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Food metaphors go a long way.
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Cthornbe
An older cousin of mine was in a skateboarding accident he hit his head on a curb and since then hasn't been able to taste or smell anything
Zulathan
Mashed potatoes with garlic, butter, and cream is the food of kings and champions.
StarkTangent
"Fuck you for trying to help"
BilldeTurlock
sorry
1spodaspakers
This is actually a pretty good explanation. It's weird how we don't really have language for it so we have to use potatoes and shit
OpportunismIsGod
While adulthood/parenthood/marriage could be described with cats:
BilldeTurlock
Well, potatoes, anyway.
Amblydoper
Shit too, sometimes.
MyLuggageAteMyHomework
And then the people who give you advice get pissed when you say it doesn't work & they accuse you of not listening or being a stubborn ass
bluto1415
I hate being depressed.
Piornet
This is completely accurate, but for the record, it should say "cafeteria mashed potatoes".
Matthias964
My boyfriend broke up with me, saying it was because of his depression. I never fully understood until this description of what he suffered.
TheLimpinBiscuit
The Dementors were based on JK Rowling's personal experience with depression.
imgurisfornerds
I see lots of posts describing what depression is, but I've yet to see 1 that want to give advice in how can one help someone w// depression
SepticStorm
because there is not magic solution. for all the help you can get, you ultimately have to pull yourself out of the hole.
KingKendrickLamar
But you also can rarely pull yourself out of that hole unless you have help.
SepticStorm
Right. but in the end you have to accept the help. no one can do it for you.
KingKendrickLamar
Real talk
KingKendrickLamar
These tumblr posts always strike far too close to home... +1 for terrifying accuracy.
ravnicrasol
Every now and then something actually meaningful makes its way past the murk... a bit like usersub really.
Ralpheroo
these are like horoscopes vague enough to apply to millions of people
KingKendrickLamar
Brilliant Holmes! You are correct! Because they describe depression, which is a disorder that millions have!
Ralpheroo
yeah i'm saying you're not a special snowflake for having depression.
KingKendrickLamar
I never said I was a special snowflake for having depression. Just that this Tumblr post hit close to home.
guilhermedidi
I know, right?
javaknowledge
The two worst words in the english language are " cheer up"
Faeorie
Ive somehow forced myself to just be upbeat and happy most days and that's how I get by. Still, when a bad day hits, it can be soul crushing
JustmeSoraka
I suffer from depression, and I decided to go on a Soylent diet, a nutritionally sufficient powered meal replacement that tastes like 1/3
JustmeSoraka
2/3 lightly peanut flavored watery oatmeal, because I have developed the inability to pick which foods I actually want to eat when given a
JustmeSoraka
3/4 choice and just settle for something that in the end just doesn't really make me enjoy it, i eat it because it's there. Now I only drink
JustmeSoraka
4/4 Soylent because I know whats in it and don't have to think about it and worry about what I eat. But I also used to love food once.
Cathy1532
I know how you feel when you mean you used to love food. After a while it doesn't feel like much anymore.
VulpineAxiom
I um...I like mashed potatoes...
jimjamhasamom
Id like to have some depression with a side of gravy, please.
visualvendetta
Try chronic, deep anxiety 24/7. Your "imminent danger" neurons fire nonstop, but there's nothing actually wrong. Perpetual freakout.
BilldeTurlock
Ahhh... PTSD. BTDT, too. Figured that one out ~ 7YA. Got help from VA, it's working. The insideof my head feels better than in decades!!
minishaff
Ugh. Tell me about it. Sometimes I think feeling nothing would be better than inexplicable fear and panic for hours/days at a time.
visualvendetta
Feel you! I think depression is worse though. I can channel the panic but the raw unreasoning chemical sense of sheer dread never leaves.
minishaff
I've been told the empty feeling depression leaves is awful. I only experience anxiety, but I can imagine how miserable depression is.
visualvendetta
Yes, us anxious types really live very full lives in a very real sense. I've seen clinically depressed people, such a horrible thing.
vexxed14
It still doesn't change the fact that you have to keep eating to have any hope of getting better... As well as getting some help...
hyperdistortion
This is me, every few months. Then I remember pizza exists, and I love pizza (metaphorically speaking). Still, tough truths.
