Ready-made mashed potato in a tub is still disgusting

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It's true. I've just made some, just to try it.

I was greeted with this disgusting, thick, vile light green paste that's more useful for throwing about the place. Tasted it, and it doesn't taste anything like potato at all but very strongly of dodgy bits of onion.

Yuck, yuck, yuck!

Are you sure it wasn't actually guacamole?

No - actually it wasn't a dissimilar colour to puke. Ugh. Awful slop. Probably gets served up regularly in NHS hospitals up and down the country.

That sounds horrible. Considering that even homemade mashed potatoes are kind of nasty after they've been stored a day, I do not doubt you.

Green? Did you get those spuds from big box place? I only get mine from a small grocer and have been happy since.

Ever had Mr. Mash?



This is ready-made mashed potato, but it's flakes of 'potato' that require you to add a certain amount of water/milk and then let it sit for the flakes to absorb the fluid - this is not mashed potato by any stretch of the imagination, it tastes like what I'd imagine the water that's been used to boil potatoes might taste like and it's texture is like thin baby food. It comes in a box and normally found in very cheap food stores - seriously, cheap frozen food stores round here (aka scum-land) like Heron or Farmfoods won't even stock this stuff.

What's REALLY bad about Mr. Mash is the child on the back of the pack - really scary somewhat photoshopped little girl with uber freckles, uber ginger curly hair in bunches and mutant green eyes. Her image has brought about terror in many a grown man.

Who the hell decided that boiling potatos was so hard anyway?
Rhetorical question, as I'm sure I watched a documentary on the 'food revolution' of the 70's/80's that explained this mind-set.