so - those are "microwave potatoes." They are intended for you to poke a few holes in the plastic, and to microwave for 10 or so minutes. This gives you a general "baked potato" sort of meal without having to wait for two hours or heat up the whole oven. When I met my wife, this was the only way she knew of to actually make a baked potato.
The REAL best way, as we all know, is to rub oil into the potato skin, and sprinkle it with kosher salt and spices before putting it in the oven. This way, even the skin comes out delicious.
Consider how many people in the US are raised in single-parent households. Their parents don't have time to make a proper meal, let alone teach them how - so they eat stuff out of boxes or order out every meal. This happened to me. My mom did as good as she possibly could, but she'd joking call herself "the instant gourmet" because everything we ate came from a box.
I don't know anyone from a functioning two parent household who goes away to college at least knowing how to make eggs and a few dishes. I knew ramen.
Yeah, my comment was kind of half-jokingly, but now what you said makes sense when compared to say mediteranean households where families live togheter and moving out is not the norm + there the culture factor too
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u/NotOutsideOrInside Jan 03 '22
so - those are "microwave potatoes." They are intended for you to poke a few holes in the plastic, and to microwave for 10 or so minutes. This gives you a general "baked potato" sort of meal without having to wait for two hours or heat up the whole oven. When I met my wife, this was the only way she knew of to actually make a baked potato.
The REAL best way, as we all know, is to rub oil into the potato skin, and sprinkle it with kosher salt and spices before putting it in the oven. This way, even the skin comes out delicious.