Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

Think we all must have too much time on our hands on this lousy day

NotSpaghetti

Roast potatoes are roasted
Baked potatoes are baked
Mashed potatoes are mashed
Boiled potatoes.... Sautéed potatoes...
I think you get my drift!

Oooh, you pedant...😁

Common as muck, me. I say baked potatoes. It describes how they are cooked not what they are wearing. You can describe an unpeeled boiled potato as a jacket potato, you cannot describe it as a baked potato.

Roast potatoes are roasted
Baked potatoes are baked
Mashed potatoes are mashed
Boiled potatoes.... Sautéed potatoes...
I think you get my drift!

Your friend has some comically weird ideas! Is she Hyacinth-ish in other ways?

I use both terms.

MaizieD

What would she call roasties, then? They're baked in the oven...

My mother called roast potatoes baked potatoes 😃

Spuds in their jackets? Only on Bonfire Night when I was young.

My dad called them jacket potatoes so we do.

We call them jacket spuds, must be really common then, 😂.

If splitting hairs roasties are actually cooked in fat. Therefore fried in the oven

What would she call roasties, then? They're baked in the oven...

What should the aforementioned potatoes be named if done in the air fryer

You are all totally wrong!

They are SPUDS not potatoes.

My mum always used to call them baked potatoes.
I call them jacket potatoes.

Baked

Grannynannywanny

mae13 I suspect your friend has a chip on her shoulder.

Brilliant!

Well never ever given this a thought.
Mine are Jackets but if I was told Baked at least I know what they area.

is the lagging to keep the heat in,
ie insulation.

Lashings not laggings - is that even a word?

I call them baked jacket potatoes😂😂 love them with lagging’s of butter and grated cheddar cheese.

I always thought it was the other way round and that Jacket potatoes is just a quick way of saying, ‘Potatoes, baked in their jackets.’

I knew a restaurant owner who told her staff that a Jacket potato was an American vulgarism and as she was known for only serving traditional English cuisine, only the word Baked should ever appear on the menu when referring to potatoes cooked in the oven!

Personally, I thought she was a bit half baked herself but there you go. 😂

Definitely jacket to me .... with butter cheese and tuna!

I tend to say jacket potato or potatoes in their jackets more than baked but always thought that's because I'm common, baked potato sounds posher to me.

My husband and I call them baked potatoes. Always have done.

mae13 I suspect your friend has a chip on her shoulder.

Callistemon21

I always dress mine in jackets

😂 I had a baked potato last night but didn't bother putting it's jacket on.