potatoes thats where im a viking

I may as well confess it here but I have no idea what 'That's where I'm a Viking' means or refers to.

The reddit thing is I assume about the guy pretending to his in-laws that he didn't know what a potato is? If so, voting 'not funny", sorry.

Xp Simpsons reference, youtube will give full context I expect

c'mon, it's a gershwin reference

better off tom

it's funny because someone posted it in the excelsior thread which mean's it's funny

If it's a gershwin reference then please explain how it's a gershwin reference, do we always have to play this stupid game?

no idea what the Gershwin reference is but am suitably ashamed to know what the reddit reference is. altho I probably read about that on ilx anyway

I think it's a reference to the song "let's call the whole thing off"

George Gershwin song “let’s call the whole thing off”

You know the one about the couple with the whole potato thing

IIRC American in Paris is about a lovers' spat triggered by a potato mishap.

OK, so 'not funny' by a landslide then?

It started as a casual lol but deems got FP'd really quickly

Not funny because you have to have read through some ILX thread about something called Gawker, a thread that has a tad too many messages (5659 of them) to quickly scroll through.

I thought the absurd potato exchange had m/l become a common reference point around these parts but it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong about something (nb, it would actually be like the third or forth time).

not funny because it's a reddit post reference

Now I don't know what m/l means.

Not funny, but I'm excited about ILX 3.0 in which every excelsior gets it's own funny/not funny poll.

Tom has never heard of anything

not that this is a dig at Bananaman, god knows i make dozens of unfunny comments a week. it's the harsh glare of the EXCELSIOR spotlight that turns a faintly amusing call-back into a wtf thread like this

can i vote in this

heres a funny line

i hope all of you die roaring

ilxor: it’s raining
Tom D: Never heard of it. Probably from that America

the Tuomas we deserve

I don't know too many American Things, true, this is probably the wrong place for me.

funny bcz lol at everyone itt

TIFU by starting an Excelsior thread.

howslifetifu

Bananaman Begins' joke was fairly average, but his username is still the funniest on ILX

it'a clearly an allusion to the reddit potato thing, with the purpose of pointing out that this is also bullshit. it is a solid ilx post the likes of which the site subsists on and falls into the broad category of "funny" even if i'm not roflmao. as is so often the case, the spotlight of the excelsior thread did it a disservice, and it certainly didn't warrant this thread on top of that. i think everyone involved should apologize to bananaman

Bananaman = A British Thing

ugh classic tom d, british when it's good, scottish when it's tripe

You say po-tay-to, I like bukkake

Joke is basically: two different boneheads exposing their boneheadedness by boneheadedly trying to point out the boneheadedness of people who are clearly far less boneheaded than them are, in fact, the same bonehead. It ain't high art but it'll do, pig.

the fuck you calling a bonehead

no aspersions cast on the BB pun that caused all this btw

It ain't high art but it'll do, pig

My favorite Zappa song

do I really have to go on reddit to find out what the potato thing is

Better to live a day as a bonehead than a lifetime as a tony mccarroll

Have to read Christopher Durang

katherine:

TIFU by enraging the parents of my girlfriend by pretending not to know what a potato is.
submitted 3 years ago by NotKnowPotatox4

Let me tell you that I have made a bad mistake this evening.

My girlfriend (who let me tell you is only my 2nd girlfriend of all time) said I am "invited to dinner" with her and her parents. I was very aghast, nervous, and bashful to be invited to such a situation. But I knew it must be done.

I met them nicely, I should tell you, and it started off in a good way. The idea slapped my mind that I should do a comic bit, to make a good impression and become known to them as a person who is amusing.

When I saw that baked potatoes were served I got the idea that it would be very good if I pretended I did not know what potatoes was. That would be funny.

Well let me tell you: backfired on my face. I'll tell you how.

So first when the potato became on my plate, I acted very interesting. I showed an expression on my face so as to seem that I was confused, astounded but in a restrained way, curious, and interested. They did notice, and seemed confused, but did not remark. So I asked "This looks very interesting. What is this?"

They stared at me and the mother said "It's a baked potato." And I was saying "Oh, interesting, a baked....what is it again?"

And she was like "A potato."

And I was like "A 'potato', oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good."

And then they didn't see I was clowning, but thought I really did not know what is a potato. So I knew I would be very shamed, humiliated, depressed, and disgusted if I admitted to making a bad joke, so what I did was to act as if it was not a joke but I committed to the act of pretending I didn't know what a potato is.

They asked me, VERY incredulous, did I really not know what a potato is? That I never heard of a potato. I went with it and told them, yes, I did not ever even hear of a potato. Not only had I never eaten a potato I had never heard the word potato.

This went on for a bit and my girlfriend was acting very confused and embarrassed by my "fucked up antics", and then the more insistent I was about not knowing what a potato is was when them parents starting thinking I DID know what a potato was.

Well let me tell you I had to commit 100% at this point. When I would not admit to knowing what a potato was, the father especially began to get annoyed. At one point he said something like "Enough is enough. You're fucking with us. Admit it." And I said "Sir, before today I never heard of a potato. I still don't know what a potato is, other than some kind of food. I don't know what to tell you."

Well let me tell you he got very annoyed. I decided to take a bite of the potato, and when I did I made a high pitched noise and said "Taste's very strange!"

That is when the father started yelling at me, and the mother kept saying "What are you doing?" and my girlfriend went to some other room.

Finally the father said I should "Get the fuck out of his house" and I said it was irrational to treat me like this just because I never heard of a potato before. Well let me tell you he didn't take that kindly.

