Smash
A while back I tried cooking with Smash (instant mashed potato) at home, and I actually liked it better than normal mashed potato. Alex, independently and unknowingly, asked me what I'd done differently with the mash because it was so nice. So now I use it all the time, because it's both quicker and nicer.
Yesterday I was cooking for the student supper at church. I made cottage pie, using Smash, because I like it, and because it beats peeling and mashing potatoes for 80 people. E and N, a couple a few years younger than me, came past and saw the Smash, and looked utterly disgusted and horrified, like they might do if they'd seen me chopping up rats to put in the pie. It wasn't a brief look of disgust quickly followed by an expression of polite neutrality; it was an expression of disgust which continued and deepened as though they were waiting in vain for me to shout "Kidding!" and hold up the real potatoes.
Poll Smash
Yesterday I was cooking for the student supper at church. I made cottage pie, using Smash, because I like it, and because it beats peeling and mashing potatoes for 80 people. E and N, a couple a few years younger than me, came past and saw the Smash, and looked utterly disgusted and horrified, like they might do if they'd seen me chopping up rats to put in the pie. It wasn't a brief look of disgust quickly followed by an expression of polite neutrality; it was an expression of disgust which continued and deepened as though they were waiting in vain for me to shout "Kidding!" and hold up the real potatoes.
Poll Smash