pasta or potatoes - what do you prefer?

pasta or potatoes - what do you prefer?

 

Here it is question where you really have to make a decision.

There is no "both" or "other" - on purpose.

 

I never have to peel the noodles.

 

oof... thats a tough one. Pasta if I'm at home, potatoes if I'm camping. Its hard to beat potatoes wrapped in foil cooked in the hot coals of a campfire.

(yes, I know cooking in tinfoil is bad for you. everything in moderation...)

 

I picked potatoes though potato salad is the only way I really like them. My pasta days are behind me. I ate so much in college because it was cheap that I could do without for the rest of my life I think.

 

and if I'm making mashed potatoes, the peels stay in!!!

 

That is a very good argument!

 

Here's the other side of that astute argument. If you drop and spill the potatoes on the way to the boiling water, you don't have to find the broom and dustpan!

Aren't you glad I got a university education!

 

In Germany it is like this:
There is a dividing line called "Nudelgrenze" or noodle frontier.

North of the River Main people prefer potatoes, South of the River Main they prefer noodles.
This may just be a cliché, but there is a lot of truth in it.

So the Northerners are called "Kartoffel-Fresser" (potato eaters) and the Southerners "Nudel-Fresser" (noodle eaters).

 

Votes so far:

2 x noodles
1 x potatoes

 

Where did you guys drive your rice eaters? Anrum, or Borkum
(sorry I am in one of my 'I am so clever/ witty moods'. My kids always run away when I am like this)

 

I think that the rice eaters are equally distributed in North and South.
I also like rice a lot!

 

Depends on the situation.

can’t choose without more information.

 

Do you want to tell me that you do not know what pasta and potatoes are?

 

So far:

2 x past
1 x potatoes

A meagre result.

Do you think that clicking onto an option is very hard work?


I find it disappointing how polls are ignored here.

 

85 views so far - and just 3 votes.

Really disappointing.

 

Not enough information.

Is it breakfast? Dinner? A picnic? What is the main protein?

You are presenting a false choice.

 

I can't think of a desirable dinner where potato is the main entre yet there are many pasta entres that I count as my favorite entres, The other side of the coin is I would sure take a hot dog with fries over a hot dog with pasta. If I could only live my life with one of the two I would take pasta.

 

NO!

The question is of course always: In general - on average.

Every child could answer that.

Here some like to play difficult .....

 

Now:

99 views and 4 votes

 

With breakfast - potatoes
With dinner - pasta

Helpful?

 

My vote goes to pasta

 

I didn't know that cooking in foil is unhealthy-- is that because aluminum gets into the food?
Here's a possible work-around, for camping: also bring corn on the cob. Not only is it delicious, cooked in its husk, buried in the dirt at the fire's edge, but you could afterward re-wet the husks, and use them to wrap the potatoes.

 

The most nutritious part. And the tastiest-- but I've never tried them in mashed potatoes; without shredding them, I would think this might compromise the consistency of the mash, which is that style's biggest selling point.

 

Yeah, at that point, they are more like smashed potatoes. With the skin, the potatoes need to stay lumpy.

Whipped potatoes with the skin? Hmmmm.