Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

I'm common 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.

Me too !!

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

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?

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

I always dress mine in jackets

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 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?

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

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!!

Callistemon21

I always dress mine in jackets

A dinner jacket, of course!

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.

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!

Callistemon21

I always dress mine in jackets

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

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

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

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.

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

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. 😂

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

Lashings not laggings - is that even a word?

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

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