Now in text messages I have been telling my girlfriend I really don't know what a potato is. The only way I can ever get out of this is for them to buy that I don't know what a potato is.

I wish I never started it but I can't go back. I think she will break up with me anyway.

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Before I opened this thread to find out what it was about I already had googled my favourite potato recipe

Here it is:

https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/spicy-and-sour-potato/

It's really good if you totally omit the spicy red peppers, but leave in the sichuan peppercorns, for a flavour that I've been told is more authentically Szechuan-- numbing, but not spicy; 麻, but not 辣

I need hardly point out that I don't know what TIFU means.

numbing and spicy is a common combo in szechuan food (says i the szechuan expert because i read that one fuchsia dunlop book)

TUOFU

today I fouled up xxp

What the foul?

https://i.redditmedia.com/Xx5FXBzmD3DRXV7j1M7k1wdz_Rd6zzZdzvyccKzMDII.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&arh=2&w=960&s=ca1948328a8261f4fcaf5fc613e29592

xxp: it's the name of a popular subreddit, Today I Fucked Up, in which people describe in detail mistakes they made that day.

I've got to stay in more.

recipe looks excellent, this place needs more recipe threads and less hilarity, lest I piss my pants ... again!

numbing and spicy is a common combo in szechuan food (says i the szechuan expert because i read that one fuchsia dunlop book)

I was told, when in Beijing, at a Szechuan restaurant, by my host, that numbing+spicy is a common characteristic of both Hunan and Sichuan cuisine, that the "mala" (numbing+spicy) combo is idiomatic, in both regions. He said that the "guaiwei" method of spicing was as common as "mala" in Szechuan-- numbing without the spice-- and I've subsequently really been into omitting hot chilis from typically "mala" recipes, but retaining the other spices (incl. sichuan peppercorns). I made a really weird chili crisp using all the typical ingredients, but no arborio peppers (the most important ingredient, for the "la") and made a couple rounds of really interesting and delicious mapo tofu with it. (I'm trying to lay off spicy food as I approach age 40)

http://www.jokes4us.com/miscellaneousjokes/foodjokes/potatojokes.html

xp. interesting

isn't that potato joke just from an andy samberg netflix show

I would double down on my perception of the original joke's hilarity if I didn't fear the likelihood of becoming persona au gratin around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJAEaAom5FQ

i’m just honoured that i got to play a part in the post which kicked off this accursed thread

Before I opened this thread to find out what it was about I already had googled my favourite potato recipe

Here it is:

https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/spicy-and-sour-potato/

It's really good if you totally omit the spicy red peppers, but leave in the sichuan peppercorns, for a flavour that I've been told is more authentically Szechuan-- numbing, but not spicy; 麻, but not 辣

― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, August 1, 2018 7:05 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the main way I eat potato now, due to Chinese family (from Hubei, so spicy but not mouth-numbing) (really wish there were a better way to say it in English, mouth-numbing does not work). I like it a lot but it's often a lot less cooked than I was previously used to, I thought raw potatoes were poisonous for some reason. Anyway, it's really good, but not quite as good as some really good mash imo.

xp not an accursed thread, I would like further input on different ways to cook the humble yet versatile starchy, tuberous root of the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

Yeah, let's hash this out.

can we talk about blood sausages

I thought raw potatoes were poisonous for some reason.

They are in the nightshade family, which has some poisonous members. To quote Wikipedia:

Many members of the family contain potent alkaloids, and some are highly toxic, but many, including tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, bell/chili peppers, and tobacco are widely used.

I'd like to try these for a start - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_rellena

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Peru_PapasRellenas2.jpg/250px-Peru_PapasRellenas2.jpg

xxp thank you, this is god's work

team redditor because this is basically masterclass-level zizek gaming

https://www.thehairpin.com/2016/07/the-best-time-i-pretended-i-hadnt-heard-of-slavoj-zizek/

Redditors to you tubers is a pretty accursed trajectory

but the redditor didn't know about tubers!

Would eat an all-nightshade family sandwich

Potato, tobacco and ghost pepper sub?

why not

Make the bun out of eggplant somehow

tobacco leaf

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I thought this was going to be a niche thread about the Simpsons episode where Lisa's class has to dress as states and Ralph has a bit of paper stuck to his front that says Idaho.

It is

Did I die at some point in the last 24 hours because not a lot is making sense r/n tbh :/

I would excelsior Silby but it relies too much on context. OR DOES IT?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

youse fuckin swine

well at least now the grating humour-fail has been sadly acknowledged - get back to the fucking serious business of how kitchen dilettantes should grate up a tato!

^ man dolin out the real talk

I made a potato, spring onion and green bean soup earlier today. I put too much potato in tbh, but it was still "not bad" was it's mediocre epitaph.

Q: who actually says "po-tah-to"

what is ur tah sound

ta or tay

Boil em
Mash em
Put em in a steeew

Use em as condoms

My comedy is all about making ppl think

The reddit post was a gershwin joke?

Voted reddit, but other perspectives are valid, death of the author and all that

i admire yr v dignified bearing throughout this ordeal fwiw

Gratin humour fail

^^^^
should have been the thread title!

I should add I'm not having a pop at PalaceMan42 here, the thread isn't his doing.

classic or spud

Maybe it was a Jonathan Swift ref

Redditors to you tubers is a pretty accursed trajectory

― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 19:08 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

but the redditor didn't know about tubers!

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 19:09 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

how did we miss this at the time, quality pun

Has a pun really been missed when it’s referred to in the very next post

great revive

good thread, tom d being confused at everything throughout is a rich seam