# Stove Top \[stuffing\] instead of potatoes! How common were potatoes?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stove-top-stuffing-instead-of-potatoes-how-common-were-potatoes/605562 "2011-12-08T22:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stove-top-stuffing-instead-of-potatoes-how-common-were-potatoes/605562/81 "2011-12-10T17:02:19Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Your TV dinners never contained potatoes? Granted, I have very limited experiences with TV dinners, and have consumed probably five in my entire life, but it was my understanding that potatoes and some meat-like substance is all TV dinners were. You get a slab of grey colored meat covered in gravy, a hunk of goo that supposed to be mashed potatoes, and then maybe corn or something. I know I said I didn’t remember what was in them the times I ate them (though as I said it was usually Stouffer’s, which tend to be one-item and not a multicourse meal) I just remembered what was in nearly all of them: A brownie. And it usually had a few peas or something cooked into it from a nearby compartment of the tray. The brownies were pretty gross. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stove-top-stuffing-instead-of-potatoes-how-common-were-potatoes/605562/82 "2011-12-10T17:03:33Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Wow so I’ve outlived everyone! I don’t feel that I am missing anything being a vegetarian. Oh and I can’t eat stove top because it has chicken broth in it. I\*\* eat propitiate farm\*\*. Pepperidge Farm. Stupid tapatalk autocorrect! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stove-top-stuffing-instead-of-potatoes-how-common-were-potatoes/605562/83 "2011-12-10T17:05:16Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Well, that makes this whole potato-ignorance of yours even stranger. About 90% of TV Dinners have mashed potatoes as a side dish. As I said a few posts ago, my frozen dinners were usually Stouffer’s, and were something like “french bread pizza” (I had that one A LOT) or lasagna or some other one-course thing. I occasionally but rarely got the aluminum tray with different courses in it kinds of dinners. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stove-top-stuffing-instead-of-potatoes-how-common-were-potatoes/605562/84 "2011-12-10T17:15:05Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Wow so I’ve outlived everyone! I don’t feel that I am missing anything being a vegetarian. Oh and I can’t eat stove top because it has chicken broth in it. I eat propitiate farm. Propitiate Farm! I love it! That’s every smug locavore’s dream food source! I’m going to steal that and use it somehow. > [@OpalCat](#): > > As I said a few posts ago, my frozen dinners were usually Stouffer’s, and were something like “french bread pizza” (I had that one A LOT) or lasagna or some other one-course thing. I occasionally but rarely got the aluminum tray with different courses in it kinds of dinners. Stouffer’s turkey dinners have the only mashed potatoes I find edible in frozen foods. Thanks for answering my questions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stove-top-stuffing-instead-of-potatoes-how-common-were-potatoes/605562.md?page=4)