
Or ad the French call them, dirt-apples.
Boil 'em, mash' em, stick 'em in a stew
Is it 500 recipes to cook potatoes with or '500 ways to cook potatoes' because I'm not sure I know 500 ways to cook anything. If they're just different recipes well shit there's hundreds of thousands of ways to make recipes with potatoes, just throw every variation of ingredient in different amounts and combinations at the thing, that alone will do it. Might not all taste great, but shit, you'll still get a ton of decent combinations. But actually cooking it in different ways gets pretty slim quick for the fundamental process of frying, boiling, steaming, smoking, grilling, etc... Whether I toss other things in there is irrelevant to the way in which I cook the potato. I suppose he was either being considerate in small talk or they got caught up in the semantics of 'ways to cook.'
I'm pretty sure you're right. 500 recipes is not 500 ways to cook. More like 500 ways to prepare.
exactly, the stupid old *** was talking out of her arse. its 500 recipes that happen to include potatoes.
There's essentially 1 way to cook a potato, which is apply heat.
edit: cooking = applying heat
I have to admit "500 Ways to Apply Heat to a Potato" sounds like it something I would read.
Gas stove
Electric stove
Microwave
Oven
Blowtorch
High pressure chamber full of air (may deform potato)
Boil
Fry
Drop into liquid lead or other metal
Stab nails into either end, attach nails to electric cords, plug into outlet
Thermite (extra crispy)
Magnifying glass and sun
Dynamite
Hold in your pocket (may never cook, but will slightly warm)
Build a giant slingshot and launch into the sun
Set on your car's engine after a long drive. Or during.
Run a spike through the whole thing, and then pass it though one of these
Rub the potato very fast
Leave outside on the sidewalk in Arizona
Drop into volcano
Barbecue
Smoker
Tin foil dinner over coals
Steam
Ok someone else take over from here.
this is what the book should be.
Pretty sure dropping it in Milton metal or lava would cause a steam explosion.
Boil
Steam
Fry
...
...
327 Clench buttocks
"How do you want your steak cooked?"
"By application of heat"
"......"
there are different methods of applying heat, which we need to specify. but essentially we cook by applying heat. and there's like 2 ways: conduction and radiation.
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But then it isn't cooked, it's prepared. : )
Which applies to all foods not just potatoes.
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cook = applying heat. icecream isn't cooked.
So... you haven't had potato ice cream then.
If he had, he would know heat is naturally applied to ice cream whent it is removed from the freezer (or in the case of Russian potato ice cream, when the ice cream is clawed out of the frozen ground by bare hands.)
you bastard. you know what i meant.
well if they were cooked first that just proves my point
i would be curious to try it, but google doesn't come up with anything
/r/iamverysmart
i'm not that bad. this is a reasonable point.
Over a wood fire, over the stove, in the oven, ...
and what are they all doing? they are all applying heat. through conduction and radiation.
"Ways to cook potatoes" - yes, it can be abstracted like you said
yes, this is true, my point is that there aren't 500 ways of doing that. and its all just applying heat through radiation and conduction essentially. edit: i oversimplified for a slightly humerous effect but it didn't come across clearly.
Ways to apply heat = ways of cooking. This isn't that hard of a connection, calm down.
yes, thats my point exactly. are there 500 ways of applying heat? therefore her claim is ridiculous.
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frying = applying heat, through conduction, convection and radiation.
oven = applying heat, through conduction, convection and radiation.
grill = applying heat, through conduction, convection and radiation.
toasting = applying heat, through conduction, convection and radiation.
fire = applying heat, through conduction, convection and radiation.
microwave = applying heat, through conduction, convection and radiation.
magnifying glass = applying heat, through conduction, convection and radiation.
Lost in translation.
Baked potato.
Baked potato with cheese
Baked potato with bacon
Baked potato with cheese and bacon
Etc. Which I would say doesn't count.
Yeah, just 9 different ingredients being either present or absent (plus the potato, of course) would yield 512 recipes.
Nowadays you could store 200 giga-recipies on a micro SD card.
Damn wait til I tell my grandma about this
Why would you eat a baked potato without cheese AND bacon?
I actually enjoy the simplicity of a baked potato with butter, salt and pepper.
Well, on that note, are there 500 ways to cook at all? If not then he and everyone else in the world probably knew what she meant.
Yeah there are more than 500 ways to cook. Humans have found all kinds of crazy ways to cook
Cooking is just heating right? When we say cooking it technically means just a fashion of heating. So with a big enough magnifying glass I can "cook" a potato. Or fry an egg on a car radiator, for instance.
Yeah, I used to prepare radiatos all the time from my '91 civic. Then the engine exploded. Can you give me a ride to Baltimore?
Sounds like a Godek '1,000 ways to...' book.
yeah i was about to say the same thing.
Well,
The 100 folds of the [chef's hat] are said to represent the many different ways a chef knows to cook an egg. Wikipedia
So if there are 100 ways to cooks eggs, it seems reasonable that there might be a similar number of ways to cook potatoes (soft boiled, scrambled, sunnyside up).
That is the shortest article I've ever read.
Nowhere does it say "ways to cook" potatoes, that's OPs wording.
No shit there are hundreds of potato recipes. I'm guessing the 500 recipes contain dishes that are mostly potatoes. Potato shavings on a strawberry sundae don't count as a god damn recipe.
Yet they turn them into Vodka.
Russian vodka is made from wheat.
In soviet Russia wheat is made from potato
In soviet Russia, potato.
In Latvia, no potato.
Such is life in Latvia.
Its recipe #428 in the book.
Vodka is made from many different things, including maple sap and milk (a Vermont company makes those ones). Vodka describes a process and end product, but has very little to do with the ingredients.
Russian vodka must be made from Wheat or Barley to use the name.
Though you are quite correct that a clear, diluted alcohol spirit can be made from pretty much anything that'll ferment.
There's a local distillery here in Texas making it from black eyed peas.
Yaay, no more Fergie!
I see the KKK are still operating.
That sounds awesome, as long as they don't use too much of that weird looking Mexican guy.
I don't have any experience with it but for bootleg bathtub vodka wouldn't it be easier/cheaper to use potatoes?
Grains have more concentrated carbohydrates than potatoes (which are largely water). Potatoes were more of a last resort for making alcohol.
Yep. A brewery in the interior makes a potato red ale, and I was going to brew something similar, but you need like 5 pounds of potatoes to give you the same amount of fermentable sugars as a pound of grain.
I haven't been back to Russia for a long time but, when I did live there the bootleggers just bought straight overproof alcohol, diluted it, then bottled it as vodka. As for the home made stuff (like moonshine) no clue, iv only seen one person do that and they used the best ingredients and this was in north america.
It was the Soviet Union in 1984; wouldn't you be turning everything you could into booze as well?
Life under the Soviet Union, especially in the 1980s, wasn't THAT bad. It's not really comparable to Sweden or Norway, but it's not nearly as awful as Russia today.
You're kidding right? The life was so bad that it lead to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Life was not SOO bad is what I'm saying. It wasn't as good as Europe or the U.S., that's why they overthrew the Soviet Union.