BilldeTurlock
Pizza cures depression. (or at least, treats is for a little while). BTW, alcohol Does Not! BTDT, too.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
But, I like mashed potatoes. I'd probably eat much healthier if all the good for you crap tasted like mashed potatoes.
ImgurBannedMeWtf
I think, things really started to look up when she let me put a finger in her butt. You gotta figure out what your butt & finger are in life
SpasticWrangler
So depression doesn't affect Irish people?
invisiblecripple
oh it does.... also i don't like potatoes.. as an Irish person.. maybe someone dropped me as a baby.
GlitterInTheDarkNearTheTannhauserGate
why do you think they drink so much?
ThisIsGod
Yes and no. There was that great potato famine.
eruditic
gravy. everything is better with gravy.
dandelionbomb
and f you
mynameisnotalice
Still tastes like nothing in this metaphor.
daclownie
This person on tumblr apparently never had garlic mashed potatoes. Just saying'
dandelionbomb
and f you
megaepicllama
dude chill
Kasai
Except no garlic, just the potato.
DarkWingDerpy
But it's only the potato, the shitty insta-mash "potato" bs, no flavour what so ever.
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
The metaphor is that the spices never work. You can't taste the garlic no matter how much you put in. You could eat a clove of garlic even.
caut10uslyadv3ntur0us
Being Asian.... depression is like mushy rice with no side dishes
Beezelblublublub
is rike**
raosion
As a fellow Asian, wow that sounds awful.
Lykasmitts
I FUCKING LOVE RICE! But now it doesn't taste like what it used too. I'd describe depression as all the happy sucked out of you though
OSCgal
I described it as "all the meaning has bled out of the world." But sometimes it works to use analogies like color and taste.
JacobWetzel
I'm Filipino. I almost cried when I read this.
AlakazamRemindsMeOfASlowLorisButHeHasAMoustacheAndBendySpoons
Being Canadian, rice IS the side dish
HanS0lPurr
this. completely this.
randawg
Indeed. Completely indeed.
itisshinobi
As another Asian who dealt with an overcame depression, I'd have to say it's like noodles with no soup.
TouchThaFishyyy
Or even worse... Soup without noodles.
imgurismylyfe
But...I like mushy rice even without the side dishes :(
Malvier
Are you bisayan? <<
QueenoftheCrows
But rice is the best! :O
ifYouGetThisToTheFrontPageThatWouldBeNice
True. But mushy rice? Blehhhh
sezwat
I'm Indian. I can relate to this.
chlorinatemyworld
Isn't India in Asia?
sezwat
Fine. I'm South-East Asian.
LordOfTheFilth
sezwat
Idhu super aa irku !
Chezwyk
Great, now I'm craving mashed potatoes with curry
sezwat
I should try that sometime..
thatarrogantchild
As an Indian as well ... no curry with only plain rice is absolutely inedible .
sezwat
Yea dude.. Extra stress on the absolutely.
quantumpacket
Me too bhaiyaji.
blitherypoop
It's kinda literally this for me when it's bad. I'll eat sorta whatever. "How is that?" "Kinda awful." *keeps eating*
1spodaspakers
Haha yeah I'll eat just like, 4 bananas because it's easy and not interesting
1spodaspakers
(2) In a day, I mean. I don't sit down and eat 4 bananas in a sitting.
TitanKyojin
I remember as a young kid I ate 3 and 3/4 hotdogs for supper. I don't know what my stomach was telling my brain that day.
blitherypoop
I've eaten a pound of mediocre macaroni salad just so I wouldn't have to eat it later.
1spodaspakers
Yeah it doesn't really matter how it tastes, does it. Have you had it your whole life?
blitherypoop
The macaroni salad?
blitherypoop
...kidding. Yeah, I've had depression for as long as I can remember.
whotoremypantstho
And then when you're finally tasting everything again and enjoying yourself, if you get even a hint of mashed potato you're afraid it's
MyLuggageAteMyHomework
I was miserable before I transferred colleges. I literally try to pretend that year of my life didn't happen because remembering it hurts
whotoremypantstho
coming back, and you kinda wish you could just stop eating.
