Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

I always do three more potatoes when having baked. They go in with the leeks to make soup the next day. Makes a big difference: in a good way!

when i was young, potatoes used to be boiled in their skins, and put on the table, or taken from the saucepan by each eater, with a fork, and then deftly peeled with the knife.
these were called potatoes in their jackets.

Callistemon21

I always dress mine in jackets

A dinner jacket, of course!

Oooh! Love a baked spud! I had one just last weekend with loads of grated cheese, coleslaw and butter! Does that make me common?? I really don't give two hoots and after I had eaten the fillings I ate the skins..........there wasn't a jacket, anorak, overcoat or blazer in sight

Seriously, mae13, your friend is nothing but a snob, she must be a very sad individual to berate you for calling them BAKED!!

I'm common as well we had baked potatoes yesterday They are called baking potatoes on the bag not jacketing potatoes.

I don't think your friend is a pedant, mae13, she's just a snob!

We're talking about potatoes cooked in an oven with their skins on. Who cares what they're called?

Description of baked potato is what it actually is. I have yet to see a potato dressed in a jacket but the mind can easily boggle at this. Picturing mine in velvet with gold buttons.

I always dress mine in jackets

I’m common too. I had baked potatoes yesterday.

What a strange thing to feel superior about. We always called them lid potatoes after coming across this term in a Milly Molly Mandy book. I wonder what label that gives us?

Plenty of 'baked' potato shops around who would disagree that they're common, I'm sure!

Me too !!

BBC Good Food has a recipe for BAKED potatoes. So I would say it's perfectly correct to use the word, baked. Nothing 'common' about it.

I'm common too!