However don't forget that they considered American life bad as well. Immensely high crime, racial problems, crippling drug use, slums in every city, oppressive police presence, high unemployment, all of that. But they were willing to have all of that if it meant their freedom from totalitarianism in the USSR, and they got it in the 1990s, except much, much worse.
History of Russia in 1 sentence.
"But then it got worse."
Except the time Russia saved Europe from the Nazis, or Russia before the October Revolution, or... Although who am I kidding, you don't really care about historical facts, just the typical circlejerk.
True to your name, mate.
Also one can argue the October Revolution wasn't the best thing for Russia. And another can argue that The Nazies killing some 20 mil Russians also wasn't a good thing. But what do I know.
Can you read? Russia before the Octomber Revolution. It was thriving back then. Also liberating Europe from the Nazis is of course a better thing than being killed from the Nazis.
And THEN it got worse.
Nope. After the October revolution Russia signed a treaty that got it out of WWI and after defeating the Nazis they won WWII. Although as I said before, you don't care about facts and I won't bother with you any more.
I know these things, bruh. The october revolution wasn't a good thing for Russia overall, neither was WW2. Stalin wasn't a "good guy" during the war, just ask the polish.
That is why things got worse. They might have evened out a little bit but overall "But then it got worse".
Liberation from the Nazis just to be killed by the Soviets was a good thing?
Octomber Revolution
Can you type?
(I don't really have anything invested in this little snarkfest but if you're going to call someone out on their reading skills, you'd best make sure the rest of your comment is immaculate.)
Writing an Reading skills are different maybe? You can make a mistake while writing something, while comprehension is a completely different thing. I wasn't using any technical terms to make comprehension more difficult, and English is the 3rd language I learned, so I don't have to excuse myself. Also, I don't have to spend time and proof-check a comment I made on Reddit. Or maybe you think that by writing Octomber I confused him and he thought it was a vegetable or something?
You got caught with your pants down mate, you can't talk your way out of this one. Better luck next time.
With my pants down? Talk my way out of a grammatical mistake? Of course that mistake made my whole argument invalid. Really, shame on me. Sorry "mate", I'm not twelve.
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That's a good question. Not that he's an authority on cold war Russia (obviously not, of course), but Leo Tolstoy would have said that there couldn't have been a USSR without the conflict with the west that led to the cold war. There couldn't have been a USSR without the cold war.
The USSR was formed during the period of war communism after the first world war, the Cold War didn't really happen until after ww2 (as America was too plagued by prohibition and the great depression to begin an arms race). The USSR was a reaction the the terrible living conditions of pre soviet Russia, and a failure to industrialize. Russia was still mainly Feudal and with capitalism not progressing hardly at all with an entire empire breaking, it caused a pro labor revolution. At this time the US also was nearing a communist/socialist force that could in the near future take over, Germany had a Communist revolution (which obviously failed). I would argue that the Russian revolution was almost entirely due to internal contradictions and conditions within the part feudal part capitalist society.
Immensely high crime, racial problems, crippling drug use, slums in every city, oppressive police presence, high unemployment, all of that
well that's a massive overgeneralization. Wonder what would happen if we did the same thing for the USSR...
I can't figure out whether or not you are being sarcastic. The standard western view of life in the USSR most definitely is as much of an overgeneralisation as that sentence you've quoted.
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So that's a no on the sarcasm, then.
Of course you could, but I'm saying that's what the Russian view of America was. A land with a ton of problems and violence, but also a lot of freedom and a very exciting culture.
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We're talking about the USSR after the 1960s fyi, not Stalin era.
the USSR did not have many racial problems as they were held under the veil of communism. Unemployment was, obviously, non existent. Crime was a fraction of what it was in the US at the time, I remember reading that in 1980 the USSR saw 5,500 murders, compared to nearly 25,000 in the US at the time.
However the USSR also had much worse healthcare, it had a pretty awful education system, and utilities and electronics were outdated and infrastructure was horrible. For the average white American, life was a ton better than the average Soviet citizen.
The USSR didn't have any of these problems, in fact many soviet citizens believed that the alleged crime and poverty in USA was government propaganda.
Most of the USSR was a massive slum under oppressive police presence. Ask non-Russians about racial problems. I guess unemployment wasnt that bad but lots of people worked shitty jobs they couldnt ever change. Drug use did get worse too.
Wasn't it the sixties or the seventies that was the 'golden age' of the SU?
There was the thaw under Krushchev in the fifties and early sixties and that was really the high point of Soviet society. After Brezhnev took power things took a turn for the worse with increased repression and economic stagnation, but it never got nearly as bad as under Stalin.
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Consumer goods is THE barometer for how "life" is. Life cannot be considered good if you're malnourished and wearing rags.
I wouldn't call food a consumer good. I mean shit like cars and blenders and CDs.
And look where we are now. Russia has been run by a former KGB Lieutenant Colonel for over a decade now. If you were to ask the Reagan administration what the worse possible outcome for the fall of the Soviet Union would be, they would tell you KGB hardliners taking power.
It is myopic to pretend that just because they're capitalist now that life must be categorically better. A lot of people's lives, especially women's, have gotten a lot worse since the fall. This doesn't imply that the Soviet Union was a perfect society without fault, just that capitalism is not the unqualified harbinger of freedom and prosperity that so many in the west make it out to be.
Capitalism involves rights and liberties
Oh please, the only liberty capitalism is contingent on is freedom of investment. The past thirty years from Chile to China have made it overwhelmingly clear that it is entirely possible to liberalise markets without any sort of political freedom riding in on the coattails.
If you go by UN studies, he's surprisingly right.
Here's the UN Human Development Index report for 1990, which is as far back as HDI reports go. This is research published by the United Nations Development Programme which assesses nations by health and life expecatncy, education, and average economic power/standard of living, and analyses which countries are developing fastest, which areas countries are suffering in, etc. If you read down to page 111 you see the comparative ranking for all 130 measured nations, from least developed (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Chad, and Guinea being the nations with an overall score <2) up to the most developed (Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, Norway being the nations with an overall score >9.8). The USSR in this chart is ranked at 0.2, ahead of Singapore, South Korea and Portugal (which everyone agrees were modern first-world nations in 1990). Per the United Nations Development Programme report on quality of life, the USSR was at the 25th-highest position in 1990.
Wikipedia has a great table of the most recent HDI report figures. Russia is indeed in a much lower position today -- 57th highest rather than 25th -- and its overall score is lower on all fronts than the USSR's in 1990.
I'm not defending Soviet policy or undemocratic government or anything, I just looked up the stats and figures after reading the argument and thought I should point it out, if willmaster123 is being unfairly mocked.
He is not kidding. Life in the Soviet Union during the 60's, 70's and 80s was much better than Russia Today, don't know how much that is saying though. There was free and good healthcare, housing and education. No unemployment and homelessness either. You can look up the statistics yourself, in the 90's the quality of life in ex-USSR rapidly deteriorated, diseases like TB returned, alcoholism and suicides skyrocketed ... it was a colossal disaster. Americans usually have very very skewed view of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
You can look up the statistics yourself
We all know that Soviet statistics are known for their accuracy and truthfulness!
