Bacon or Potatoes?

[Celandine]

Do you like bacon or potatoes better? I like potatoes better than bacon. Because bacon is all fatty and gross in my opinion.

[Elven Archer]

Hmmm....... if it's just bacon and not the pig then i like potatoes better. cause they come in tots, hashed, mashed, baked, frenched, soup, wedges, salad, and that's all i can think of right now. but bacon has all that fat on it and it's all greasy. of course if you deep fry potatoes then they're even more unhealthy than before. I like potatoes better.

[galadriel88]

Bacon for breakfast, potatoes for everything else.

[Liviaine]

Potatoes in any shape or form.

[Aeryn]

Bacon, because bacon is fat not just fat but saturated fat BUT potatoes, in any shape or form is CARBOHIDRATES!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

Hmmmmmmmmmm. Good question. I like both. Alot.

[Aeryn]

Lol, well, that's just great Ma Uai!

[katya]

potatoes!!! yummy!!! I like them mashed, fried especially, and raw. Raw potatoes are good actually. I won't eat bacon because i am a vegetarian. Or am I a vegetarian because i don't eat bacon (and other meat)? In any case, I vote for potatoes.

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

Lol, well, that's just great Ma Uai!
I'm a simple man.

[Aeryn]

Awww, (?) *I beg you not to ask*

What is it that is so appealing (forgive the pun) about potatos anyway?

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

Appealing! a-pealing! Ha! It's funny!

But seriously, potatoes are so bland that they make the perfect platform for other delicious things like butter and salt or sour cream and cheese.

[Aeryn]

They are bland that's why I dont like um. I only like baked tato's with sour cream and cheese and green onion shaving to make it purdy. :D

[BeardofPants]

Neither. Although, I DO like gnocchi a lot.

[Elenka]

Potatoes: sure, if they're mashed with out their skins, and then with a lot of salt and pepper and butter.

[Duddun]

I love bacon and I like some potatoes if they have a lot junk on them. Lots of salt.

[Varda Oiolosseo]

Both!
Bacon sandwiches with Tomato ketchup is just lovely!!
But Potatoes are nice to!! I especially like them mashed!! Oh and Potato waffles and smilies and wedges are all nice too!!

Oh desicions, desicions!!

[katya]

i like the blandness of potatoes. i like plain potatoes (actually i prefer them without butter) and plain bread, etc. potatoes are also a good thing with corn.

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

potatoes. not that i would even consider eating dead pig. though back when i did eat meat, well, i did like bacon :o but i would still say potatoes. :D

[Coney]

Bacon, it's easier to cook:D

Potatoes are too bland and boring..........sweet spuds, on the other hand, are great:cool:

[Duddun]

Potatos are easier to cook, Bacon always sizzles to much, but I like bacon more.

[Khadrane]

Bacon is delicious. I could eat fifty pounds of it. (I don't, but I could.) I don't mind mashed potatoes, but I really dislike baked potatoes. They're just nasty!

[Aeryn]

Originally posted by Coney
Bacon, it's easier to cook:D

Potatoes are too bland and boring..........sweet spuds, on the other hand, are great:cool:

AMEN!! (bland!) Sweet spuds? Yams?

[Coney]

Originally posted by Aeryn
Sweet spuds? Yams?

Yeah, sweet taters are yams:) (is it only in the UK they are called Sweet Potatoes?:confused: )

[Aeryn]

No, but I personally don't refer to tato's as spuds . I kept thinking the bubbly soapy stuff, suds. :D

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[Coney]

Originally posted by Aeryn
Cones, Like the Avatar. ;)

Ta, it's the expression I've adopted since my workload tripled recently:( ..............yeesh I never used to be this responsilbe, normally it would go in the bin:rolleyes: ;)

Anyhow, back to the Bacon and Spuds............................>>

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by Coney
Yeah, sweet taters are yams:) (is it only in the UK they are called Sweet Potatoes?:confused: )

In NZ, sweet potatoes are kumara not yams.... <more useless information>

[Khamûl]

From "Song of the South" by Alabama:Song, Song of the South, sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth... Personally, I prefer potatoes to bacon because of the variety of ways you can eat potatoes. Mashed, french fries, potato chips, scalloped, etc.

