Is it "creamed potatoes" or "mashed potatoes"?

[underpants]

I just went and bought lunch (Meat Loaf) for a co-worker and she had told me that as sides she wanted mixed vegetables (Yum!) and "Creamed potatoes". When I went to the restaurant it hit me-Did she mean "Mashed potatoes"?. She did, she got rice.

So which is it?

[redqueen]

1. Maybe she got it mixed up with corn?

I have never heard of creamed potatoes.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. We all need someone we can cream on....

And if you wanna, you can cream on my potatoes.

[SarahB]

22. Good lord.

I thought just about the same thing. I have hedge's sick mind trapped in the body of a disgruntled Connecticut housewife. Yikes! :scared:

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. I AM a disgruntled Connecticut housewife!

:o

[SarahB]

27. Welcome to Stepford!

We'll be having a potluck later. :D

[yardwork]

28. I have GOT to get those dresses

I want the one with the big red flowers on the skirt.

[calico1]

3. A new one I am hearing lately

is "smashed" potatoes. A couple of the cooks on Food Network call them that.

[johnnie]

4. We called them that as kids

But I think it's because we thought that's where what mashed potatoes were called.

[redqueen]

8. The kids in my family did, too.

This thread is making me hungry.

[cardlaw]

6. Smashed v. Mashed (Creamed)

Smashed potatoes still have a lot of texture to them. Mashed potatoes are worked until they are a smooth consistency.

[calico1]

18. Hmmm....I had never heard them called that.

Its actually what I prefer and what you most often get here in New England---mashed but with lumps left in them and definitely not whipped. So that is what "smashed" potatoes are? Learn something new everyday. I thought it was just a different name for mashed.

[MissMillie]

5. Pass the gravy, please (n/t)

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[skylarmae]

7. what about iced potatoes? (eom)

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Personally, I prefer "smashed" potatoes, skin and all.

:9 :9

[franmarz]

10. mashed potatoes or creamed potatoes

If you mash them with butter, they are of course mashed. If you mash them with butter and add cream or milk, then they are creamed.

[underpants]

11. I thought they were always made with milk and butter

:shrug:

[redqueen]

14. Who knew potatoes could be this conufsing?

All of a sudden I find out that all my life I've NEVER had mashed potatoes... only creamed...

[underpants]

15. Yes and last night was the first I had heard of BUDGETMAN!

[Lavender Brown]

12. Whatever you call them

they're still the best comfort food in the world. :9

[underpants]

13. I just finished up

Yuuuuuuum!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. You guys ever eaten Mashed Potatoes from TGIFriday's?

If not, you should. They have the BEST mashed potatoes i've ever had in my ENTIRE life.
Duckie

[Arkana]

17. Well, on Planet Earth

It's mashed potatoes. :)

[JVS]

19. Potatoes are mashed, jeans are .... oh never mind

[HEyHEY]

20. WHo's the twinkle toed communist mother fucker that said "Creamed"

Sorry, had a Full metal jacket moment

[skygazer]

21. I've heard "whipped"

But not "creamed". We used to call them "smashed" when I was a kid but that was just to be stupid.

Or you could combine the two and call them "crashed".

[Endangered Specie]

23. Creamed potatoes sounds wrong.

:evilgrin:

[tjwash]

25. My wife calls them "whipped potatoes"

nt

[Wapsie B]

26. Neither.

It's Whipped.

[marigold20]

29. Creamed potatoes would be diced potatoes in a nice white sauce.

The ultimate in bland food!

[ldf]

30. neither

it's mashed down taters, as i used to call them as a kid.

[artboy]

31. tators with

knots..is what my wife says....:)

we like to leave small pieces of whole "tators" in our mix..

butter
heavy cream
mayo (not miracle whip)
salt/pepper
and.....maybe..if we feel real frisky...some scallions!!

maybe some cheese sprinkles too


def...def.....defin......definately low fat!


yummy!

[H2O Man]

32. Creamed potatoes ....

as every Irish-American farm family in the north-east knows, are mashed potatoes with some cream, rather than milk, added. For many of our families, this was a big treat, especially in light of the Great Starvation back on the Old Sod.

[Kire]

33. they both make me want to vomit