TeamRocketHR
Completely. Or when you get a delicious taste and you worry that it's made of mash when it's not, but you're already worried.
whotoremypantstho
YES!!! You start to doubt and it taints everything.
KingKendrickLamar
Far too true. Whenever I happen to have a bad day, my anxiety kicks in full force and I just want to stop everything.
RedPeggy
I get nervous about Christmas and other times where you are supposed to be happy. It's a vicious circle.
whotoremypantstho
Same. :/
MaraSaurusRekt
Depression is like try to peal a potato with another potato, it's not fun, it doesn't work and it just makes you want to cry.
ThisIsGod
I'm pretty sure its onions that make you want to cry.
IAlwaysPupvoteDog
Like 10 thousand potatoes when all you need is a knife.
emolta
Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
Nerdygasm
A little too ironic. yeah, I really do think.
INeverWearABra
Peel*, sorry. Had to
JuanMoreNight
Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die
someonestolemyawesomeusername
My fridge is screaming potatoes then.
JetMarks
As an Irishman... Why not just eat the potatoes? The skins are the best part.
kevinallover
As Latvian, I is wishing of has two potato for pealings.
someonestolemyawesomeusername
And when people ask what's wrong, and you answer, they give you ANOTHER potato
sleete
And making said potatoes into vodka just makes you feel worse after drinking those potatoes.
spospartan104
Thanks for the laugh. It was a helpful grin on a gray day. It also makes you want to throw potatoes.
giraffenado
Ah. A Latvians dream! Then politburo comes and takes potato away and sends you to gulag. Such is life!
DoorTempleArch
For me depression wasn't always feeling down. I'd have good & bad days. Near constant apathy was the only consistent thing
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straightcreepen
midterms and end of term paper. Which I would do in 2 days. No one at school knew, barely even my family- my bf saw it all and I honestly 4
LadyLaunchpadMcQuack
Same here. When I start to feel down, browsing imgur and playing with my kids are the only times my smiles are real.
WickedFlowers
That sounds exactly like me and now you have me worried I might have depression and that my apathy towards life isn't normal...
OscarWilde1854
I don't think I'll ever understand it.. I'm an NPH kind of guy: "when I'm sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead"
imasterbatetoearlobes
I have the same problem, I just become unemotional all the time. Though I do become happy in some moments but go back unemotional.
TheRaith
This was hoe it was after years for Mr, but I recalled it starting as described above. I didn't know why I no longer cared and then the
LiTMac
That was pretty much my experience. The only escape I wasn't apathetic to at the time was music, but that was only on upswings.
justanotheroneoftheguys
I'm pretty sure this is me...
enigma1235
Apathy is death- Darth Traya
halfsquatch
Apathy apathy apathy, everything is muffled like you're living under a mattress
Bowen92
This is how I feel. I have things that matter to me, but nothing matters near as much as it used to. It's all a big "meh"..
beartato
Is that actually a good way to tell?
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beartato
Oh boy. I kind of thought it was weird how I just didn't want to do anything anymore lately. and how I used to love bikign, but stopped.
thundercactus
Mine was a constant weight. The solution was surprisingly simple; become the thing I wanted to be. Started working out, gave no fucks, cured
PepeSilviaPepeSilvia
For some reason the apathy stayed with me forever. I don't give a bleep about anything. Just kinda go with the flow now
tutorp
To me, the post seems to describe apathy.
Thor1229
People think "oh you smile a lot and laugh you can't be depressed!" THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS, THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS!
CatsandDnD
Or "But you're not cutting yourself, you can't be depressed."
MattFromTheInternet
Crap, I thought I was just an asshole. Turns out I'm depressed too.
TheFogComesOnLittleCatFeet
Depression is more about feeling "nothing" than it is feeling "bad", and nothing feels a whole lot worse than bad.