Also you are a member of ShitStatistsSay retard club so not worth to respond to.
Lol.
If you don't trust the Soviet Statistics look for independent statistics in the post 89s period. They all show a gradual decline in living standards, life expectancy, healthcare and pretty much everything. If the Soviet Statistics were false we will see a sharp drop immediately after the fall of the soviet union, not a gradual decline over years.
Wow, I never thought I'd see the day revisionist historians took on the USSR. This must be what it was like for my grandparents the first time they heard some idiot say the holocaust never happened.
Calling willmaster123 a historian is a bit of a stretch
/r/AskHistorians
What are you saying? The Soviet Union in 1984 wasn't this awful wasteland where the KGB would just murder millions of people like they did in the 1930s. It was not on the status of the first world today, but it wasn't THAT far behind.
According to recent polls, a majority of Russians think that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a great misfortune.
You know,whatever nation lead the union think its great misfortune,but those who sent their money to their capitals think otherwise. Ask a Serbian about Yugoslavia and mostly its gonna be "pity it disbanded".
I wouldn't trust a poll that has come out of Russia.
But I've heard East Germans say similar things, so who knows.
I'm Hungarian and there's significant nostalgia for the Communist system here as well.
its just from lazy people who dont want to work. they just want to be taken care of and drift to sleep.
Are you Hungarian? If not, how would you know?
I'm British and was born after the Fall of the Soviet Union, so I can't really give an accurate opinion.
However, free housing and a guaranteed job doesn't sound too bad to me.
From
In Hungary, the communist system was rather mild after 1956. That's why the country was sometimes called "the happiest barrack in the socialist camp".
Depends on the job. You often had very little say, and it could be hard to change or move.
You like free shelter, three free square meals a day, guaranteed employment and free education? You'd love prison, or maybe even slavery (if you are willing to cut out the education part)!
As opposed to living on the streets and relying on a drug addiction to keep me going, yeah.
and how is this an argument for communism?
What? Free housing and jobs?
The last comment was about the current system.
Majority of Russians also has a huge addiction to "Russia stronk!!!" feelings, which is why the annexation of Crimea raised Putin's approval ratings so incredibly high.
Of course they think that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a great misfortune, they had an empire, power and respect - now they don't, the USSR fell and almost every European nation they occupied jumped at the first possible occasion to join NATO to make sure Russian occupation will never happen to them again.
Of course Russians want the USSR to come back (not the attempted communism, but the power) and the humiliation to go away. That doesn't say anything about the quality of life in the USSR.
And of course, Russians were and are willing to endure lower personal quality of life for this power. Зато Крым НАШ!!!
Were you even alive in 1984?
I was born in Azerbaijan, moved to Grozny in 1987-1988. I lived in the Soviet Union, so please don't tell me you know so much more about it like half of the people here seem to do.
Yea thats the reason there was a "second world" and the only country in that section was pretty much the USSR. I love these people shit talking about other countries when the only thing they know about it is propaganda that the US has fed them.
The "first, second and third world" nomenclature was used to describe political affiliations during the Cold War. First world countries were considered those in the sphere of influence of the West (i.e., NATO countries), second world referred to those under the USSR's sphere, and the third world nations were the sort of "up for grabs" states.
The definitions changed once the cold war ended. We now tend to use them to describe economic conditions, but the definitions aren't rock solid.
There isn't a 2nd world any more, and the term 3rd world is just a synonym of underdeveloped countries (also a Cold War term, from the liberal modernisers of the 60s), or what would have been called 100 years ago uncivilised countries, though nowadays with more "scientific" economical and statistics reasoning behind it. The reason this nomenclature has stuck is the overlap between those two categories, although much of what was the 2nd world is also lumped in, more similar to the older term I mentioned.
The 3rd world of the Cold War weren't all "up for grabs," there was also the quite significant non-alignment movement, of states that didn't want to swear allegiance to either part in the Cold War. Most significantly led by Nasser in Egypt, Tito of Yugoslavia, and Sukarno of Indonesia.
I do hope the "98" isn't the year you were born...
Wow they guy i replied to must have been born in 123, or 23. Holy shit!!!
I'm still not getting used to the fact that people 5+ years younger than me are on the Internet... and it will only get worse.
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How about I trust my own eyes instead?
How can we trust our eyes if our eyes don't exist
Your own eyes?
You've been to the Soviet Union in the 80s?
Good thing there has never been a use of photographs in propaganda.
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North Korea has grocery shops and fat kids eating lollipops I SWEAR!
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it's not nearly as awful as Russia today.
lolwut
Life under the USSR was almost universally better than modern Russia. Don't forget that Russia's economy utterly collapsed, services became non existent, and Russia went into a period of SEVERE malaise. Even with Putins improvements, the wound has not even been close to healed. Russia still has a horrifically high crime rate, and corruption is absolutely rampant.
You do realize that 90's isn't the "modern Russia", right? It's been 15 years since the 90's, in fact.
And for the most part they haven't recovered since. Almost all of the large GDP growth from 2004-2010 was from the oil export industry in Russia, a very small amount of the money went to the average Russian. However living standards have improved since 2000, but not fully.
I mean, I've been living in Russia for the past 30 years. Living standards are 100 times better than they were in the 80's or the 90's.
You are completely delusional.
Let me guess North Korean labor camps really aren't that bad either?
As you can see here, life expectancy dropped rapidly following the collapse.
And here you can see how badly their GDP dropped after the collapse.
So what exactly are you saying?
хули ты из за бугра сидишь и несёшь хуету всякую? в россии не был никогда и пиздит тут. не мешай взрослым разговаривать. иди в песочнице побалуйся, баклан ошпаренный.
Wow way to be aggressive for no reason. Also some of that was def Ukrainian and idk Ukrainian that well
also you don't know anything because it was all russian
Honestly I haven't really spoken and especially read Russian in nearly 15 years. I'm pretty sure a lot of that was Ukrainian from what I remember though. I'm probably wrong.
If you actually believe this you should be forced to live in a totalitarian communist regime.
I did live in the USSR! Born in Azerbaijan and then moved to Grozny, then to America in 1999.
What year were you born? How well do you remember Soviet life? I am from California, first visited the USSR in 1986, and I studied as a grad student at Leningrad State University for a year in 1989. Life in the USSR was appalling, and not just materially. Poverty was the norm around the world, so that was nothing surprising (except that it was in a "superpower"), but the USSR was a sick society. The aggressiveness, the don't-give-a-crapism (pofigism in Russian), the absurdities, the humiliation, the grayness.... It's hard to explain to someone from a normal country. Sadly I don't have time now to tell all my stories, but here is something representative: Gorbachev was trying to fight alcoholism, so he cut the production of alcohol. People began making moonshine, so sugar disappeared off the shelves, and became rationed (one of the six monthly ration coupons that we got in Leningrad). Occasionally people died from bad vodka, including the husband of the woman responsible for my dormitory floor, leaving her alone with a young daughter. She was majoring in History of the Communist Party, and was expected to monitor and report on the dangerous westerners (e.g. me) in the dormitory. This woman was collaborating with the system that had killed her husband and impoverished her and her daughter, and she couldn't even get sugar for her tea.
