"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> That's one potato I won't touch in any way, shape, or form. David
> likes them, but I won't even buy them. He has to do the buying
> himself. He likes to slice them (sometimes they come sliced), and
> fry them in butter with a litle oil, but they never turn out
> partcularly brown and definitely not crisp, and he wonders why. I've
> told him many times it's because they are totally waterlogged. :-)

I don't like them fried. Some years ago, we somehow got a cafeteria manager
who didn't know how to cook or much about food, really. She put cold pork
and beans on the salad bar. I was okay with that as I like cold pork and
beans but nobody else did.

One day, she got a large can of potatoes. She must have ordered them because
they'd never served that kind before. These were the whole ones. She deep
fried those suckers. They puffed up pretty big but the end result was
totally inedible. I don't know if she put some sort of coating on them or
what. And they weren't burned but just shy of it. Very dark brown. Now you
may be able to pan fry them but apparently deep frying gives them such a
tough exterior that they can't be cut into or bitten into.

Thankfully after about two weeks of her floundering, she was given a
different position in the store.