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TNG s2e18 “Up the Long Ladder”
An impressively awful episode, even for season 2.
Yeah, I’ve yet to revisit it on my current scattered run through. Currently struggling my way through s6e13 “Aquiel” where Geordi fawns over a woman’s personal logs.
Well it’s better than the episode where Riker is injected with Clip Show poison and the doctor figures out that the cure is MORE CLIPS.
And don’t forget the very special episode where space Africans board the enterprise to steal a white woman.
Well, they could be, but aren’t.
There’s no reason that mashed taters can’t be used the same way guacamole is. You could use it as a dip, a topping/condiment, or a main focus of a simple dish.
However, you can’t mash potatoes without cooking them, which is a very important difference. They also aren’t used in the ways guacamole is. Nor, imo, would they serve the same role as well.
Not to mention potatoes are tubers and avocados are a fruit. They have no ingredients in common, and the preparation of each only bears a vague similarity to one another (mashing the main ingredient and literally nothing else). If you’re putting butter and milk in your guac or onions, tomatoes, cilantro, lime juice, jalapeno and cumin in your mashed potatoes I will call the cops
I mean I agree with you mostly but tbh adding some finely minced onions and jalapeños to mashed potatoes sounds like it might actually be bangin.
It happens all the time in southwestern cuisine. Cubed potatoes are pretty common in breakfast burritos and of course I’d put salsa on that.
Yeah you’re right, that does sound pretty good
Okay, I trust that you’ll all respect that I’m entering a Judgment Free Zone.
There was a period in my life where I would buy grocery store potato salad and use it as a dip for Cool Ranch Doritos, and it was actually pretty good!
I don’t do that anymore, but all I can say is that it’s possible. Thank you for respecting my experiences.
Man, I’m in the camp of whatever brings you even a sliver of happiness that doesn’t hurt someone else is all good. And food snobbery is dumber than dammit to begin with.
On another level, it really isn’t any different than adding in some ranch flavoring into the potato salad and then mixing in something crunchy. Most store bought potato salad is very low crunch, and there’s only so many ways to get it in there.
I wanna know what’s in the “green devil”
But potatoes originated in South America.
But mashed potatoes did not.
And there is nothing more American than a jalapeño. Because chilies originated here also. Think of all those cultures known for piquant cuisine: India, Thailand, Vietnam, southern China – none of them had that element before 1492.
To your stomach, all potatoes are mashed potatoes. - Mitch Hedberg
One flaw in this theory is that guacamole is a condiment vs a side dish.
Anything’s a side dish if you’re hungry enough.
and anythings a condiment if you’re stoned enough
Actually the research has already been carried out and the results look good
That makes sense to me. I bet it would be a lot like guac if you added oil and more seasonings. It’s not like an avocado really tastes like much of anything by itself.
Or is Guacamole just Mexican mashed potatoes?
Wouldn’t it be Peruvian?
Idk about anyone else but I think mashed potatoes with cilantro, lime, tomato, and onion would be disgusting.
That’s basically what you get in a breakfast burrito or huevos rancheros. Potatoes are pretty neutral so if it matches the rest of the meal, not bad at all. I put hot sauce and salsa on basically everything so it would be fine with me.
Yeah like that list might not be the first things I think of incorporating into mashed potatoes, but also don’t think it would be offensive or anything.
Come to think of it, I’ve seen picante sauce in baked potato fixin’ bars.
What’s good and what people think is normal for certain foods is in a large part cultural context and habit. If people weren’t used to it, I doubt if someone saying “you know, what these fried potatoes need is a lacto-fermented tomato sauce with onion, garlic, spices and vinegar” would sound appetizing.
There are some good things you can do with potatoes and avocado
for example, you can eat them.
*drools in Latvian*
