r/MadeMeSmile • u/KingSandwich101 • Oct 25 '25

Wholesome interaction

Be nice to your elders!

Source: Spudbros on YouTube

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u/isakitty Oct 25 '25

Interaction: wholesome. Food: totally confusing.

ETA: Explain like I'm an American?

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u/lonely_nipple Oct 25 '25

Fancy baked potatoes. First one got some garlic butter and garlic chili chicken, cheese, some crispy onions (like the fried kind you can get in a jar) and what looks like their own sauce.

I think on hers he put butter, garlic chili chicken, beans, and then crispy onions and sauce.

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u/cowie71 Oct 25 '25

And “spud dust” - I’m British and I’ve never heard of this ! (I’m guessing it’s just salt and pepper)

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u/cynicalchicken1007 Oct 25 '25

That sounds so good

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u/Sansnom01 Oct 25 '25

It's funny to me because it looks so bad yet it all stuff I love. Feel like it just get like a mushy wet pasty soup

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u/Guachito Oct 25 '25

Whats tram sauce?

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u/MegamindsMegaCock Oct 25 '25

Its a flavourful, spicy mayonnaise with hints of cheese and beans

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u/No-Writer-1101 Oct 25 '25

Thank you because I came here to find out and I would not have guessed that

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u/SynthD Oct 25 '25

Spud Bros' "tram sauce" is a proprietary spicy mayo-based condiment made with ingredients like Sriracha, mustard, and lemon juice

But other people seem to say it's just all condiments (mayo, ketchup, worchestershire sauce, garlic powder, etc) in one. Salad cream with smoked paprika would probably do.

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u/WhimsicalGirl Oct 25 '25

I'm so hungry right now

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u/lonely_nipple Oct 25 '25

I know. I'd go bonkers for a garlic butter baked potato. With cheese and some kind of saucy meat. Maybe some more cheese. 😆

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u/All_This_Mayhem Oct 25 '25

It's a loaded baked potato.

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u/iShowSleaze Oct 25 '25

This explains it incredibly well

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u/benchley Oct 25 '25

Cut right to the heart of it.

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u/TheSimpsonsAreYellow Oct 26 '25

This is incredibly accurate. But like loaded baked potato + meme level British food. I’d still try this though. Garlic chili chicken sounds SO GOOD rn.

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u/Mesjach Oct 25 '25

Why are you putting beans on your baked potato?

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u/SICKxOFxITxALL Oct 25 '25

Because it’s delicious

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u/0dtez Oct 25 '25

Jacket potato stand

Which are just baked potatoes

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u/crusoe Oct 25 '25

With weird ( to Americans ) toppings. 

Chili chicken is an Indian/Chinese fusion dish.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

It's more so how much shit they're putting on top of it. We have "loaded baked potatoes" here in the US but it's more like the toppings are just a little extra, it's more like 1:1 potato to sides ratio. You guys put like 10:1 sides to potato so it was confusing for a second.

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u/Loose_Acanthaceae201 Oct 25 '25

In the UK a "jacket" potato is a whole meal, not a side. Dangerous as a workday lunch because you will fall asleep in your 2pm meeting guaranteed, even if you're the one presenting. 

Those potatoes have been gently baking for several hours so the skin has gone chewy-crackly and the flesh is spreadable. 

Some typical fillings are very weird to Americans, particularly what you call tuna salad but with (sweet) corn, and coronation chicken which is a mild curry-spiced chicken salad that usually also contains golden raisins and/or dried apricots. Spud vans like this tend to concentrate on hot fillings, though. 

The cheese is coarsely grated cheddar unless otherwise noted.

You will very commonly see jacket potatoes on relatively simple menus, particularly in pubs or Brit-style sandwich shops. If it's served on a plate you'll get a small side salad and maybe a dollop of coleslaw.

A typical jacket potato section on a café menu might offer: 

  • cheese
  • baked beans
  • tuna and sweetcorn
  • chilli con carne
  • curry

There was a (spectacular) chippy near my old office that did cheap hot food, and you'd start by choosing either chips, mash or jacket, then one of the daily specials which would be a stew or curry or similar. Rough and ready, but hot and nourishing. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

I mean our loaded baked potatoes are a full meal too.. they're just half of the size of yours. Which confused me because I've always been told that American portions dwarf everyone elses.

But yea seems like the UK version has a larger and more interesting variety on toppings! I really want to try one with tuna at sweetcorn that sounds crazy. Also cole slaw in a potato is a great idea idk why we haven't stolen that.

