# Mashed potatoes Poll
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 14, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593 "2003-01-14T21:39:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/1 "2003-01-14T21:39:50Z")
With the jacket or peeled?
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/2 "2003-01-14T21:41:43Z")
Peeled.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/3 "2003-01-14T21:42:24Z")
Peeled.
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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/4 "2003-01-14T21:42:45Z")
Peeled. I’ll sometimes make an exception for red potatoes, but I usually use Yukon Gold.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/5 "2003-01-14T21:43:03Z")
Peeled
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### Author:  [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/6 "2003-01-14T21:43:40Z")
Peeled. Any other way, unpeeled.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/7 "2003-01-14T21:44:12Z")
I forgot to put my own preference.
With jacket if I’m cooking for myself. Peeled if my son is with me.
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/8 "2003-01-14T21:46:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Homebrew \*
> \*\*With the jacket or peeled? \*\*
You need a third choice: Instant
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/9 "2003-01-14T21:51:11Z")
Peeled…or :gasp: Instant, never with the jacket on…
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/10 "2003-01-14T21:52:05Z")
Peeled,unless they’re the ones with the very thin skin. I started not peeling them because it was less work.
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/11 "2003-01-14T21:58:24Z")
Peeled.
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### Author:  [@bobblehead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobblehead)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/12 "2003-01-14T22:07:06Z")
With the jacket, of course! As an Idahoan I feel it is my duty! 😃
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### Author:  [@phlebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phlebert)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/13 "2003-01-14T22:09:26Z")
mostly peeled (little bits of the skins for that steakhouse-chunky style). whether idaho or yukon gold:)
A few reds thrown in with skins are also really good.
but who buys 3 different kinds of pototoes to make mashed potatoes:smack:
ahem…
mostly peeled.
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### Author:  [@montana\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montana_cricket)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/14 "2003-01-14T22:24:01Z")
Okay, well, maybe if you have 3 different kinds left from other stuff…😛
I like them peeled, but would agree that the thin skinned kind mashed with lots of roasted garlic are AWESOME!
But then, I like all kinds of potatoes!
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/15 "2003-01-14T22:30:01Z")
With the jackets, without any Quayloes.
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/16 "2003-01-14T22:36:14Z")
Instant?? The sacrilage!
Peeled. Any other way, jacket.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/17 "2003-01-14T22:41:20Z")
Peeled. I HATE mashed potatoes with skins in. I’m convinced that this is a Conspiracy by the restaurant business, who think that they are showing us that they use REAL potatoes, not instant.
I don’t like the jackets in any sort of potato dish, though nostly I just eat around them.
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/18 "2003-01-14T22:42:37Z")
Never instant!!!
And usually not peeled. It always amazes me to watch the scene in _Angela’s Ashes_ where the mother of a starving family is _peeling potatoes._ For God’s sake, woman, that’s where all the nutrients are! You’re wasting food!
So give me peels and lumps in my mashers, with lots of garlic and butter, and cream, if there’s any in the house. Mmmmmm, tatoes . . .
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### Author:  [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/19 "2003-01-14T22:47:50Z")
Leave dem peels in there, folks! And add lots of garlic while you’re at it.
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### Author:  [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mashed-potatoes-poll/148593/20 "2003-01-14T22:48:49Z")
Peeled.
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