Good news for anyone avoiding potatoes bc tHeY’rE cArBs 
for anything other than health-related reasons.
Potato is life. Potato is good for you. There’s a reason for its international popularity. Eat the potato whichever way flutes yer boot.
Just keep those imposters i.e. sweet potatoes far, far away from me.
I don’t care if they’re healthy or not. I love potatoes in all shapes and forms.
The only time I got sick of potatoes was traveling Ireland with my Mom, and it was on EVERY DAMN table in a pub (Family style serving). When I was able to have a rice pilaf, I rejoiced (even if it was dry AF).
But they ARE healthy. And delicious!
Add me to that list, as well!!
Potatoes meet the definition of a superfood, so they are healthy in most forms. If they weren’t nutritious, they’d might have never become the staple they are. Of course as a staple, hard to market TF out of them like a “new” (to many) superfoods like (the latest fill in the blank). Spinach, broccoli and other American staples are also superfoods but hard to market that as new and shiny.
For the carb adverse, there are ways to create resistant starches, reduce glycemic load…refrigerate or freeze them. Of course this doesn’t work for some preparations but for stuff like roasted potatoes, yes. Boil the spuds, refrig and then roast. Same holds true for white rice and even bread. I eat potatoes all the time, keep some boil spuds in the frig.
Of course it’s difficult to do with french fries.
I like to prepare and eat most of my carbs fresh, including bread, pasta & rice — with the notable exception of fried rice, of course, as that ish needs to be older than a day to work.
Agree, some carbs are best eaten fresh like rice with a Chinese meal. But if you’re a diabetic like me, you learn tricks and take a minor drop in appeal. Not as good but I got the diabetes in remission from these types of tricks….and no meds. YMMV.
Well done, YOU! 
Wow, that is excellent! Way to go!!!
Also, I was making the point that you actually need ‘old’ rice for fried rice. I probz don’t mind rice or potatoes reheated. Pre-cooking pasta to refrigerate is a head scratcher, but I guess if one has to do it for diabetes, more power to the “old carb” eaters 
Thanks. The more I get into this, the more I realize there’s potatoes dishes that work well cold or after refrigeration, like tortilla Espanola, aka Spanish omelette. Cottage pie with leftover potatoes also work. Of course I’ll never refused a french fry, just not daily or even weekly but I will eat the whole order.
Yeah pasta, that’s a hard one. But as I understand it, al dente makes a big difference and that might be why Italians insist on it.
No way! Have you tried Japanese sweet potatoes? You can’t think of them as a Russet substitute, they’re certainly a different thing, but they’re amazing in their own right.
Always al dente. I despite overcooked pasta with a passion.
Among Chinese-Americans of my generation - more specifically, those whose ancestral lines immigrated to the US in the 1st quarter (more or less) of the 20th century - there was a saying: Eat potatoes, go back to China. The subtext of the saying is that they ALL wanted to return to China after making a relative fortune in the United States. The broader context of the saying is that potatoes were cheaper than rice. Hence, if potatoes replaced rice as daily carbs, we could save money faster to return to China.
For the record, my grandfather actually did return to China, but fled back to the US when things started to look not so great just before WW2.
If they have any hint of sweetness it’s a non-starter. I prefer my potatoes not sweet.
Stockton resident from Japan , George Shima was a potato king.
I grew up in Stockton and currently live just outside, so I’m going to correct you just a bit: George Shima was The Potato King.
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but we learned in school that what he did to make his fortune was to wash his spuds before taking them to market. Supposedly, at the time, potatoes were put on display with dirt still caked on them, but Shima rinsed them off so they looked nicer in the stores.
Ahem, it should be “How Healthful Are Potatoes?”
Agree with the day-in-fridge philosophy for fried rice as well.