[Elven Archer]

I like that song! but i think sweet potato pie tastes more like pumkin pie.

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

How about bacon bits on a baked potato? Best of both worlds.

[Aeryn]

Bacon bits are gross. They are freeze dried chemical made crap! I like it natural, real bacon on Baked potatoes.

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

That is what I was going for actually. I agree, bacon bits are crap, but bits of real bacon is what I meant.

[Aeryn]

Amen then! Right on~ and so forth.

[Nibs]

Originally posted by Aeryn
Bacon bits are gross. They are freeze dried chemical made crap! I like it natural, real bacon on Baked potatoes.
Oh, I dunno... it seems to me that they do a pretty good job simulating the grease-salt mixture into a dry container... it's probably even healthier.

And I find it funny... you say they're gross, implying that you've eaten them, and you go on to call them crap... you can guess what comment may follow... teehee :p .

But all this is like saying "peanut butter or jelly?" They're complimentary, in my book. They go hand-in-hand, they're two birds of a feather, and you can't spell potatoes without "toes".

[Aeryn]

Ah, yes, this from Mister Perfecto Grammar. Pardon me. :p

[Duddun]

Originally posted by Nibs
Oh, I dunno... it seems to me that they do a pretty good job simulating the grease-salt mixture into a dry container... it's probably even healthier.

And I find it funny... you say they're gross, implying that you've eaten them, and you go on to call them crap... you can guess what comment may follow... teehee :p .

But all this is like saying "peanut butter or jelly?" They're complimentary, in my book. They go hand-in-hand, they're two birds of a feather, and you can't spell potatoes without "toes".
I don't always think of them as complimentary to eachother, they can be good alone.

[Ërendil]

I like both potatoes and bacon, but I think that potatoes are just a little bit nicer.

[Curunír]

i like it both. Most of all together.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

I like both potatoes and bacon. Bacon is simply THE breakfast meat, and I like potatoes mashed, raw, etc. (baked are ok, but not my favorite), and let's not forget french fries! :D But I probably would say that I like bacon better, except for french fries. They pretty well make it an even match.

[Curunír]

I totally agree with thee, except that my breakfast meat is saucisses. :p

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Sausages are okay, but no match for the all-tasty bacon in my opinion.

Mmm, how long has it been since I've had a good, traditional breakfast? Or actually, any breakfast?

[Elven Archer]

isn't sausage made of pig? and bacon's made of pig.
last time i had a traditional breakfast was a couple months ago, bacon,eggs,biscuits,gravy,grits,sausage,and orange juice.

[Curunír]

Saucisses can also made of horse, chicken en cow. :) My favourite is horse.

[claudia silver]

Sorry to be a smug vegetarian but pigs apparently have the intelligence of a three year old.

It would be like eating my nephew............but then again ;)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Actually, I believe that pigs are among the more intelligent of animals, as hard as that may be to believe. :rolleyes:

[Elven Archer]

i think a pig can actually be house broken faster than a dog. and a pig once saved a woman's life....or so she said.

[Coney]

Originally posted by Elven Archer
i think a pig can actually be house broken faster than a dog. and a pig once saved a woman's life....or so she said.

Piggy the Wonder Hog?:D


*Grunt, Snuffle*

"Wot's that Piggy?..........Little Billy's fallen down a mineshaft and broken his leg?"

Strange I'll eat pork sausages ok but Curunir's suggestion of horse sausages seems pretty repulsive:( (or have I just missed yet another obvious joke :confused: )

[Aeryn]

Billy? I thought it was Timmy? Sheesh. Sausage is okay as long as it's pattys

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by claudia silver
Sorry to be a smug vegetarian but pigs apparently have the intelligence of a three year old.