IAmJacksViagraInducedErection
For me it is like watching myself from inside a glass box. When things get hard the glass starts to tint
Carger
So tired. All the fucking time.
isthatriight
Some days i think im really bipolar because of my shifts. I try to act normal in front of people. Then break down completely when im alone
AllIHaveHadTodayIsLikeSixGummyBearsAndSomeScotch
Exactly. I can't bring myself to care about anything. Made me ruin things with more than one girl and cost me my good grades.
Turalisj
"But you're so smart, why don't you apply yourself more!"
AllIHaveHadTodayIsLikeSixGummyBearsAndSomeScotch
That's my social circle all over :D
AllIHaveHadTodayIsLikeSixGummyBearsAndSomeScotch
I mean I never flunked anything, but I could get so much better grades. But all I think when I consider putting in more effort is "meh".
AbandonedOppossom
Oh I flunked... everything. Really.
AnonymousCanadian
That sounds like me..
NachosWarfare
I feel this so hard right now
wompwompwomp
Depression for me isn't feeling sad. It's apathy, lethargy, dysphoria and lack of vitality which this metaphor describes well. It's boring.
DoctorOwly
It makes it harder for others to understand too. They see you happy one day and think your depression can't be "that bad."
supremecx
More this for me. Total apathy towards everything except, luckily, my education.
zestycheeze
I am starting college and I have problems with depression. TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!
psein
what do you believe in, do you have someone to love, can you make yourself act like you're something even if you feel dead inside. 1/?
psein
If you find a peaceful way to look at the world that makes it tolerable you're on the right path. Love someone, or at least try to form 2/?
psein
meaningful friendships, and not hate yourself even if everything seems to suck. By acting like you are something I mean that you have to 3/?
skybomb53
Wasn't so lucky.
JumpTheCheeseburger
Same here, I don't care about much except keeping my job and finishing my masters in May.
AnnFranksMilitia
For a while last year, I had total apathy towards everything but... Kingdom Hearts 2.5. I got that game and sunk like 100 hours into (1/2)
AnnFranksMilitia
it over the course of like two weeks and then just restarted and did it again.
CuteThingsAreMyWeakness
Did you do the data rematches? I am but a lowly scrub and I've only done 3 ;-;
AnnFranksMilitia
Yeah. Beat all the Mushroom XIII minigames at their max level, beat all the Data Replicas, and finally, after hundreds of tries, beat (1/2)
GrootamI
The more down I feel, the more I end up concentrating on my studies.
psein
the opposite here, just starting to fix things
IDidntThinkAboutThis
Ditto. Good luck!
BreadLettuceTomatoes
Me too, you got this!
Surkhan
Same boat as you. We got this.
straightcreepen
days and then the rest of the week try not to cry on the couch, and because I was in social sciences I only really needed to rally for my 3
straightcreepen
the house it was nagging fear (especially driving). But I only had class Tuesday/Thursday first term and I could fake it through those two 2
CatsandDnD
I don't know life without apathy.
SuccesfulFailure
Apathy is main more problem. I hardly feel down about shit. I'm a pretty happy go lucky guy. I just can't find it in me to give a fuck.
SuccesfulFailure
I sometimes have days where I will be mega active and excited and will fuck with people and be really annoying. Then go back to just 'meh'.
UndercoverDumbledore
For me it was the shifts that get me. I can be really excited for something and then when it happens just not care.
imamermaidgangleader
this. almost every holiday or event that I'm eagerly looking forward to. I wont get out of bed and make the effort to go
Danielmakesmusicitsgreat
I'm panicking about my 30 birthday because of this, everyone is excited but me
UndercoverDumbledore
I have a birthday coming up and I am in the same boat!
Danielmakesmusicitsgreat
Maybe we should have a joint one, separately in our own homes
UndercoverDumbledore
My mum has planned mine and won't tell me what we are doing. I haven't the heart to tell her it is heightening my anxiety!
ScubaStevie
I'm the same way about everything I get excited about.
GarrettStopMotion
you guys are like describing me but, I never thought of my self as depressed
UndercoverDumbledore
By agreeing to comments it doesn't mean you are depressed. Everyone has down days so I wouldn't worry too much :)
UndercoverDumbledore
But if you are concerned then speak to your doctor and they can help in whichever way you might need it!
