What do you eat on your baked potato?

In My Humble Opinion
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I spent yesterday at a cookout with my family so naturally I woke up with a hangover. In order to cure said hangover, I needed something very fattening like chili-cheese fries with sour cream or a bacon cheeseburger. However, lack of these deliciously heart-clogging delicacies led me to eat a baked potato.

Yum…a baked potato with sour cream, butter and scallions did the trick nicely. As I savored every tasty morsel, I began to think of all the toppings I like on a baked potato. Hmmm, A-1 and sour cream, salmon and creamed spinach, my grandma’s dried beef gravy, sauteed mushrooms and onions, bacon, broccoli, cheese, ets., etc…

So, what do you like on a baked potato? Carrots, chicken salad, jello or maybe even spam…anything goes.
(Looking at my above list, it is no wonder that none of my shorts fit.)

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I like to scoop out the insides, to eat as mashed potatoes, with butter and salt. Then, I drizzle the skins with olive oil, salt and paprika, and put back in the oven to crisp up. Oh man, baked potato skins. I think I need some right now…

3

Oh man, I totally forgot about baked potato SKINS. I am just going to have to accept being fat and buy some new pants. MMMM, potato skins.

4

The missus just made some twice-baked the other night for the first time ( as I went out my way to make certain we got bacon ) and yowza, were they good.

Generally, salt and pepper with gobs of butter and sour cream do it for me - other things you mentioned would be fine but we have it around.

5

Baked potatoes are basically delivery-systems for toppings. I like, in no particular order or combination: salt, pepper, butter, sour cream, cheese sauce, bacon bits, salsa, broccoli, BBQ sauce, chili, onions, scallions, and mushrooms.

6

Potaoes are very healthy things to eat, and not that fattening. It’s all the junk we put on them that is bad for us!

**Sattua ** has the right idea for potato skins. Those sound delicious and healthy to boot! :smiley:

7

Lawry’s seasoned salt, butter, sour cream, and grated cheese (prefer a mix of mozarella and cheddar).

mmmm…potatoes…

8

A touch of Green Goddess salad dressing…and I adore potato skins. I also like fries, chips and baked sweet potatoes.

9

When it comes to food I’m a simple man. So on my BP I like cheese and butter. Nothing else.

10

More butter than potato for me, thanks.

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Butter, sour cream, chives, bacon, cheese, salsa, mushrooms…mmmm… so much stuff is good on baked potatoes. OOOOH! Gravy! ::Drool::

12

This might sound weird but I had it at a restaurant and it was fantastic…

Italian sausage, green pepper, onion, and tomato sauce piled on top of a well buttered baked potato - it was heaven!

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You can’t beat butter. Scoop out the potato, then put butter inside the skins and eat. Heaven!*

Sour cream isn’t bad, and I’ve had them with cheddar cheese and broccoli on occasion, but you can’t beat the classic.

*Provided, of course, it’s a baked potato. Those things in aluminum foil are steamed potatoes and are a dismal substitute for the real thing – cooked naked on an over rack for about an hour at 375 so the skins are nice and crunchy.

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Sometimes lots of butter, sometimes bar b que sauce.

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I’m a purist: butter and salt - and sour cream for special occasions.

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Butter, then tinned baked beans with sausages, then lots of grated cheddar cheese, then a little Branston pickle. Works for me.

17

Butter, sour cream, and lemon pepper seasoning.

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Butter, pepper, and, if necessary, salt. :slight_smile:

I seem to remember also having “cheesy baked potatoes” when I was a kid, where the potato centre was extracted, mixed with some kind of chees-like substace (possibly Cheez Whiz), and replaced. Haven’t thought of it for years.

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Except for those of us on low-carb diets. I can eat gobs of all the stuff you guys put on your potato . . . except the potato.

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Lots of sour cream. Margarine is ok, but I can live without it.

Chives are a nice bonus.

Salt, only if necessary.

No pepper.