Hosting Thanksgiving for mostly seniors, very traditional
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Anonymous
Because they’re being ridiculously defensive. Clearly, these people are from the Midwest. They assume that you’re from DC and that you must therefore be a ‘librul’ who is mocking them for being tasteless rubes. Which you are not doing, of course. In fact, you’ve been remarkably polite under the circumstances, OP. |
OK, you’ve never shopped at Whole Foods or Wegmans? Because even the fancy grocery stores worthy of you have mashed potatoes in their deli/hot food section, freshly made every day. You might have gotten away with never seen Bob Evans (food for peasants) at Giant or Safeway, but even the most expensive grocery stores that carry the highest-end items have mashed potatoes ready to carry out.
Anonymous
I don’t know what Wegman is but I assumed it’s something like Balducci’s where a pineapple costs like $15 or something. |
Anonymous
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Your Kroger will carry Bob Evans mashed potatoes. They’ll be in a refrigerated case with other prepared heat-and-eat foods, like macaroni and cheese. I’m sure your store carries them year round and you just haven’t shopped that section. In my grocery store, this refrigerated case is not too far from the meat. Just make sure you’re getting the original mashed potatoes. Old Bob has a few tricks up his sleeve and now has mashed potatoes with sour cream and chives and garlic mashed potatoes. There might even be a cheesy one.
Making real mashed potatoes is pretty easy though, with the ricer. Add butter and sour cream, a little milk or half & half if you need to thin them, and salt. You could probably add a tiny bit of pepper without adding a kick, even for those who keep their food bland. You can’t get blander than skinless boiled potatoes. The trick is to remember that potatoes need to be salted more generously than other vegetables. |
Anonymous
| I think its sad you want to serve the older people crappy premade grocery store food and go all out for the other half the dinner guests. Why not just do something like a mashed potato bar so the food snobs can doctor their potatoes up however they want and the others can enjoy them plain? And every vegetable dish doesn't need to be drenched with garlic, serve things 2 ways in some cases just divide up before preparing more elaborately. |
Anonymous
| You’d probably be safe with a couple boxes of plain old stovetop stuffing. |
Anonymous
This is a forum for DC area folks. WTF!!! |
Anonymous
…and? That doesn’t make it correct. A lot of people also say “irregardless” and “a whole nother.” |
Anonymous
There is a zero percent chance someone who shops at Kroger doesn’t actually know that pre-made mashed potatoes exist and where to find them. OP isn’t actually asking for practical help. She just wants to complain about her backwater ILs and how awful they are. |
Anonymous
You said earlier you are in the MidWest so I presume you shop at Food City or Baker's or Albertsons or the like. They ALL have pre-made mashed potatoes like Bob Evans. It will be in the refrigerated food section, usually where you find other premade foods. |
Anonymous
I agree with this. |
Anonymous
They are out year round in my grocery stores. You find them in the refrigerated section, near where they sell things like biscuits in a can and ready made cookie dough, usually. |
Anonymous
| At our Safeway the mashed potatoes are next to the bacon in the section with prepared foods but not the deli area with store prepared foods.. If you don’t buy refrigerated prepared foods like the Perdue chicken nuggets or the vacuum packed pulled pork then you wouldn’t have seen them. My kids used to like the country crock ones. Not sure if they still make these as we don’t shop in that section now that they’ve aged out of the nuggets, |
Anonymous
It’s a food forum. To talk about food. Do calm down. |
Anonymous
Is 55 considered elderly? I thought I had a few more years before being called that. Guess not. |
Anonymous
You are being obtuse. OP should not be surprised that on a site called DC Urban Moms and Dads people in ANY FORUM might assume she lived and shopped in the DC area. |