Watch this video of a Soviet grocery store: http://www.conservativeoutfitters.com/blogs/news/17426181-rare-video-from-1986-showing-the-inside-of-a-soviet-grocery-store I later worked in Russia for 10 years, I still go back often, and many of my friends are Russian or Ukrainian. It is completely nuts to suggest that life in the USSR was better than in Russia today, so insane as to be obviously a provocation; silly me for rising to the bait.
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You have now summarized ways 1-499.
And 499 other things!
Is why Latvia no have potato
Khrushchev promised potato. But the potato was a lie.
such is life.
It is known.
So it goes.
When a Tralfamadorian sees a uncooked potato all he thinks is that the potato is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same potato is just fine in plenty of other moments.
I just read that book. I found it very depressing.
I miss that man.
Potato
Potahtoe
Nice try Quayle
Found the old guys.
GET OWFF MAH LAWN!
Quahl*
Is true
So is cookbook, no one have 500 potato. 500 potato not exist except in dreams.
But if have cookbook, can eat pages and think of potato.
Politburo stole pages from cookbook. And make rape with sister
Such is life.
I count to 500 potato to fall sleep. No sleep, only hunger.
Can use recipes to cook unicorn. Just as like to find as potato.
500 more dreams, 500 more disappoints. Such is life.
He not promise corn?
I had 2 potatoes once. I was arrested as Kulak.
But instead of potato we got gulag.
Is only one potato recipe in Latvia.
Latvian girl is say "I want go America one day." Father is say "I send you America." Daughter is thank father. Make tears of happy. Father use for salty potato. Father think moment, say "Daughter, I no send you America." Potato is more salt.
Best Latvian recipe.
this explains why murica sent military to Latvia
daughter gets to bang niggas just around the corner
father keeps having salt potato
Feckin' Maltese. First they out-Catholic us, now they're trying to out-potato us. Shower of gobshites.
I too have potato blood in my veins.
God damn that's inspiring.
Went to child birthday party.
Children play hot potato.
They throw potato.
No one wants to touch hot potato.
America is backwards place.
evil empires always take away potatos from their smaller neighbors
Ireland got its potatos taken away as well
Lol this reminds me of Bubba and his ways of cooking shrimps from Forrest Gump.
I'm intrigued
As am I.
Of course you find this in an Irish newspaper.
Heh, I couldn't resist.
Reminds me of the old Yiddish folk song "Bulbes", which is a lament about having to eat potatoes seven days a week.
"Sunday potatoes, Monday potatoes
Tuesday and Wednesday potatoes
Thursday and Friday potatoes
Sabbath, for a change, potato pudding
Sunday, back to potatoes."
i was just thinking of this! zuntik bulbes, montik bulbes, dinstik un mitvakh bulbes, donershtik un freitik bulbes, shabbos is a novene, a kugele fun bulbes! zuntik veyter bulbes!
Ba-bum,
Sunday, Monday, potato days-
Tuesday, Wednesday, potato days-
Thursday, Friday, potato days-
Saturday, what a day-
Rockin' on back to potatoes!
Potato days are yours and mine!
Potato days
(Oh tater days)
I served an LDS mission in eastern Ukraine.
I had a companion who found a recipe book like that, bought two 50 kilo bags of potatoes and ate them every day for about a month. Cooked them a different way each day.
He also didn't shower much, rarely washed his clothes, and he only wore one tie for two years.
How many different ways are there to wait in line for them?
Turns out that she can in fact count to potato.
I miss the Gorbachev days when relations with Russia were moving on a positive direction.
Ah yes, 1984. The height of US-Russian relations. When the vodka was unflavored, the men were men, and the constant threat of nuclear annihilation made the sun shine even brighter.
Ahh yes, those days when the sun shone so bright you had to wait a second to see if the sunrise was a nuclear holocaust on the horizon or not. Good times.
we knew who the enemy was and where to find them.
Growing up scared shitless that the Soviets were going to bomb us gave us direction.
mmm, military-industrial complex
and internet
the Soviets were going to bomb us
what would you expect after creating a precedent?
Don't worry, you can just swap communists for muslims and soldier on like nothing ever happened.
I read that as erection...
we knew who the enemy was and where to find them.
Unfortunately the biggest enemy to the general public was in the white house. We should not yearn for the reagan years...or yearn for them with a more benevolent man as president.
And by "direction", of course you mean "ICBM launch coordinates".
Is giving you direction really that great if it gives you the wrong one?
inb4 /r/im14andthisisdeep
It gave you direction. One Direction.
Bit of Fry and Laurie reference?
Only relations. Sadly the economic plans of Gorbachev were among the worst world has ever seen.
were moving on a positive direction
from which side?
You mean when Gorbachev wanted to normalize relations and Reagan went "no, fuck you commie."
Ronald Wilson Reagan is one of the worst things ever to happen to geopolitics.
There must be 300 ways to cook potato...
300 ways to cook potato...
Just make 'em into fries, guys.
How about a boil, Doyle.
You don't need 'em peeled, Neil.
Just listen to me.
Make 'em stuffed, gus.
Ya don't need any sour cream, team.
Just make into mash, Nash.
And enjoy your tater stash.
Mr. Gorbachev
Boil down them pataters.
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This is /r/shitpost material
Latvian potato jokes, mostly.
And irish celebrations
... Potato stew, bbq potato, potato salad, potato sandwich... That's about it.
Okay (continues to scrub floor with toothbrush)
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Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew,
Potatologic by Daft Chefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMMw0rnKz4
Saute, fry, mash, potato cakes, rosti, baked, potato bake, bombay potatoes to name a few.
I've not heard of Bombay potatoes. Are they good?
Mildly spiced, peeled and boiled potatoes. Nice, good alternative to rice if you want carbs accompanying a curry.
Gratin.
That does sound good. I'll try it tonight, maybe.
Yes. It's more or less curried potatoes, here's a recipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GITftnBiIBg
Potato with vodka
Potato with MORE vodka
Potato with MOST vodka
Vodka with potato
In Soviet Russia potato IS vodka!
I'm guessing a lot of them were variations of the same thing. Like fry in vegetable oil, fry in pig fat, fry in some other kind of oil, boil them first makes 6 "different" types etc.
God dammit people, read the fucking article, nowhere does it say "ways to cook." It only mentions recipe.
Her surname was Gorbacheva though.
Most people outside of Slavic countries won't understand why. You could have explained why it matters; she's a woman, her surname ends with an -a to reflect that.
Raisa Gorbachev was reportedly incredibly smart, though not one to suffer fools gladly...heh.
she was also a bit of a tomato, back in the day
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Then Mrs. Gorbachev would likely have you sent to Siberia.