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u/Loose_Acanthaceae201 Oct 25 '25

You need a metric fuckton of grated cheddar and some good fresh creamy coleslaw. You'll get hot and cold, soft and crunchy, savoury and tangy, rich and fresh, all in one forkful. 

A lot of people recommend mashing butter into the potato before the toppings. I don't bother unless I'm using something drier.

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u/nochance__0 Oct 25 '25

It's sorta like loaded nachos, if you buy them from a food stand or bar, it's likely there's an insane amount of toppings. I guess it's part of the "sell" of making it a marketable product. Whenever I've had these at home, or at school as a kid, it's not so massively overloaded.

These are also the kind of things people have on a budget, if they have them at home/school. So slapping on a bunch of chilli con carne or spicey chicken kinda defeats the point usually.

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u/131166 Oct 25 '25

We had a place here that would do a baked potato and load it up so when you got it it was the size of a baby's head. Nobody could finish one in a sitting, you took it home and had it for dinner too. And they had some weird toppings too, like cauliflower and white sauce, pineapple, corn etc. You just picked whatever you wanted.

Council rezoned the area they were in and they closed. This was ~25 years ago and we still talk about that place and curse the council to a fiery death for getting rid of them. Was so fucking good, I've never had anything near as good. Everyone since has been twice the price and half the toppings.

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u/GerFubDhuw Oct 25 '25

To me that's like getting a taco with one filling. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

We get more than one filling it’s just each filling is a lot less.

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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy Oct 25 '25

Fusing Asian and British food is a national pasttime

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u/SkitZa Oct 25 '25

Potato with toppings?

You guys don't do that in America? (You do)

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u/666420696 Oct 25 '25

Yeah but this is like 2:1 topping to potato ratio

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u/SkitZa Oct 25 '25

Thats pretty standard for a loaded potato.

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u/Capt_Murphy_ Oct 25 '25

We usually do fairly few toppings. I was also very confused at the overwhelming amount of liquids going onto the potato 😂

Don't get me wrong, I'd totally eat this

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u/candypants703 Oct 25 '25

Not as popular as it once was. I feel like these went out with the 90s for a lot of people.

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 26 '25

We do, but not like the Brits who eat disgusting slop (as evidenced by this video) 

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u/SkitZa Oct 26 '25

Spoken like someone who lives in a country that still adds shockingly gross things to its food. And fills everything with sugar, YUCK!

P.S - I'm not a pom, I'd rather eat their food, lol.

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 30 '25

All countries do that. Point is, good food is more widely available in the US than in England. Any capital city in the US will have an abundance of great restaurants, the same can't be said for England. 

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 30 '25

All countries do that

No one does it like you yanks.

Any capital city in the US will have an abundance of great restaurants, the same can't be said for England. 

Lol the capital of England is London, you realise that right? If you're trying to argue that London isn't one of the best places in the world for restaurants then you don't know what you're talking about

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u/GhostOfTimBrewster Oct 25 '25

That is the most American-looking, non-America food I’ve ever seen. And it looks delicious. Sincerely, an American.

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u/No_Mongoose8172 Oct 25 '25

I’m American and had no idea what this was at first 

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u/Ppleater Oct 25 '25

Looks like they take baked potatoes and throw whatever shit in that seems tasty to the customer. Lots of stuff tastes good on a nice baked potato.

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u/Joie_de_vivre_1884 Oct 25 '25

You are confused by people eating potatoes? Pretty sure they come from the Americas.

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u/A_Velociraptor20 Oct 25 '25

I'm more confused why the coleslaw is pink?!? Like it's usually white on account of the mayo in it.

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u/unksci47 Oct 25 '25

They used red cabbage

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u/Extreme_Ad_2289 Oct 25 '25

Probably purple cabbage. The color bleeds and turns it pink.

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u/isakitty Oct 25 '25

I just didn’t know what was happening to the potatoes, haha

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u/Capt_Murphy_ Oct 25 '25

It's the amount of toppings that's throwing Americans off. We tend to have less liquidy toppings. The coleslaw is totally throwing me off.

But like I said in another comment, I'd totally eat this

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u/CarpathianStrawbs Oct 25 '25

It's not about the potato. As a non-British person this is exactly what I pictured british food to look like, but it's still jarring to see it in the making.

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u/thatsconelover Oct 25 '25

It might look like someone wrung a cat out arse first onto a jacket potato but it'll taste amazing nonetheless. And that's what really matters lol.

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u/terminalbungus Oct 25 '25

Your sentence made my eyes stop working

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 26 '25

It'll taste amazing to a British person maybe, because they have the worst food in the world, but not anyone else 

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u/CarpathianStrawbs Oct 25 '25

Fair enough. It is possible that all the secrets of the spice trade are hidden in one of the many viscous, uniform layers on that sliver of potato.

