Well I wasn't expecting to sit through a video about potatoes today (or any day) but I have & enjoyed every minute.

I feel sad for Americans not having roast potatoes, they're THE best way to eat potatoes, especially with a roast dinner.

Imagine living your life and never eating a roast potato. We should send care packages full of goose fat roasties to these poor colonial souls.

UK person in Canada here. I enjoyed this but was hoping for a mention of the difference between potato types and their different uses. In the UK we tend to know that there are floury potatoes (like Russets or King Edwards) or waxy, 'new' potatoes (like a Charlotte or Jersey Royal), and they're used for completely different things. Try to chip, bake or roast a Jersey Royal and it'll be weird and clammy because you need a floury spud for that, but a Russet will fall apart and ruin a curry or stew, because for that you need a waxy spud. Desirees, Maris Piper or Roosters are pretty versatile and can go either way. Canadian spuds are either Russets (for which you often pay a slight premium) or these awful, soggy, mealy, tasteless 'red' 'yellow' or 'white' potatoes, which are only good for mashing. In my first week in Canada I asked a potato seller at the farmer's market what his potatoes were best used for and he looked at me like I was crazy. 'Potatoes are potatoes' he said. 😮

I think the full British name is “baked potatoes in their jackets”. (That is what they were called when I was a kid, 70 years ago. 😄)

It might help to realise that the original expression was "potatoes baked IN their jackets" (i.e. in their skins), but "jacket potato" is obviously more convenient for menu blackboards.

Jacket just means it still has the skin on. We still also call them baked potatoes.

they were always called baked potatoes when I was growing up in England, I think they started being called jacket potatoes when they started being sold commercially

Ya missed 2 varients.

This was missing a section on potato based sandwiches in the UK: Chip butties; Ready salted crisps; cold mash; cold sliced roast potatoes; hot hash browns - there's a whole variety of ways we like our potatoes conveniently sandwiched!

My mother used to use left over mashed potato to make 'bubble and squeak', fried up cold mashed potato mixed with whatever left over vegetables we had. Great for breakfast with fried egg.

Hi, Kalyn, the one thing you didn't mention was the best type of potato for summer anywhere is the Jersey Royal. Loving the new videos.

You're good at this, Kalyn. You're observant and non judgemental, and with those qualities, everybody's going to love watching your videos... thanks for these little pearls

I don't remember there being many "skinny" or what we would call "French Fries" around in the UK until the fast food outlets like McDonald's and Wimpeys started popping up.

It's amazing that your viewer have so many diverse comments on the humble spud! I am rather ancient so I grew up during WW2 in Scotland, and during part of our summer holidays we were recruited to harvest potatoes in Perthshireaccommodation was in the the local school, and we did so much damage to the classroom in the evenings when we were unsupervised, that the cost of repairs were deducted from our wages, leaving us at the end of two weeks, going home unpaid, one of my enjoyable experiences in my youth 😂

I find it funny here in Canada (and I've seen this in the US, too) when I see "Fish & Chips" on a menu, and then the description says it comes with fries. It doesn't always put it that way, but it happens enough that I notice it and laugh a little.

I live for content like this. More potato chat please.

I live in America's heartland, and I call fries chips. I love confusing people with my English English.

Butter and salt aren't 'toppings', they're just seasoning! A jacket/baked potato with, say, prawns in MarieRose sauce, or cheesy beans, and a rainbow salad with a bit of coleslaw, makes a very substantial meal especially with a pudding (steamed or otherwise) to follow.

We call them Stuffed potatoes in the US. Usually with chiili, cheese, chives and sour creek. They can be stuffed with whatever the cook wants. We also have potato pan cakes.