Soviet Premier come to collective farm one day, ask potato farmer how crop is. Farmer says "Comrade Premier, the potato crop is amazing. If you stack potatoes on top of one another, would touch face of God!"
At this, Premier get very upset. He say "Comrade! This is Soviet Union! Here we say God does not exist!"
Farmer smile and say "That OK, potatoes don't exist either!"
Too bad there weren't 500 potatoes in the USSR.
Shots fired.
WW3 started
Such is life.
Strong Soviet Woman, Strong Soviet Soil, Strong Soviet Potato.
Was correct first time. "...more than 300...".
Boil, steam, bake, fry..... I think that's about it
Soup. Hash Browns. Tater Tots, Potato Tornado, microwaved, sun dried, there's at least 400 more.
Except soup is boiling them, tater tots tornado is frying. Also who the hell eats sundried potatoes?
Oh you haven't tried then that way? See? You learn something new every day.
Btw, potato powder ain't bad either. Sprinkle a bit in your coffee to thicken that right up.
You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Potato-kabobs, Potato creole, Potato gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple Potato, lemon Potato, coconut Potato, pepper Potato, Potato soup, Potato stew, Potato salad, Potato and potatoes, Potato burger, Potato sandwich...
By the end of reading that, Potato seems like such a weird word.
In Soviet Russia, potatoes cook you
When you have to imagine good meat (and stand in line for hours to get the poor meat), you better make sure the potatoes make the meal.
500 ways to cook potato, but Secret Police take all my potato.
Boil 'em, mash' em, stick 'em in a stew x100
I really doubt this. I don't think adding things to a potato counts as alternative ways to cook a potato.
I know 3:
eat raw
eat boiled
eat cooked on a pan
note: i rarely eat potatoes because fuck fuck peeling those
eat the skin, you little bitch
I've never said this before..
but.. fuck you, baby_butt_fuck. i wont. skin is for shallow people.
No, but it actually has lots of nutrients and stuff.
eat raw
Toxicity ^^^^(randomly found article about it. one of many.)
i wouldn't eat any of it raw, just in case. no need to try the luck.
I didnt say i would.
but its an option! ive seen a guy do it. he's still alive, if you can believe it.
of course you can eat poison. i just wouldn't expect it to be in a recipe. take fungi, some can even be eaten without being treated and in the same time offer some interesting benefits. nonetheless it would mean you're ingesting poison, and the poison would be the very reason for those effects. but eat too much and you'll be vomiting and dependent on the kind of fungi you'll be dying. so yes, of course i believe you when you say he's still alive.
Don't peel 'em. Wash the potatoes with a soft vegetable scrubber brush and eat the peels too. Or, after you boil them (or better, just microwave them,) cut them in half, and hold each half in an oven mitt face-up, and scoop out the flesh with an ice cream scoop.
Then freeze the potato skins. Later, you can deep fry these, and then put them under a broiler stuffed with shredded cheddar cheese, crumbled crispy bacon, and chopped spring onions. Serve with a scoop of sour cream and chives on the side. Potato skins are good!
Make vodka with potatoes. Trade for Pepsi. Profit.
There are way too many cooks in here.
too many cooks
This would have to appear in an Irish newspaper.
Anyway, like I was sayin', potato is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, potato-kabobs, potato creole, potato gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple potato, lemon potato, coconut potato, pepper potato, potato soup, potato stew, potato salad, potato and potatoes, potato burger, potato sandwich. That- that's about it. + my favourite, shrimp potatoes.
In Latvia this book consider High Fantasy genre...
They had Xbones back then?
Okay, so far REDDIT has only come up with 121 ways to cook potatoes. C'mon guys!
Baked Potato
Baked Potato — w/bacon/cheese
Baked Potato — w/butter/pepper/salt/sour cream
Bangers And Mash
Barbecued Potatoes
Boiled Potatoes
Bombay Potatoes — boil; sautée w/coriander/cumin/ginger/garlic/mustard seed/onion/tomato/salt
Boxty Pancakes — Irish; grated potatoes, soaked to loosen the starch;mixed w/flour/buttermilk/baking powder
Broiled Potatoes
Bryndzové Halušky — Slovakian; finely grated potatoes and flour batter; boiled dumplings; mixed w/veggies, meat
Bubble And Squeak
Burned Potatoes — to a lovely crisp
Candied Sweet Potatoes — bake w/butter/brown sugar/pineapple/marshmellows
Canned Potatoes
Charred Potatoes
Cheese Potatoes
Coconut Potatoes
Colcannon — Irish; mashed potatoes/shredded kale/cabbage/onion
Corn Potatoes
Crispy Smashed Roasted Potatoes
Curley Fried Potatoes
Curried Potatoes
Dauphinoise — slice thin; slow bake w/cream/garlic
Deep Fried Potatoes
Distilled Potatoes
Fish And Chips — lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish
Freedom Fries
Freeze Dried Potatos
French Fried Potatos
French Fries — w/ketchup
French Fries — w/mayonnaise
French Fries — w/mustard
Fried Potatos
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Gorbachev's Boiled Pataters
Grilled Potatoes
Grilled Potatoes — oiled half potato on the bbq
Hash Browns
Hash Browns — boiled; shredded; pan fried
Home Fries
Irradiated Potatoes
Kitten Potatoes — http://imgfave.com/view/1664200
Latkes — potato pancakes
Lemon Potatoes
Locro De Papas — Ecuadorian; thick soup of potato, squash, and cheese
Mashed Potatoes — w/butter/salt/pepper
Mashed Potatoes — w/Gravy
Microwaved Potatoes
Pan-Fried Potatoes
Peeled Potatoes
Pepper Potatoes
Potato Burgers
Potato Cakes
Potato Cerviche
Potato Chips
Potato Creole
Potato Crisps
Potato Dumplings
Potato Gumbo
Potato Ice Cream
Potato Juice
Potato Kabobs
Potato Knishes — dough covered; baked, grilled, or deep fried
Potato Meat Substitute
Potato Milkshake
Potato Noodles
Potato Pancakes
Potato Pudding
Potato Puree
Potato Salad
Potato Sandwich
Potato Skins — bake; scoop out; freeze skin cups; deep fry; stuff w/bacon/cheese; broil; serve w/sour cream
Potato Smiles — mashed potatoes injection-molded into smiley faces; deep fried
Potato Soup
Potato Stew
Potato Sundae
Potato Syrup
Potato Twists
Potato Vodka
Potato Waffles
Potatoes Au Gratin
Potatoes w/ Rice
Powdered Potatoes
Pressure Cooked Potatoes
Puppy Potatoes — http://www.thecuteproject.com/photos/1115/one.cute.baked.potato!/
Raw Potatoes — sliced; salted
Red Potato Mash
Red Potato Salad
Riced Potatoes — http://howtofood.net/gadgets-gizmos-2-2/
Roasted Potatoes
Rösti — Swiss National Dish; shredded potato crispy hash browns
Sautéed Potatoes
Scalloped Potatoes
Scrambled Potatoes
Shepherd's Pie
Shredded Potatoes
Shrimp Potatoes
Skewered Potatoes
Slow Cooked Potatoes
Smoked Potatoes
Sour Cream Potatoes
Spicy and Sour Potatoes — Chinese
Spiral Potatoes
Spun Potatoes
Steamed Potatoes
Stegt Flæsk — Denmark; fried pork potatoes w/ parsley sauce
Stewed Potatoes
Stir-Fried Potatoes
Stove-Top Potatoes
Stuffed Potatoes
Sunnyside-Up Potatoes
Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet Potato Smores
Tater Tots
Tattie Scone — Scottish
Tear-Salted Potatoes — Latvian
Twice Baked Potatoes
Vichyssoise — potato soup
Vodka Potatoes — Russian
Wood Fire Roasted Potatoes
Tu Dou Si — Chinese; http://www.food.com/recipe/tu-dou-si-chinese-style-potatoes-508669
for (IngredientCombination i : worldIngredientList) {
potatoRecipies.add(new BakedPotatoRecipe(i));
}
There you go, that should be several thousand ways to serve baked potatoes
Potato is lie, hallucinate from malnurish
Looks like he got potatowned
Under appreciated.
Everyone knows that the government just rounded up a couple thousand civilians, and said, "Tell me new potato recipe or die," until they had enough to impress.
I guess most of them will be meals that have potatoes in.
It's like releasing a book called '500 Water Recipes'.
I think it's valid to call a recipe with a potato as the central ingredient a "potato recipe."
Well, you could be talking about recipes where the potato is the star attraction rather than the sole ingredient. I'd call hash brown or Dauphinoise ways to cook potatoes, even though they're a recipe rather than a cooking method.
That's quite different from (say) a cornish pasty, which just contains potatoes.
500 is more than 300
Are you sure? You should count it again.
This is the most boring TIL i've ever read. Just saying...
My sincerest apologies that you don't share my sense of humour.
Sorry :/ Maybe if it wasn't about potatoes....
TIL is full of this boring shit. "TIL someone did/said something clever one time."
In Latvia book is fairy tale for childrens. Had cookbook when I was 8. We cooked the book and ate it. Not taste like potatoe. Such is life in Latvia. Also , story is myth. No cook and and eat book. Burn book for heat.
Wow. That is a suspiciously boring anecdote.
454 to go.
500 ways to cook potatoes.
No potatoes.
Such is life. Latvian man sad.
How do you pronounce that?
Racer? Razor?
Edit: Looks like the answer is Rah-ee-sah. Now I know.
Rye-sah
Rye-sa
I'm assuming it's spelled Райса in Cyrillic, and hopefully a native speaker can correct me if I'm wrong.
It's spelled Раиса, where и sounds more like 'i' in ski. Rha-i-sa. You can hear some Raisas here.
Thanks!
never-mind that potatoes are not popular in the united kingdom.
They're really really popular and are eaten at most meals. Mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes. Meat and 2 veg (where 2 of the vegetables is potatoes). Our two national dishes in England cointain potatoes.
Really? Not even mashed potatoes?
Karma Sutra for potato make best pornography cook book.
Happy St. Patrick's Day 1984
And only 300 of them start by turning the potatoes into vodka...
I love how she acted like she one-up'd him, but sadly she showed how miserable life was there.
Tsk. We don't need to.
You see, what we do when we are faced with someone who can't speak the Queen's English is we SPEAK. REALLY. LOUD. AND. SLOW and gesticulate wildly.
More than 300 ways to cook a potato
Reminds me of this old joke: why did the Arabs get the oil, and the Irish get the potato? The Irish had first choice...
There are still more ways to cook shrimp.
But Latvia get no potato :(
What's the book? I want it. Thx.
fascinating
I'm sure that knowledge will be useful to you one day. Probably during a pub quiz.
When my mom told me we named our first family dog after her I didn't think anything of it. I am starting to realize I grew up in a weird family....
3rd generation Ukrainian immigrant checking in. Can confirm
Bubba accuracy.
this fact has turned my life around
Cool.... I guess?
Bulba bulba
Raisa Gorbachev was a very interesting woman in many ways. She was the first wife of a soviet leader to take on a public role. To put that into perspective, people didn't even know for sure if Andropov had a wife until his funeral. People were also somewhat scandalized by her owning an American Express card and enjoying shopping.
I'd say Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, is a good contender for the title of first soviet leader's wife to have a public life.
Such is life.
Are there 500 ways to say potato though
When you're hungry gotta use your imagination
One could say she's the hell raisa
as latvian guy this hard to imagine
why is this on the front page of reddit i refuse to click the link, I don't care about potatoes and I'm irish, that is how hard i don't care about this article
Irish has 500 thousand ways, naturally.
Russia has probably the most fascinating food history of any country. It's really fascinating how much food was influenced by church and later on by, by politicians.
/r/latvianporn
They'll be eating them next!
I thought it was the Germans who were trying to cleanse the population. And I didn't even think they were against the autistic.
I'm glad she apologized for her lies!
Bubba Gump Potato Company?
At least 400 of those are vodka recipes.
This scares me.
Riced is nice.
http://howtofood.net/gadgets-gizmos-2-2/#POTATO_RICER
I can list them all. 1) Vodka... and I forgot the rest.
So the recipes only work in Russia?
Typical woman always having to have these word to win an argument.
Today I Learned I really don't give a shit
Me tribes can cooks salt in 1000000 way!
I can cook water in 100000000 ways!
I like how this thread is turning into /r/circlejerk
Makes you wonder how Europeans got along without new world food? Potatoes,corn,tomatoes,chili peppers,etc. Oh and tobacco
"Corn" (maize) isn't that big in Europe. Chili even less. The others are important.
but,...but tacos..
A Potato Recipe denier offered to cook all 300 potato recipes if anyone could prove that there existed so many. Raisa Gorbachev proved that there are 500 and when the Potato Recipe denier refused to cook the 300 recipes, she sued him and put him on house arrest until he was finished cooking all 500 recipes.
You would think the British, of all people, would know all the ways to make potatoes.
The Irish are not British, they're the potato people.
How do you pronounce that? Is it Ray-suh?
TILBHBIDCAA Today I learned but honesty bro i don't care at all
Boiling them in a soup to save energy and time was probably her most genius idea.
And not dirtying another pan was her second favorite
I'd like to see this cookbook....
Since I'm living in a former USSR country (as an expat), and the strong dollar is causing heavy and steady inflation....
(edit: you know somethings going wrong when the price of the cheapest (alcoholic) beverage rises %50 in one night, in a former soviet country... ^Yelp!)
There is also old Soviet movie called The Girls where young female chef counts ways of cooking potatoes. Pretty entertaining.
I wonder how many of these are really just variations. Boiled potatoes with carrots. Boiled potatoes with turnips. Boiled potatoes with celery. Etc...
Anybody's heard the legend of the potato King?? Cool story
Actually curious. Find the book!
She did say "More than 300" so... she's still right?
once baked, twice baked, three times baked (also Wegmans has delicious three-times-baked-potato salad.)
"500 times baked black crisps"
"ways" to cook a potato and "recipes" for potatoes are different things. You could cook a potato with a tree branch and call it a recipe.