Woot! Another vegetarian! :) (Yes, we are trying to take over the world.;))

[Silverstripe]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Woot! Another vegetarian! :) (Yes, we are trying to take over the world.;))

Yep! I knew that.:D

[Coney]

Originally posted by Aeryn
Billy? I thought it was Timmy? Sheesh.

Well, if a certain wonder-dog had said it yes, it normally would be Timmy..........but it is a well known scientific fact that pigs, even one's as wonderful as Piggy, cannot pronounce the letter T. ;)

[elendili]

uuuummmmmmmmmmm..........

Bacon butties withketchup and melted butter oozing out, full of fatty goodness

Primates are far more intelligent than pigs, several gorillas and chimps can communicate using sign language so you'd think that they're more brainy

[Curunír]

Originally posted by Coney

Strange I'll eat pork sausages ok but Curunir's suggestion of horse sausages seems pretty repulsive:( (or have I just missed yet another obvious joke :confused: )

It's no joke!
Is it so abnormal??? :eek: :confused:

[Gwaimir Windgem]

It kind of sickens me, too. I love horses! (and not filleted, baked, or fried!)

[Coney]

Originally posted by CurunÃ*r
It's no joke!
Is it so abnormal??? :eek: :confused:

Nah it's just a cultural thing;) ........... We dont eat horse-meat in the UK......:) (not that I know of anyway 'corned beef' in a tin is certainly suspect).

[Silverstripe]

How interesting that this topic has suddenly turned into a controversial issue!

[claudia silver]

Originally posted by Coney

Strange I'll eat pork sausages ok but Curunir's suggestion of horse sausages seems pretty repulsive (or have I just missed yet another obvious joke )

Species-ist :p :D

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

Hey claudia silver! If you are a vegiterian, why is you're avatar a wolf? They are very much the carnivirous type.

[claudia silver]

Ma Uai: Ua Nemti Hey claudia silver! If you are a vegiterian, why is you're avatar a wolf? They are very much the carnivirous type.

I don’t have a problem with animals killing other animals for survival.

[Coney]

Originally posted by claudia silver
Species-ist :p :D

I read Black Beauty as a child.............never wanted horse-meat since:o ;)

'Tis strange what folks in different parts of the world consider to be acceptable food tho..............only a century ago we were still gulping down 'Sweetbreads' as delicacies:eek:

The longer this thread gets the more I fancy a plate of potatoes:D

[Shadowfax]

bacon is GROSS!:eek:

[Elven Archer]

Nah it's just a cultural thing ........... We dont eat horse-meat in the UK...... (not that I know of anyway 'corned beef' in a tin is certainly suspect). I don't think people in America eat horse sausages. i've never heard of it anyway.

[Varda Oiolosseo]

Finally decided!! Potatoes!!!
There are far more varieties!
I've just had some Hash Browns and they are lovely!! so that partly helped me decide!

[Blackboar]

Definately potatoes!
Chips, hashbrowns, roasts etc etc etc

I love them all but mash!

[Radagast The Brown]

I think I prefer potatoes. But that just because I like chips more then bacon. :rolleyes:

[Blackboar]

Why is this such a popular thread!

I love meat, just not bacon!

[gimli-son-of-gloin13]

I think i would have to say potatoes because they can have different tastes and you can put BACON bits on them...mmm bacon bits

[Varda Oiolosseo]

Mashed Potato is by far the best!!!! :D

[Blackboar]

I don't really like mashed potato! In fact I like nearly any other potato but it!!
I hate eating wondering when a lump is going to come up!

Strange because I love lovelove love!!!!! LUMPY GRAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Varda Oiolosseo]

I don't like lumpy gravy! that's one thing I deffinately don't like! Have you had Mashed Potato with Carrot mashed in it? That is just lovely!! :p :)

[Curunír]

Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
It kind of sickens me, too. I love horses! (and not filleted, baked, or fried!)