GarrettStopMotion
I do not have a doctor or any one whom I could talk to hahah, I guess thats some of the problem
UndercoverDumbledore
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UndercoverDumbledore
I saw via your photo website you are from Colorado so I've linked some places I've found online which could help. I hope you are well :)
straightcreepen
See and mine was the result of trauma so I got some anxiety shit mixed in that meant some days it was a win just not to cry and when I left1
hailtothecheese
2 days ago I was happy and excited. Today I called in sick because I was not able to get up... This is so exhausting -.-
sweettlc
Hope things get better. I understand. Hugs---
Suicidalthoughtsthatwontgoaway
I know how exhausting it is :(
pinkfuzzybunny
Yes, this. I'm so lucky I went through it before grades really mattered. Now if I went through depression in grad school, I'd kill myself.
DoorTempleArch
I put off attending grad school by two years because I knew that I couldn't handle it then and that I would potentially hurt myself if I had
straightcreepen
have no idea how on Earth he stayed with me. I think the "trigger" or cause of the depression (event or general) effects the feelings a lot5
kapelophilus
To my knowledge, that's the definition. Not being sad all the time, just the inability to feel anything and the uncomfortability that... 1/2
Miniaturemac
Well? We're waiting!
kapelophilus
Made the mistake of using the Android app. Randomly won't register button presses.
wompwompwomp
You're right. Some people describe feeling sad, but not everybody.
kapelophilus
...comes with it. 2/2
KingKendrickLamar
I'm kinda jealous. For me it was constant crushing despair, the only thing I really cared about was debate.
CourtsCrystal
It doesn't make me feel any better knowing im not alone. It just makes me feel sad because others are suffering as I am. Its not fair. . .
isthatriight
But we are all getting through it together because we arean't alone
CourtsCrystal
Shifts in perspective are always beneficial. Thank you.
isthatriight
Hey, I've been battling with depression since I was a kid. If you want to talk just msg me kay?
CourtsCrystal
Thanks man :) that's really kind of you.
gamlingcs
I feel you, life ain't fair, and sometimes life needs a serious punch in the dick.
Wolfire0769
All the better you're not alone. I challenge you to make someones day a lil brighter. One smile, every day. It might just make your day too.
thingssomeonesays
I'm on two different medications for chronic depression. I thought I knew the ins and outs. This post right here made me realize 1/2
thingssomeonesays
2/2 I might need to adjust my meds. Apathy. So. Much. Apathy. Is it possible to be happy and apathetic at the same time?
MyMiddleNameIsAllen
That's me in a nutshell. I used to have a zest for life, but the last few years have been total apathy. I'm generally a "happy" person.
thingssomeonesays
I always just kind of thought it was the drugs leveling everything out. But yeah, there's no zeal there, either. I have no passion.
MyMiddleNameIsAllen
It's tough measuring exactly how the drugs affect each individual. Myself today compared to panic attacks though? I'll deal with this.
MyMiddleNameIsAllen
(2) Depression is complicated shit. For me it's 100% internal. "I never would've thought he felt that way." Today is even my cake day heh.
KnittedNautilus
Happy Cake Day! :)
MyMiddleNameIsAllen
<3 :)
KristineSixteen
I just feel like I'm walking through wet cement. I don't care about anyone anymore. Showering feels like an insurmountable task. This is it.
Runner55
When I was at my lowest of lows I was afraid of walking past windows because I didn't trust myself not to jump out of them, but I made 1/2
Runner55
it! I still have anxiety sometimes but I can control it. Things will get better. Never lose hope. 2/2
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Runner55
I used to do that too. Started working out recently and now I don't mind them much. One thing that made a big difference for me was 1/2
Runner55
forcing myself to get up and start my day with a shower. Also, getting help finding a meaningful activity helped alot. 2/2
KristineSixteen
Can I message you?
Slots
I love mashed potatoes. I don't think I completely understand this.
dandelionbomb
and f you
NightRush
I get the point of the post, it's a valid metaphor... but I fucking love mashed potatoes. Bad example there :P
lizwah
I have depression.. Mashed potatoes would be good. It's more like plain cereal to me.