I got 99 problems, but a spud ain't one! Cook me!
How do you say "Bubba" in Russian?
TIL that potatoes are to Russia as codfish is to Portugal
Gorbachev is for male Gorvacheva is for female
She was the most adorable member of the blood soaked commie crowd.
Well WTF are they ?
here is that book (new '92 edition) (a lot of OCR errors though)
1 potato salad
...
100 pumpkin and potato cream soup
...
500 Smazheniki (belorussian potato meal):
boil whole washed potatoes, cool and peel. Sauce: mix flour and fat and fry in a pan until golden, add sour cream, fried onion, salt, then boil for 5-7 minutes. Pour sauce over potatoes and bake in oven.
That book better include a Vodka recipe.
Why the USSR failed:
“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” ― Charles de Gaulle
Imagine how hard it would be to govern a country with 500 recipes for potatoes.
When it's all you have to eat, you get fucking creative. Russia has gone through some rough times, including plenty of famine, it's no wonder they know how to cook potatoes 500 different ways.
Do not forget to include spirit alcohols
That lady was smart as hell. Even had a Ph.D. if I remember correctly. Died much too soon, unfortunately.
Latvia have no potato recipe. Only malnourish. All potato go to Moskva
Yeah... It's not like we had wide selection of other groceries back then...
Objection! There are 500 recipes that include potatoes, not 500 ways to cook potatoes.
And almost 10 taste good!
I wonder how many are repeats of the same dish just slightly altered. Scalloped potatos with cheddar cheese, scalloped potatos with swiss cheese. Mashed potatos with beef gravy, mashed potatos with chicken gravy.
That's like me saying I have over 200 ring tones on my LG flip phone. How impressed are you.
• comrade John what's for breakfast •potatoes comrade • comrade John what's for lunch •potatoes comrade • comrade John what's for dinner •potatoes comrade • why are we only eating potatoes •that's the only fruit of father communism, mother Russia and comrade stalin can provide That's what communism can do ;)
Seriously reddit, I want to buy this book. Where can I get this book?
This is the stupidest post I've seen on this sub in a long time
Who fucking cares if she said there were hundreds of ways to cook potatoes? This post is stupid.
Dude, Margaret Thatcher was a woman.
There are people who doubt she was human.
I would find such a book fascinating. link anyone?
I do however have an issue. "way" to cook and "recipe" are too very different things to me.
WAYS to cook would be things such as "boil" or "bake" or "broil" or "Fry" or "smoke etc..
Recipe is quite different.
so....what?
And they are all bland!
I cannot look at that thumbnail and not see Anthony Hopkins and his ventriloquist dummy from the movie "Magic"
Vital to have a translation NOW. Who holds the archive?
PS potatoes were never Russian (I was never ever served potatoes in Russia), they had turnips, cabbage and all kinds of other essentials - are there even more recipes for those?
Edit - last time in GUM I did get caviare and chips ('fries', for USians). Lovely lunch, but they were just indulging foreigners.
So they have a history of gross underestimates? Potatoes, Ukraine, what next?
who gives a shit?
Gorbarekt
In Latvia, there are 600 ways to into potato cooking.
Of kiddings, there are of no potatoes in Latvia.
But there is no potato to try recipe with
Half of them start "gang rape and murder your way across Europe, and steal potatoes"
It's true. The sacks are then worn by Soviets women.
If I have to request a TL;DR for the title, you're doin it wrong ya fuckin nerd.
You're not even a good troll.
Over 3,800 upvotes? Worst troll ever.
Boil em.
Mash em.
Stick em in a stew.
497 to go.
Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.
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PO-TA-TOES
POTAYTOPOTAYTOPOTAYPOTAYTOPOTAYTOPOTAY
Don't ask the Irish
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Dude
Sweet...
Tagging you as "potato milkshake"
"I can't feed you, so you'll have to starve"
Ftfy
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Yes. The shipping records indicate loads of food being exported to England while the Irish starved. (Bill Bryson: History of Private Life IRRC)
They actually exported a lot of the food that actually was produced in Ireland at the time. I'm not saying there would have been enough food for everyone if they hadn't but it certainly didn't improve the situation.
Fair enough. I'm 3rd gen Irish American so if it wasn't for the famine I wouldn't be here. :p
plastic paddy alert
No, but thanks for playing. We can trace our family tree directly to Brian Boru and are proud of our heritage.
this is the exact comment a plastic paddy would make. cringe.
Well think whatever you want. I know the truth and that's really all I give a shit about. :)
Too soon.
How humorous and original! It came about so organically too
Unlike their crops in 1845!
OOOOOOOOOOO'Burn.
The rest crops bar the spuds were fine, its just that they were shipped off to the British mainland while the Irish starved to death :)
The way it should be
How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
None
Too soon.
Jet fuel can't melt Irish potatoes, Debra
1845 was an inside job!
There is more truth to this than you think.
In 1845 many of the Irish got together in a town just north of Bellavary and discussed manufacturing a disease that would render all competition's crops useless. Thus they hired one of the top farmers in the area to come up with that disease know now as "potato blight".
However the farmer had his own agenda, and decided that they too should be punished for this heinous concoction and thus spread potato blight to all farms.
And, the most harrowing part is, I made this all up.
That was pretty convincing, especially the part where a farmer creates a blight in his barn and spreads it across the country
Well. It wasn't averted by the rich and powerful. Millions of pounds of food left Ireland for England while the people of that country starved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Irish_food_exports_during_Famine
If you mean the government of the time was complicit in letting it happen as the results were seen to be positive for the greater good, that is pretty much documented fact, yes.
:/
I'm irish.....I laughed.....ya bollox!!
During the famine my great-great-grandfather left the family, they found him dead out just past the fence line the next day, he'd left and starved rather then take away food from his family.
To this day when ever we see an English man we murder them, eat them and bury their bones by that same fence line.
How many watermelons does it take to kill an Eritrean?
It's a trick question, it's virtually impossible to hit an Eritrean with a watermelon.
Queue the sad trombone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxCdh1Ps48
Faminism destroys everything!
Idaho about that.
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almost
How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COkrsPzEmrI
You know!
PO TA TOES??
Even you couldn't say no to that.
496 to go.
Even you couldnt say no to that!
Buy em,
use em,
break em,
fix em,
Trash em,
change em,
mail - upgrade em,
Charge em,
point em,
zoom em,
press em,
Snap em,
work em,
quick - erase em.
Potato chip.
Potato chip.
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kill your parents
This made me laugh.
sploosh?
All by the twist it on got me splooshing all over the place.
Fuck it!
Technologic
cellular
modular
interactivodular!
Relevant name.
Oh god that fucking robot, thanks for the image.
Now I will share it with you all
...How do you upgrade potatoes?
GMOs.
Relevant username!
potatologic... potatologic... we're doing a Daft Punk reference, right?
rrrrriight
but "potatologic" (po-ta-to-lo-gic) is a syllable longer than "tech-no-lo-gic".
thats why i came up with po-ta-to-chip.. to keep the beat right lol
subsequent selective jar lip disagreeable repeat pot complete follow rude
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Technologic. Technologic.
