Continuing the discussion from Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) - #10002 by Frodo.
Previous discussions:
As I was saying before being rudely interrupted by Discourse:
It’s not a poll but it looks like a poem.
- What is a poem? What is a poll?
- No discussion in the poll thread
- Ceci n’est pas un poll·m.
- No poll in the discussion thread
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You scared the hell out of me, seeing a poll under my post I thought I had mistakenly posted in the “Polls Only” thread!
well, you were the first (real) poster in the Part 3 thread
Ceci n’est pas une discussion.
(Pardon my franglish).
I would totally abuse the “choice of toppings” feature on the baked potato; filet minion, roast veggies, and a glass of merlot on top, please.
I have some spoon rests that say “SPOON” in big white letters.
My husband got our label maker and took it upon himself to slap on a label that says (this is not a) and below, of course, it says SPOON.
He thinks he’s hilarious.
I think Fear_Itself likes potatoes way too much. If I wanted a magical food machine it would make something really special. Maybe crab cakes or roast goose or stuffed flounder, or any of a thousand things that are more difficult to prepare than any kind of potato.
That said, I voted for “choice of toppings” 
Mashed potatoes in a heartbeat.
Tough choice, but I like the flexibility of choosing toppings. Had they been rigidly assigned, I’d have gone for mashed with gravy.
I picked the potato salad. But I’m assuming it’s made in the ways that I like it, never in the ways that I don’t.
Choice of toppings. I’d game the shit out of it - load the potato with things I can eat, then toss the potato.
I’m torn on the potato poll. I don’t like potatoes very much. I do like tater tots and crispy fries, but they are not terribly healthy. And i suspect if we had that magical potato machine, there’d be an awful lot of nights when it seemed easier to just eat potatoes, rather than cook something real. So French fries or tater tots would probably lead to a significant decrease in the quality of my diet.
So… I guess baked potatoes with toppings is the most likely to give us something resembling “real food”. Shame that i don’t much like potatoes, but that’s probably the choice. And maybe do what @silenus suggests. Hey, potatoes are probably good for the compost pile. (But if they were there, I’d probably eat some.)
(I haven’t voted, yet.)
Verbatim what I was ruminating on, I’ll just second puzzlegal’s post.
For that poll I chose to believe there would be zero health effects. And let’s get real, after the initial joy of mashed potatoes every night, it would probably taper off to like once a week.
You may be less lazy than i. I would feel no joy at mashed potatoes every day, but if they were just there, always ready and available, i expect I’d eat a lot of it.
(To be clear, when there are lots of other choices, like Thanksgiving, i usually skip the mashed potatoes.)
“I like baked potatoes. I don’t have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I’ll just throw one in there, even if I don’t want one, because by the time it’s done, who knows?” - Mitch Hedberg
I do have a microwave, but a conventional oven produces much better results. So if this magic machine produced a perfectly cooked baked potato with no waiting, then it’s baked potato all the way.
Yeah, that’s just what my body needs, a magic machine that yeets me a tater whenever I want one.
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I chose baked potatoes, but only because of the toppings. I do not believe I would ever get tired of baked potatoes or mashed potatoes, or of hashbrowns if they were proper hashbrowns and not crispy potato patties.