You know what's really good?

I could take or leave sweet potato fries, but homemade strawberry rhubarb pie is delicious

grafmiata wrote:

Duke wrote: Sweet potatoes are awful in any form. And rhubarb. No reason to exist whatsoever.

+1... The plant-world equivalent to the duckbill platypus. To me, the whole concept of a "sweet potato" makes as much sense as meatless bacon.

Ehhh... at least sweat potatoes taste like SOMETHING.

I find normal potatoes pretty much useless. A vehicle for spices, cheese, and bacon. I'd rather just eat a pile of spice, cheese, and bacon, and not deal with a huge pile of starch that doesn't taste like anything.

Sweet potatoes with ADDED sugar and E36 M3 is gross, though. Sweet potato fries rule.

Sweet potato fries are nasty. I hate them. Bleyach.

The only way to eat sweet potatoes is mashed, with pecans, butter, and brown sugar. Marshmellow optional.

nepa03focus wrote: Homemade strawberry rhubarb pie is delicious **when they skip the rhubarb crap** .

Rhubarb is like nutritionally-bankrupt tofu. Tofu is at least a meat-protein replacement, even if it does need to be made to taste like something other than drywall compound. But for all you get out of rhubarb, you might as well eat celery, which at least isn't poisonous in raw form and doesn't ruin the flavor of otherwise-acceptable dishes.

You folks clearly have not had a good rhubarb pie.

mtn wrote: You folks clearly have not had a good rhubarb pie.

They don't make a good rhubarb pie.

I'd rather eat soybeans straight from the fields than sweet potato fries or rhubarb.......

Probably better for you too.

I'm all about "Jerk Spiced Okra Fries"

http://penandfork.com/recipes/jerk-spiced-okra-fries/

I stopped at a Dairy Queen in East Bumberkeleyville, Texas.

They had "Jalitos." Which are apparently jalepeno fries. There were berkeleying delicious.

yamaha wrote: I'd rather eat soybeans straight from the fields than sweet potato fries or rhubarb....... Probably better for you too.

Since you're a dude(I'm assuming), no, soybeans are not good for you. Full of estrogen.

Gasoline wrote: I'm all about "Jerk Spiced Okra Fries" http://penandfork.com/recipes/jerk-spiced-okra-fries/

Ohhhhh that looks interesting.

We just had grilled okra and pork chops last night!

yamaha wrote: I'd rather eat soybeans straight from the fields than sweet potato fries or rhubarb....... Probably better for you too.

Nope!

http://simplehomemade.net/the-risks-of-eating-soy-foods-3-reasons-to-say-no/

I think I'd like sweet potato fries better if they weren't so mushy. But that may be just the ones I had (Trader Joe's)

mtn wrote: Sweet potato fries are nasty. I hate them. Bleyach. The only way to eat sweet potatoes is mashed, with pecans, butter, and brown sugar. Marshmellow optional.

Now thats a perfect example of why I was 50 before I could stand sweet potatoes. Marshmallows and brown sugar? Really? You could not possibly be more wrong.

I'd like some potatos with a side of diabeetus.

slowride wrote: I think I'd like sweet potato fries better if they weren't so mushy. But that may be just the ones I had (Trader Joe's)

If you fry them right they aren't mushy.

And seriously on the sugar part, Part of the reason it took me this long to discover I liked sweet potatoes was because all I'd ever seen was nasty soupy piles of sweet taters covered in sugar and marshmallow and E36 M3. berkeley that.

1988RedT2 wrote:

Duke wrote: Sweet potatoes are awful in any form. And rhubarb. No reason to exist whatsoever.

You sir, are absolutely wrong! Sweet potatoes are fantastic! And rhubarb pie is a gift from the gods!

what he said

Swank Force One wrote: I'd like some potatos with a side of diabeetus.

that would be WHITE potatoes ... my Dr says all the sweet potatoes I want (well within reason of course)

sweet potatoes aren't considered to be a carbohydrate

Sweet potato pie - AWESOME!

Sweet potato fries = great ONLY if they are thick enough not to be crunchy. Softer is way better.

Rhubarb is a good modifier. Rhubarb/whatever pie is less sharp & bitter than whatever the carrier fruit is.

In reply to Gasoline:

okra is the bomb for real.

I hope this does not tatter my Man Card, but I enjoy Okra's flowers. It's fulfilling to have a garden of them.

Streetwiseguy wrote:

mtn wrote: Sweet potato fries are nasty. I hate them. Bleyach. The only way to eat sweet potatoes is mashed, with pecans, butter, and brown sugar. Marshmellow optional.

Now thats a perfect example of why I was 50 before I could stand sweet potatoes. Marshmallows and brown sugar? Really? You could not possibly be more wrong.

Yes, really. Tastes awesome, one time a year. I personally don't care for the marshmallow part of it, but some really like it.

Swank Force One wrote: Ehhh... at least sweat potatoes taste like SOMETHING. I find normal potatoes pretty much useless. A vehicle for spices, cheese, and bacon. I'd rather just eat a pile of spice, cheese, and bacon, and not deal with a huge pile of starch that doesn't taste like anything.

I've never eaten dairy, so the only way I know a normal potato is plain, or with gravy. I also have very sensitive, or strong tastebuds, so a plain potato, to me has a lot of flavour. A little pepper and that's a good side right there. Personally, I think it's retarded what people do to a perfectly good baked potato.

And what is this sweat potato of which you speak? Sounds kind of gross.

I really don't care what it is. Fry it, sautee it in butter, whatever. 99% of the time I'll turn it into E36 M3.

The first post in this thread reminded me of Mitch Hedberg's line:

My friend said to me, "You know what I like? Mashed potatoes." I was like, "Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause."