Jacket Potatoes @ Glastonbury

[fur_q]

53 minutes ago, Festival Liam said:

Actually 15 mins in the microwave just to heat it through, then 30 mins in the oven on quite high is an amazing compromise between speed but a lovely oiled crispy skin. 

I have a combination microwave/oven it has can cook baked potatoes with a perfectly crispy skin in 20 minutes at the touch of button, so do excuse me if I look a little smug.

 

but wtf would anyone east a jacket potato at Glastonbury with all the other food that's available. 

[RichardWaller]

I don't think I've ever had a jacket potato at Glastonbury. Will have to rectify that. Properly, obviously.

Edited May 29, 2016 by RichardWaller

[paddyclark]

I hope you all eat the skins... The best bit if cooked properly....

 

Also the best mashed potato is made by using jacket spuds.....

[CaledonianGonzo]

Confidence is a preference for the habitual user of.....Sporkife!

[HattersBoy]

5 minutes ago, paddyclark said:

I hope you all eat the skins... The best bit if cooked properly....

 

Also the best mashed potato is made by using jacket spuds.....

Jacket spuds, butter and mash into spud then cover with cheese, cheesy mash in a jacket. The only way!

[grumpyhack]

1 hour ago, Purple aki squat said:

This is usually the only warm food I eat all weekend, really good it is apart from trying to nail it down with a shitty fork whilst shitfaced

I always carry a small metal knife, fork and spoon around with me for such occasions.  I get really peeved off if a food stall just gives you a rubbish fork when what you also really need is a knife.

[paddyclark]

Just now, HattersBoy said:

Jacket spuds, butter and mash into spud then cover with cheese, cheesy mash in a jacket. The only way!

Plus a little freshly ground black pepper mmmmm

[HattersBoy]

3 minutes ago, paddyclark said:

Plus a little freshly ground black pepper mmmmm

Lol yh indeed

[paddyclark]

Plus when finishing the spuds in the oven skins need a nice oily massage and a sprinkle of sea salt

[paddyclark]

Sporking and melted cheese 

#philippasvan

[giantkatestacks]

I have had a jacket spud with cheese and salad from the crew tent but actually paying for one? Not going to happen. Not when there's gumbo on offer elsewhere. They always taste weirdly sweet when they're not homemade I think anyway.

[ravermum]

11 hours ago, morph100 said:

Cheese with more cheese to keep me going until I get to the cheese truck for a cheese toaster and then the green fields for a cheese board.

What is this cheese board in the green fields of which you speak?

[ravermum]

2 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

In the farmers market there's a stall that sells cheeseboards and ploughman's. Yummy yum yum. 

Oh yes - thank you @Scruffylovemonster

[paddyclark]

20 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

In the farmers market there's a stall that sells cheeseboards and ploughman's. Yummy yum yum. 

A must for me this year

[paddyclark]

Phil Collins would just have the beans and cheese

 

 

No Jacket required 

[balti-pie]

So many different culinary delights available on one site, and you people are eating jacket spuds? With baked bloody beans? That's shameful. It's disappointing enough for dinner after work, let alone in a field when you're ravenous after raving and walking everywhere. They're just so bloody bland. Cobblers. No chance will I have my palate sullied by such pointless disappointment! 

[Purple aki squat]

7 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Tartiflette, sausage and the lads are a doddle to eat while you're bogling to the groovy goodness outside the Brothers Bar.

Nah, it's a pain in the Arse.

Not like crispy fried mars bars,,lads

[bennyboi]

16 hours ago, Beerqueen said:

I think I'd rather have almost anything else to eat at Glastonbury than a jacket potato!  So boring and difficult to eat standing up holding it.

I was thinking the very same, "I'm peckish, I fancy one of those big burritos we saw earlier" "nah mate, jacket with beans & cheese"  

i don't even eat them at home because they are boring as hell. If I removed the jacket potato from my diet completely, regardless of filling, I wouldn't be bothered.  

[drchickenburger]

After reading through this I am well hungry.

[Spindles]

15 hours ago, grumpyhack said:

I always carry a small metal knife, fork and spoon around with me for such occasions.  I get really peeved off if a food stall just gives you a rubbish fork when what you also really need is a knife.

 

[Beerqueen]

9 hours ago, bennyboi said:

I was thinking the very same, "I'm peckish, I fancy one of those big burritos we saw earlier" "nah mate, jacket with beans & cheese"  

i don't even eat them at home because they are boring as hell. If I removed the jacket potato from my diet completely, regardless of filling, I wouldn't be bothered.  

I don't mind them occasionally.  Sometimes I'll have one from the lunch kiosk at work but only because there isn't that much choice - and they have ok fillings.  But beans and cheese?  Whichever way round you want to put it on, it's the most boring filling on a boring potato!  

There are curries (all sorts), jerk chicken, burritos, Mediterranean, Moroccan........ safe to say, I won't be buying a potato!

 

[The Nal]

3 hours ago, drchickenburger said:

After reading through this I am well hungry.

Its making me feel quite ill. Baked beans from a tin lobbed onto a spud and topped with cheese?! WTF?

[CaledonianGonzo]

*walks past the Rac Shack to the stall dispensing*

[Mollyanne&Mike]

12 hours ago, balti-pie said:

So many different culinary delights available on one site, and you people are eating jacket spuds? With baked bloody beans? That's shameful. It's disappointing enough for dinner after work, let alone in a field when you're ravenous after raving and walking everywhere. They're just so bloody bland. Cobblers. No chance will I have my palate sullied by such pointless disappointment! 

I'm not planning to eat a jacket potato at Glastonbury, nor have I in previous years - merely stating what toppings in which order.

i do agree, there is such a wide choice available, this would be last on my list (apart from large lumps of meat, like steak or burgers, which I cannot face).

[The Nal]

Its a vile combination. Whats next? Cornflakes topped with sardines and jelly?