PrincessMistee
Cereal with water instead of milk! xD *shudders*
superskin
Yeah it's my favourite food. I think this is a great analogy...but only if you're used to shitty mash :(
nipplepanties
Plain yogurt then? Its....fine...though nothing to look forward to forever
Ohhhlookaunicorneatingasamurai
I'm weird. I don't like mashed potatoes because I feel like I am rating prechewed food. But creamed corn and oatmeal I'm fine with.
PrincessMistee
That's strange, pre-chewed food would have chunks so much more like oatmeal and creamed corn than mashed potatoes lol. I LOVE MASH POTATOS
Ohhhlookaunicorneatingasamurai
I know right, I think it is because of the chunks that makes me feel like it has a "crunch" factor that my food wasn't chewed yet.
IAmJacksViagraInducedErection
Instructions unclear. I now have 3 different dishes of potatoes in the oven.
DatDarthCaedus
Ugh I couldn't eat mashed potatoes for years, just cuz the mash served at school lunches tasted LITERALLY nothing. It was like a 1/2
DatDarthCaedus
black hole for taste... you could pour ketchup and spices and butter on it, expecting it to gain these flavors... NOPE. Nothing. At all.
ravnicrasol
Imagine same taste every time all the time. It's the same thing as using your favorite song in your alarm clock. You'll eventually hate it.
wellImightaswell
Boiled cabbage, then?
holtyun
I logged in to make this exact comment.. argument invalid, mashed potatoes everyday!
realbrickwall
Mashed potatoes but with no butter or salt or gravy. Just potato.
Punkdrumbum
Next time just have mashed potatoes with no butter, salt, or pretty much anything. Boil potatoes and throw them in a bowl and punch em a lot
Punkdrumbum
Next time just have mashed potatoes with no butter, salt, or pretty much anything. Boil potatoes and throw them in a bowl and punch em a lot
PrfctDrk
Every. Fucking. Day?
Tensa47
I ate mashed potatoes for two weeks my freshman year and nothing else, for the rest of the year I avoided them like the plague
Lepiment
Rookie mistake. You ought to alterne the rice/pasta/potato in rotation
TheImgurNeoConConcious
you sick fuck
rickybobbyryangetzlaf
Think of Polenta instead.
killlatwix
Yeah, I'm struggling with this delicious analogy.
Slots
Its been a year and a half and I still want more mashed potatoes.
IAmTheBadW01f
I once had someone describe their depression to me as "everything tastes like apple pie, except it's horrible."
Jaceftl
Sure mashed potatoes can be amazing when you have added the cream and butter and salt and pepper. And if it was only potatoes mashed? Then?
Equidae
The single lowest moment of helplessness in all my life I cried to a friend, "I just want some mashed potatoes."
LongSnailTrail
Just imagine they're talking about instant mashed potatoes, not actual good mashed potatoes.
Matthew0275
not homemade, but like... the ... instant box kind -shudders-
Geo80
I think OP has been making mashed potato all wrong.
midnightowl79
replace it with bread. You could make sandwiches, toast etc but it will all seem like plain, 2 day-old bread.
RenIsTired
Imagine that regardless of what seasoning or toppings you used... it still always tasted like unadorned mashed potatoes. No butter, no gravy
HomelessToddler
Maybe you'll like depression too.
reijigin
Yeah this being my favorite food, now depression sounds sweeeet
flapperfemmefatale
this. this made depression sound awesome to me.
Gaidenninjacat
When you lose your sense of taste everything actually kinda taste like dried cardboard
Kasai
Okay fine, everything tastes like sauerkraut, does that make the analogy work better for you?
Slots
For me? Yes.
FuckThisThingInParticular
Should've used oatmeal in their simile but other than that, this is really accurate.
Slots
It makes tons more sense this way.
PrincessMistee
God do I hate oatmeal.
MimzytheBun
When I struggle with my appetite, I often compare the feeling of eating to chewing cardboard. Unpleasant and unrewarding.