Oh, I blew it a little too :(
It's okay, we're all Human After All.
Today's the HAA ten year anniversary, actually.
silky light prick languid chase governor escape hat violet agonizing
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crude
milkshake
494 to go! let's do this
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Irradiate them.
Send then to space.
Nuke them with a bomb!
488 to go!
Shoot them. Fuck them. Boil in Vodka. 485 to go!
Mold them into the shape of a smiley face. 484 to go!
the best kind
I wasn't even joking: at my school cafeteria, they'll sometimes have these things called "potato smiles", which are like fries molded into the shape of smiley faces. It's every bit as creepy as you think it is.
I had those too! They always looked like half-rotten jack o' lanterns. Freaky.
I assume they would be smilier if they were actually, you know, fried. Stupid food laws...
Wow you guys could t even have fried food?
You mean "can't". I'm in middle school, yet it's a miracle that I'm so above the influence as I am! Everyone else uses Spotify and their phones to listen to music. Me? I've got a freakin' Sports Walkman! But, yeah, state laws apparently mandate that all food that's normally fried be baked instead if it's for consumption in schools.
cringe
You cringe, but I've got the good stuff! Everything from Aerosmith (Toys In The Attic, Greatest Hits, and Nine Lives) to ZZ Top (Afterburner)!
Good god. You're quite possibly the epitome of hipster.
Well, I don't wear a scarf. I'm probably the epitome of teenage nerd, seeing as how I own an absurd number of action figures.
You just realized how lame scarves are before all the other hipsters, that's why you're the epitome of hipster. All trends will be because you decided to do something.
Well, if no one did anything except eat and sleep, it would be a boring world, wouldn't it?
/r/lewronggeneration
Wow I bet you're so cool!
I'm sorta cool. If one really cool kid is like Tom Cruise, all A-list and such, I'm like Tim Allen, an A- lister.
Those are hella gross, they're not even proper fries. They're shitty mashed potatoes injection-molded into smiley faces and then partially deep fried.
they sell them in canada
That means positive torsion strain.
Also nuke them from orbit, just to make sure they're cooked.
A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune!
Every formation a parade. I LOVE THE CORP!
1.Send potato to space in a piece of shit with numerous faults.
2.Let the potato curse you as it hurtles to earth with no parachute.
3.Potato burned to lovely crisp.
4.Take photograph of burnt potato on a table with soviet authorities looking solemn
Too soon?
???
Vladimir Komarov
Man I admit that was very unfunny looking at the comment I made.
No salt Salt
[repeat for many more spices and spice combos]
If we're going that route, should be easy. We can make it even simpler.
1 grain of salt
2 grains of salt
3 grains of salt
No salt, no potato. Only malnourish.
Comrad do nots fret. Jump in fire. Warm for rest of life!
Then comrade is dead. Such luck!
Is no more malnourished
Only ~~malnourish~~ Irish.
Is not even malnourish, is halusinashun of malnourish from try eat rokk.
Fuck's no salt salt. That's just no.
That doesn't even make sense and I agree with you.
Salt is kill
No
Vodka.
You can bake, fry, or grill em
But for sake don't distell em
Or I'll be hugging the toilet tonight.
Cab Calloway?
No, sake is made out of rice, not potatoes.
4- potato drag
5 - arm bar
6 - the moss covered, three handled family grudunzle
7 - arm bar
8 - the saskatchewan spinning potato
9 - potato slam
10- arm bar
1004 - arm bar
Whats this? Potatomania?
Chris Jericho invented potatoes.
I feel like I should get this reference but my brain meats aren't coming up with anything.
Shrimp soup
Shrimp gumbo
Shrimp stew
Fried shrimp
Shrimp an' rice
Shrimp in a cocktail
Shrimp an potatoes..........
that's pretty much all the shrimp recipes.
This... Sounds like a much better version of 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
Boil 'em with butter
Mash 'em with butter
Stick 'em in a stew with butter
Come on guys we can do this.
Mmmm I reckon ill have some dem French fried taters mmhmm.
A word from the wise
Thats shramp.
The potato of the sea!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQVFZx7XX4
Well this site has almost 350...
http://allrecipes.com/recipes/side-dish/potatoes/
This site is definitely not russian.
Soon comrade, soon.
yet!
Da
Maybe it is and it's just really, really good at hiding it.
Well this one has 206 recipes AND it is Russian.
http://www.gotovim.ru/recepts/garnish/potato/
That goes back to what someone pointed out above. That counts each combination of seasonings as a new recipe, even when they are actually cooked the same way. It is very much like claiming each potential combination of toppings you could put a a baked potato is a new way to cook a potato.
I have over 100 recipes just for making french fries. But I guess some might say there is no difference between mashed potatoes and garlic mashed potatoes.
Source: Grew up in Canada's Ireland/Lithuania, many potato based dishes.
Garlic mashed potato? Tell me more.
EDIT. Never mind http://allrecipes.com/video/3110/roasted-garlic-mashed-potatoes/detail.aspx
Just start roasting heads of garlic every time you use the oven, add that to softened butter, add that to anything, its amazing.
You mean Newfoundland?
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Can you stop screaming? Inconsiderate...
That's what she said.
Raw
You forgot fry em.
Pot-a-toes
add heat to it
499 more to go
TIL Hobbits are from Russia
like it wasn't obvious she meant prepare, not cook. Also, boil, bake, deep fry, pan fry, pressure cook, microwave, roast, grill, bbq, slow cooker, etc.
Boil em.
Stick em like a stuck pig.
Mash em in a stew.
496 to go.
A "recipe" would be a way to use a potato. Ways to COOK a potato are fairly limited as our hobbit loving friend has made clear.
"No one boils a potato like yer ma..."
THWACK
"hnnnnnhhhh..."
/gameofthronesreference
Fry them!
You can roast them too.
PO-TA-TOES
PO-TA-TOES
PO-TA-TOES
PO-TA-TOES
Add salt to each, and you have six. Add pepper to the six, and you have 12. Add butter to each of the 12, and you have 24. With butter but no salt and pepper, 48. With butter and pepper but no salt, 96.
I think it can be done.
I feel a new Daft Punk song incoming!
/repeat 499 times
Chop them and microwave them to make potato chips.
We're on a roll here.
wat
watt*
with this
Omg, my dad had one of these way back in the day and the plastic just ended up melting and warping around the potatoes after a couple of uses.
...but he'd always buy another because he really dug 2 or 3 rounds of microwave potato chips.
What's confusing?
You chop up a potato into thin slices, throw some olive oil and salt on them and you microwave them.
You can look it up if you think I'm lying. I've done it before.
Someone else posted a plastic doohickey designed for this, so I no longer doubt it's possible. It's just that chips are normally deep fried. Do they turn out good? I'm imagining potato leather instead of a crispy chip, but that must be wrong, or it wouldn't be a thing.
In soviet Russia potatoes boil you.
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Thank you for your suggestion.