They might be using it as a base for something else, like breakfast hash browns.
Canned potatoes take on a flavor I don’t like, but there’s no denying the convenience of having shelf-stable cooked potatoes ready to eat or cook with. I keep canned tomatoes in the pantry for a similar reason. I prefer fresh, but if it’s going into sauce or stew, canned is a time saver.
I have a very elderly relative. If you can only eat food that is not too firm, and you want easy-to-prepare stuff that you can keep on the shelf, and your tastes are kind of old fashioned, this sounds great.
I could definitely see something like that, although I think you’d probably get something that tasted better with a blended potato soup and there’s a bunch of canned varieties. I suppose if someone like that is jonesing for some potato salad (I wouldn’t blame them, potato salad is great), this is the best way to give it to them.
I can easily see how something like canned potato salad could be convenient to someone who doesn’t want to spend time cooking and/or doesn’t plan their meals much. Some people buy fresh produce or foods that will last just a couple of weeks in the fridge, they don’t eat it, they throw it away. If you are like this, and only eat potato a couple times a year then you can just stock up on a few cans and not deal with the fresh option which needs planning. You can freeze fresh salad you say? Yes, but sometimes you don’t want to deal with the thawing.
In short this serves the same purpose as canned beans or any other canned meal.
I think that’s the game for you. My friends and I like to hang out, search for treasure, solve puzzles, and work together to bring down ghost ships. We don’t have any interest in sinking a real players ship, or running from a group of teenagers shouting slurs at us while they try to sink ours.
I think last season they introduced “safer seas” where you can experience the game without others players interrupting your crews fun. Might be worth to check out
If you don’t want to play on the PvE-only servers, you can always go to the lower east corner of the map, with all the volcano islands. I almost never encounter people around there.
Or you could play late night-early morning, when less people are awake in your region.
A couple friends and I would get together for drinks, we all love to cook, one topic that frequently came up was ‘stuff you hated as a kid’. Then we would meet the next week and present a good version of that dish. German potato salad was the only thing no one could make edible, it just sucks as a dish.
so, good news, we have enough canned potato salad for the next year. Um, I’m going to check to radiation levels outside. Don’t you want a Geiger counter? Naw, I’m good
First of all … ew. I don’t know who this is for honestly. Maybe it’s one of those things that was used during war times that’s now sold in stores because why not? Second, we have lots of Krogers in the US and they are currently trying to merge with Albertsons which would essentially create a monopoly on grocery stores. Let’s all hope that doesn’t go through.
I’ve actually tried this brand before and it’s not bad! It’s a much different type of potato salad than the fresh kind they sell in the deli aisle. I don’t think they’re meant to be direct competition for each other
You mean it doesn’t taste like German potato salad? Because then it’s not as advertised.
Also, if the potatoes are still firm in that can and not near-blended potato soup mush, they are using some weird-ass chemicals you probably don’t want in your body.
Where I live the stuff in the deli aisle is all mayo based potato salad regardless of what type it’s supposed to be. The stuff I had from the can has no mayo and is vinegar based and the potatoes are more firm. I have no idea which one would be considered more “authentic” as far as what “German potato salad” is supposed to be.
As far as chemicals that may be in the canned stuff, I honestly didn’t check and I don’t eat potato salad often enough for it to be a real concern to me personally.
If it seems that reprehensible to you then maybe just don’t buy it? The fact that the store here keeps restocking it means someone must think it’s good enough to keep buying it lol
The fact that the store here keeps restocking it means someone must think it’s good enough to keep buying it lol
I agree. I just don’t know who that someone is when they can buy it fresh in the deli in the same store. But then some people obviously prefer Treet to Spam.
I guess people who don’t like mayo? Or maybe people who grew up eating that style of potato salad? Maybe just doomsday preppers who want to stock up their shelters?
I live in the deep south and the deli aisles here sell like 3 or 4 different styles of fresh potato salad but all of them are like 50% mayo and sometimes I just want something different lol
My grandma always makes both kinds for family gatherings (the mayo kind and the vinegar kind, vinegar being what she calls German potato salad). The way she makes it, the “sauce” part that coats the potatoes is bacon fat, vinegar and a little sugar.
Is the bacon fat and vinegar blended/emulsified? Is it served warm or cold? The flavors sound great, but I can’t picture how that’s not a messy puddle of grease and vinegar.
Mayo vs vinegar is kind of an actual debate in germany. The civilised side and the vinegar people are mostly blissfully unaware of each other until they develop righteous hatred for the other salad as soon as they learn of it. I heard the vinegar version is eaten warm, which sounds even worse. I would say both are authentic, but vinegar potato salad is authentically horrible.
Storebought potato salad will also at best get people talking behind your back in germany, no matter which kind.
I’ve lived in both regions and both versions are strictly inferior to a potatoe salad based on mustard (+ oil and broth). The vinegar version uses a bit of mustard, but I’m speaking of mustard being the main ingredient. Naturally, I’m hated by both sides.
This sounds so much like Spanish potato omelette. There’s the civilised side and the side that add onions to the omelette. And you don’t want to bring the topic to any peaceful conversation.
Because you use broth, fresh beef broth (or a hearty vegetable one) and vinegar just as a spice. The South is looking very critical at the rest of Germany with their weird abominations they call potato salad ರ_ರ
Being canned it doesn’t require any “weird chemicals”. Op should learn basic chemistry-canning is a preservation process that requires no “weird chemicals”, unless salt is considered a “weird chemical”.
You assume there’s lots of chemicals, but did you check? The process of canning food doesn’t necessarily require a lot of chemicals: a lot of canned food is cooked in the can, after it’s sealed, which kills most of the microbes that might spoil the food and make you sick. And because it’s sealed, no microbes can get in, either.
lemmy.world
Newest