LilyRoseDove
but like, the bad oatmeal without cinamon or butter
onecowboytoo
Lima beans would be even better.
LongSnailTrail
I like oatmeal more than most mashed potatoes. Fuck instant mashed potatoes specifically.
flamingflamingo
I'm pretty sure I could eat buttered mash potatoes for the rest of my life and be completely happy, until the day I die from malnutrition.
BrazilianThunderPanda
Potatoes are as close to a perfect food as there is. As long as you eat the skin with it, it has everything you need except calcium.
ShannonNotelling
The ability to survive does not equal desire to do so.
flamingflamingo
I don't think that was the point the guy was making.
ShannonNotelling
You can't taste the butter. No flavor or spice. No matter what you add... it's bland. You can't taste it and you're always hungry.
justhockey
Or die from a heart attack because you tried too hard to put flavor in the potatoes and end up eating sticks of butter every meal.
flamingflamingo
I think that is a good death.
justhockey
:) how many people will die the American death, lol
1spodaspakers
I want to go to mashed potato heaven >:[
TheJudgeHasItBackwards
My first thought... I could sure go for some mashed potatoes right about now
ThisAccountIsOnlyActiveSoPeopleCanUseMyTrumpGif
I'd rather have a few perogies.
iPretend
Unsalted, unbuttered mashed potatoes.
TheMightyCock
but can you eat it again tomorrow, and then the day after, and everyday afterward?
ilikedogsdogsarecool
I had a solid three month phase during which I would buy those big microwave tubs of mashed potatoes and eat them as meals with nothing else
MOTHERFUCKINGFLYINGSPAGHETTIMONSTER
Just cook a bouillon cube with water and pour it on the pile of mashed potatoes. Heavenly and easy
evolution4407
With skin and chunks, and a bit of sour cream and garlic ... and possibly shaped like a rock formation in Wyoming.
ThatsNotWhatHeSaidThough
Savage!
Ohhhlookaunicorneatingasamurai
Skin chunks....
BaldEagleBeater666
Holy fuck no! Why do you Americans keep the skin on? Peel it you savages
ThatsNotWhatHeSaidThough
We're not all like him! I like my spuds smooth like the thousand dunes of Arrakis.
flapperfemmefatale
American here. i like mine crazy smooth, no lumps.
BaldEagleBeater666
Just some butter, milk and loads of salt. That's perfect
Killerassassinx5x
But you can't taste the sour cream and garlic. That's the point of all this
evolution4407
Yes, you can. You're just not doing it right if you can't taste it.
MOTHERFUCKINGTACOCAT
Try Skittles instead, and taste the rainbow!
armeggedonCounselor
No, see, instead of tasting like mashed potatoes with butter and garlic and salt and all that stuff that gives it flavor, it just tastes
armeggedonCounselor
just the potato. With nothing else. Anything you add to it just intensifies the mashed potato taste. Just potato, forever.
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aychland
That's exactly the point.
aselfdefeatingattitude
Potato Forever is my superhero movie name.
prassel
so, the powder version?
OscarWilde1854
Lace me up.. LOVE potato...
frostedflakesaregrrrrrreat
We understand. It is just a little funny for those of us who love mashed potatoes. Humorous even though we are smart enough to understand.
iKnowMostlyRandomFacts
yeah, sometimes I just make plain mashed potatoes...no add-ins. I want potato, not butter, garlic or salt. PO TAY TO
umuziki
Maybe I'm the only one but I love plain potatoes...
TouchThaFishyyy
Plain, RAW, "mashed" potatoes.
tormady
You're not alone. Love me some plain potatoes.
dolaku
Plain potatoes all day, every day.
CapnJackSparrow
Is this the Irish section? 3rd class? Let's all dance a jig!
TouchThaFishyyy
idrinkcheapbeer
How DARE you not mention gravy.
armeggedonCounselor
I don't like gravy for the most part.
Geo80
Gravy is like cheating, if you need gravy to enjoy the potatoes you've made them incorrectly.
idrinkcheapbeer
Of course you don't NEED gravy. You don't NEED a lot of things but you still use them.