Real or Boxed

Mashed Potatoes - It's impossible to find a nice looking picture of mashed potatoes. Try as you might, they all always end up looking trashy. This is the classiest picture of mashed potatoes that I could find.
United States
April 20, 2007 11:46am CST
Do you make your mashed potatoes out of real potatoes or do you just make them out of the box? I hate the ones out of the box, but I'm too lazy to make my own.
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7 responses
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
3 Apr 08
I hate the box mashed potatoes as they always taste like cardboard instead of real potatoes.its so easy to make real mashed potatoes and only takes minutes to do and it tastes so much better you would not believe it.
@littleone3 (2063)
24 Feb 08
Have to make mashed potatoes out of real potatoes cannot stand the taste of it out of the box i think that it tatses artificial. There is nothing like the real thing.
• United States
3 Jan 08
I like real potatoes, or the fresh ones. I have made instant when I am in a pinch but they are just not the same.
@hezoid (2144)
5 May 07
I would only ever make them from real potatoes! We always have a big sack of spuds in to make chips, boiled/new/baked/roast potatoes out of becuase it's cheaper and i think better for you.
• Canada
4 May 07
Hi gwumpysmurf. I ALWAYS make my mashed potatos the old fashioned way with real potatos. I would NEVER eat the ones out of the box! EW EW EW! To me that just sounds wrong. I'll admit it is time cosuming, but SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO worth it!
• United States
5 Jan 08
I love real mashed potatoes but if all there is is boxed kind then I will make them up but I much prefer real kind.
@KissThis (3003)
• United States
29 Apr 07
I can't stand the kind that come out of the box. To cut some of the time it takes to make fresh mashed potaotes I will normally peal a bunch of potatoes at one time. Put them in a large bowl of water with a lid on them to store in the refrigerator. As long as the potatoes are covered in water they can last for several days in the refrigerator. Depending on how we want the potaotes cooked I take out just what we need for dinner that night.