But I love horses too! I found it a form of respect to the horses. The indians did it too. Use so many as possible when their dead.

My English is bad today... :rolleyes:

[Bunnie_Queen_1146]

i like potatoes because u can make lots of things out of them (fries,potatoe wedges etc....)

[IronParrot]

Bacon and potatoes.

[TheRingIsMine]

potatoes! because i don't like meat.

[Elvellyn]

Hmm...sometimes I lke bacon, sometimes I like potatoes, but most of the time I like them both.:D

[Linaewen]

Potatoes, because they are so versatile, yummy and famous (they were in LotR, after all)
Go potato salad!

[Baby-K]

Originally posted by Khamûl
From "Song of the South" by Alabama: Personally, I prefer potatoes to bacon because of the variety of ways you can eat potatoes. Mashed, french fries , potato chips, scalloped, etc.

Err - apologies for dredging up the past, but Khamûl, yer gonna have to go back & call those babies Freedom Fries...:D

Oh btw - just to add to the numerous "and your point is...' posts by moi - if memory serves (and it usually does) Ireland was the only country ever to experience a potato famine (I think it was 1844 - 1849)

Sorry, I'm hogging the thread.............:D

Go potato salad!

I hate potato salad, best way to have 'em is in a potato bake

(cut them in slices after boiling them with skins on, then bake in greased ovenproof dish topped with mushrooms, fried onion, garlic, green pepper (or bell peppers to you), some chilli, bacon and cheese, then pour a little cream over & bake for about 15 minutes at 180ºC) talk about carbo load - very yummie when you have the munchies ;)

[Linaewen]

I hate potato salad, best way to have 'em is in a potato bake

(cut them in slices after boiling them with skins on, then bake in greased ovenproof dish topped with mushrooms, fried onion, garlic, green pepper (or bell peppers to you), some chilli, bacon and cheese, then pour a little cream over & bake for about 15 minutes at 180ºC) talk about carbo load - very yummie when you have the munchies

I'll try that. It sounds yum. What's wrong with potato salad? I mentioned it because i don't think anyone else mentioned it; mash potato is just too popular. But i like that too.

[Baby-K]

Originally posted by Linaewen
I'll try that. It sounds yum. What's wrong with potato salad? I mentioned it because i don't think anyone else mentioned it; mash potato is just too popular. But i like that too.

There's nothing inherently wrong with potato salad, I just don't like it much. Hate mashed potatoes - that's just plain gross, sorta like lumpy baby food blech, I learned to chew a long time ago thank you very much. (and I really mean hate it, with a passion that burns like the fire of 10 000 volcanoes)

Oh btw - if yer gonna make the dish you have to chop the onions, mushrooms, peppers & bacon into small bits & fry them together (that's why it only takes 15 mins, everything is already cooked just needs to be heated & the cheese melted)

[Linaewen]

Thanks... *drools*
Also, why doesn't it show your name at the bottom of the Entmoot page? Are you signed out? (sorry- newbie still trying to learn the ropes)

Hate mashed potatoes - that's just plain gross, sorta like lumpy baby food blech, I learned to chew a long time ago thank you very much. (and I really mean hate it, with a passion that burns like the fire of 10 000 volcanoes)

Wow. If you hate a food item with such passion, I wouldn't like to see what you might write in the venting thread!

[Baby-K]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Thanks... *drools*
Also, why doesn't it show your name at the bottom of the Entmoot page? Are you signed out? (sorry- newbie still trying to learn the ropes)

Because I'm a figment of your imagination ;)

[Linaewen]

Because I'm a figment of your imagination

I doubt it. My imagination couldn't make up someone like you (person with vendetta against mash potato) or that picture (your avatar) if it tried really hard.

C'mon, out with the truth. I've seen you do this a lot!

[gimli7410]

potatoes definetly. especially the lebanese kind.

[support_your_local_elf]

Neither. I really don't like potatoes and I despise bacon. And that's quite a feat if you leave in E. TN.:p