Why mashed potatoes make you feel better!

Narwhal · June 2010

Starchy, carbohydrate filled foods increase the release of saratonin, which makes you happy. That's why they're good comfort food.

I read that today and instantly thought of desertsun.

MidniteRae · June 2010

What about me?

I made a post awhile back saying that mashed potatoes make everything better.

chipypony · June 2010

Thanks. Now I have a craving for mashed potatos.

Narwhal · June 2010

You too, you too!

I remember a lot of people were talking about it, desert just has the button.

MidniteRae · June 2010

I had mashed potatoes the other day. They were delicious.

Narwhal · June 2010

I think I'll have them for supper tonight.

Am I the only one who prefers instant mashed potatoes to the real ones?

Buggalo · June 2010

I love potatoes any style. But mashed are the best.

desertsun · June 2010

I do love me some mashed taters!

And, perhaps not surprisingly, I also have had problems with depression since I was a kid.

Got to a point where I had to choose between being obese, suicidal, or on meds.

I choose to stay on a relatively small dose of anti-depressants, combined with consistent exercise, and small, consistent carb doses in the form of fries, mac n cheese, and mashed potatoes made with fat free sour cream and skim milk.

Works for me!

MidniteRae · June 2010

It depends on how "real" ones are made. I don't like the real ones if they are too chunky. I guess I prefer whipped potatoes(with brown gravy of course!) Do you like the brown gravy or the turkey gravy better?

desertsun · June 2010

Oh, and INSTANT DOESN'T COUNT!

C'mon, Narwhal. Geez.

Gamette · June 2010

I had mashed potatoes last night for dinner, with chicken fried steak and garlic green beans. Yummy.

desertsun · June 2010

Midnite -- I'm a purist.

No gravy on mine!

Narwhal · June 2010

SHUT UP INSTANT IS DELICIOUS.

I don't like gravy either. *hides*

Gamette · June 2010

desertsun- I'm a purist too! No gravy. But I do like butter on them.

MidniteRae · June 2010

As long as both of you won't eat turkey gravy, that's fine. I'll eat them plain. But I do love them with brown gravy.

Narwhal · June 2010

I honestly have no idea what turkey gravy is.

MidniteRae · June 2010

It's a weird light color gravy. Most people eat it with turkey.

KD+BC · June 2010

I love mashed potatoes! I do not, however, like brown gravy. I do like turkey gravy, doesn't everyone eat it on Thanksgiving? My favorite way to eat them though is with some butter.

Mmmmmmmm.

Narwhal · June 2010

Hmm. We have a weird light colored gravy but we call it biscuit gravy. Idk if its the same thing.

KD+BC · June 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_mashed-potatoes-feel-better?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:82aa65b0-3dea-484c-ab5a-8b3dc71d3b41Post:0b2892ae-14b6-490a-84df-b512b49be583">Re: Why mashed potatoes make you feel better!</a>:
[QUOTE]Hmm. We have a weird light colored gravy but we call it biscuit gravy. Idk if its the same thing.
Posted by Narwhal[/QUOTE]

Is it made from turkey drippings?

MidniteRae · June 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_mashed-potatoes-feel-better?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:82aa65b0-3dea-484c-ab5a-8b3dc71d3b41Post:0b2892ae-14b6-490a-84df-b512b49be583">Re: Why mashed potatoes make you feel better!</a>:
[QUOTE]Hmm. We have a weird light colored gravy but we call it biscuit gravy. Idk if its the same thing.
Posted by Narwhal[/QUOTE]

Are you talking about the white sausage gravy that people use for biscuits and gravy? If so, that's not what I'm talking about.

MidniteRae · June 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_mashed-potatoes-feel-better?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:82aa65b0-3dea-484c-ab5a-8b3dc71d3b41Post:7b617636-190a-4e55-9205-9168d4549afe">Re: Why mashed potatoes make you feel better!</a>:
[QUOTE]I love mashed potatoes! I do not, however, like brown gravy. I do like turkey gravy, doesn't everyone eat it on Thanksgiving? My favorite way to eat them though is with some butter. Mmmmmmmm.
Posted by KD+BC[/QUOTE]

EW. I sure don't. I don't eat turkey on thanksgiving either.- Well, I don't eat turkey at all.

Narwhal · June 2010

I don't eat gravy anyway. So I don't know what any of it is made of.

chipypony · June 2010

I like my mashed potatos without chunks, and usually no gravy. However I like then with cheese and chives and garlic mixed in. YUM. BF makes the best mashed potatos.

I am also a potato purist when it comes to potato origin. I like Idaho potatos (that was deffinetly a deciding factor in moving to WA, potatos are so cheap here!!)

desertsun · June 2010

I'm a vegetarian.

I will allow mushroom gravy.

But I'm usually too lazy to make it.

Esp. since they're just as delish without!

hetshup · June 2010

FI (who isn't real, per my earlier post) makes them with red taters, chives, horseradish and sour cream. I like em lumpy. I also like my applesauce lumpy and my bacon floppy.

Oh by the way, I just had a tube of crescent rolls explode in my hand and now I have dough all over the kitchen.

chipypony · June 2010

I like floppy bacon, but something about chunky mashed potatos just doesn't work for me. But I do like the red potatos with the skin still in the mashed potatos.

Crescent rolls are also delicious

MidniteRae · June 2010

I like my bacon extra crispy.

That sucks about the cresent rolls.

Were you just going to make rolls, or were you going to make something else?

Buggalo · June 2010

OK, now I am VERY hungry.

When I was little, my mom used to put a pat of butter on top of my mashed potatoes. And I would eat the pat of butter separately before it melted, much to my brother's chagrin and disgust. I did this until I was about 8 or 9.

KD+BC · June 2010

I also love lumpy mashed taters and lumpy applesacuse (I make my own!). I don't like bacon ((((runs and hides)))).

hetshup · June 2010

KD I don't think we can be virtual friends anymore. Get another wedding date, you are kicked out of quadies!

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