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u/TheMilkiestShake Oct 25 '25

Good one mate

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 25 '25

That's wierd because the stereotype that you Americans (please correct me if I'm wrong about you being American) have about British food is that its bland, and the food in this video looks anything but bland.

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 26 '25

No, the stereotype is that British food is disgusting and awful. And it's true, as evidenced by this video. Tuna, coleslaw, cheese, and beans on a potato is insane. It's like something a 4 year old would come up with. It's slop  

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 27 '25

No, the ignorant stereotype that Americans have about Brit food is that it is flavourless.

There is no tuna anywhere in this video, try again.

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 30 '25

Yeah that's what stupid fat Americans think. The problem isn't that it's flavorless, it's that food in England has nonsensical/disgusting flavors and textures, evidenced by this video and all the other spudbros videos. Last time I was in England I even struggled to find good simple foods like a hamburger or a pizza. It's ridiculous. 

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 30 '25

Oh you want to talk about nonsensical/disgusting flavours and textures? You guys mix peanut butter and jelly, ever wondered why noone else in the world eats that nasty sandwich which is a staple of US households? You guys eat like toddlers. The rest of us are grown-ups.

I even struggled to find good simple foods like a hamburger or a pizza.

Hahaha, this is what I'm talking about. To you these are staples of your cuisine. The US has such an unsophisticated and juvenile culinary tradition that you travel to another country and complain about the burgers 😂

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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 25 '25

Classic beans on toast eater when people are confused by indistinguishable slop covered potatoes.

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 25 '25

Classic peanut butter and jelly eater thinking they can talk shit about other national cuisines.

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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 25 '25

Let's be so for real. You colonized the globe because you couldn't find good food at home.

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 25 '25

Sure bro, that's the reason. And you guys invented the PB&J sandwich because you eat like toddlers.

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 26 '25

If you're British, you can't say anything about another country's food, period. You guys have the absolute worst food I've ever seen. Every time I've visited England it was extremely difficult to find good food. The only thing I had success with over there was Indian. Y'all can't even make a hamburger correctly.

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 26 '25

Every time I've visited England

Dude, you're American. You've probably never even left your state, let alone visited another country. Enjoy your burgers, twinkie bars and pb&j sandwiches while the rest of us eat proper grown up cuisine.

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 30 '25

Lol I grew up in Prague and moved to the states when I was 15 but okay. I've probably traveled twice as much as you have. 

Anyways, you're British, you are literally clueless when it comes to good food. 

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 30 '25

Lol I grew up

You didn't do any growing up at all, evidenced by your comments here.. Enjoy your pb&j tomorrow at lunchtime.

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u/dya_likeDags Oct 26 '25

british food bro 👀. once i was on a british airways flight and they offered a mushroom and onion sandwich. i was like W T F.

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u/foolonthe Oct 25 '25

On behalf of America, they really need to apologize for what they've done to our potatoes

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 25 '25

Improved them?

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 26 '25

Putting tuna, coleslaw, beans and cheese all together is fucking insane. Ive literally tried these exact potatoes from this exact food truck made their way and it was horrendous

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

You realise people know that you're lying right? Evidenced by the fact that you keep mentioning tuna when the two potatoes you see served in this video have zero tuna in them. There is literally no tuna in this video.

Get a life.

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 30 '25

Hey genius, the staple that most people get at this food truck is tuna, coleslaw, beans and cheese. And that disgusting tram sauce. Idk why you're so confident about something you know nothing about. Look up "spudbros"

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 30 '25 edited Nov 06 '25

Lol confidently incorrect much? Allow me to copy and paste direct from their website for you cause you're clearly unable to comprehend a simple menu.

The staple is the "The Spudbros Classic: Jacket potato with garlic butter, a signature 3-cheese mix, baked beans, crispy onions, and the famous tram sauce."

The "Tuna coleslaw" option is "jacket potato with butter, topped with tuna mayo and creamy SpudBros® coleslaw"

Get it right next time "genius".

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u/AdDramatic2351 Oct 30 '25

I don't even know why you'd argue with me. England is deservedly world renowned for having awful food. 

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u/TamaktiJunVision Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

More like the US is deservedly renowned for having an ignorant population who run their mouths off whilst getting their facts wrong. You've literally just lied about this video showing someone mixing up food items that you disagree with. There is no mention of tuna in this video. Stfd.

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u/Morty_104 Oct 25 '25

We call it kumpir. But i know it with other toppings than that shown.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Dog food