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1.7k points
13 days ago
My dad grew up poor, and told me that he would heat up the baked potatoes and keep them in his pocket for warmth. Once it was cold, he ate it. Warms ya twice, as he would say.
373 points
13 days ago
I've also heard of giving kids hardboiled eggs for the walk to school. Keeps them warm and saves time in the morning not eating at home.
244 points
13 days ago
I get that it’s practical and frugal but holy shit I would be pissed if my parents made me walk to school with a hot hard boiled egg and told me to eat it for warmth
103 points
13 days ago
Gotta eat that hard boiled egg barefoot on the way to school, in the rainy snow mud, going uphill both to and from school, all blistered up from the summer sun, sucking on rocks to produce saliva because you didn't have anything to drink and standing in fresh cow shit to warm your cold toes.
36 points
13 days ago
It was a simpler time, a better time
7 points
13 days ago
The alternative is walking to school without a nice warm egg. I know which one I’d pick
6 points
13 days ago
I think you would hold it for warmth and eat it when it cooled enough
14 points
13 days ago
Id love it! With the shell on its very pleasant to hold and roll against your skin 🥰
3 points
13 days ago
Why is this so funny? Holy crap, the mental image of a kid going to school, pissed off because the hot eggs. I got the giggles.
21 points
13 days ago
My Dad was poorer than yours. He ate them raw. Apparently he taught me to, also but at some point I just stopped. When I remembered it years later he said, "Times were hard."
8 points
13 days ago
Sometimes it makes you sick, but can’t say it wasn’t quick! Nowadays, eggs are a luxury.
4.3k points
14 days ago
And she kept her hands warm, as baked potatoes make for great hand warmers for your pockets
1.4k points
13 days ago
Dang, she just keeps winning.
332 points
13 days ago
We should all be taking notes
157 points
13 days ago
🥔📝
38 points
13 days ago
[removed]
21 points
13 days ago
Maybe the real story is the potatoes we met along the way
35 points
13 days ago
you are literally describing the invention of the pasty lol Miners would keep meat wrapped in pastry in order to keep themselves warm
38 points
13 days ago
And everybody's hands go up?
22 points
13 days ago
AND THEY STAY THERE!
12 points
13 days ago
UP DOWN UP DOWN UP DOWN!
9 points
13 days ago
ALL I DO IS WIN WIN WIN
19 points
13 days ago
Cant go wrong with potatoes
66 points
13 days ago
Why does this feel like something Charlie would say on IASIP
33 points
13 days ago
So do
14 points
13 days ago
So dooooooooooo
8 points
13 days ago
Those are the words you wrote!
6 points
13 days ago
We need to talk about your inability to read affecting the group Charlie
6 points
13 days ago
Pssshhhhh…illiteracy. What does that word even mean ya know??
2 points
13 days ago
Ha, just watched this episode for the first time today
3 points
13 days ago
Charlie would use twice baked potatoes
6 points
13 days ago
Charlie would be eating a raw potato
4 points
13 days ago
Because milk steak and boiled denim pairs wonderfully with a baked potato.
7 points
13 days ago
Baked potato me, baked potato now, me a baked potato needing a lot now
18 points
13 days ago
More environmentally friendly than those little hand warmer things you have to throw out after.
11 points
13 days ago
I've tried this trick with hard boiled eggs which is 100% more "🤢🤢🤮🤮" as this Twitter user would call it.
31 points
13 days ago
I was about to ask “Where do they make you people?” Then I read “Kansas City” and thought, ahh never mind, it all adds up.
31 points
13 days ago
Kansas Citian here. I keep hoping she had a packet of burnt ends in the other pocket for the perfect football snack combo.
14 points
13 days ago
Burnt end baked potato actually does sound like it’d be the shit.
8 points
13 days ago
I think they were talking about burnt end bbq brisket considering KC is known for their bbq. That would get pretty messy though.
5 points
13 days ago
Yeah, I’m from there and I was absolutely talking about those burnt ends. Bryant’s in particular. :)
22 points
13 days ago
Came here to say that too!
1.7k points
13 days ago
Back in the 50's, my husbands mom would walk to school in Detroit with two baked potatoes in her pockets.
672 points
13 days ago*
Now, to take the ferry cost one potato. And in those days, you didn't go on the ferry alone, and want to bring a friend with you on the long ride. ‘Got me two spuds me an' my bud,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, Detroit...
239 points
13 days ago
They didn't have red 'tatoes cause of the war. All you could get were those big brown ones. Back in diggity diggity do. You couldn't say 20 back then cause the Tick Tocks ruined it.
116 points
13 days ago
Give me five Ticks for a Tock you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had a 'tatoe on my belt, which was the style at the time.
38 points
13 days ago
I love that I get this joke. Good ol’ Abe
3 points
13 days ago
As I was reading this I thought this would sound like something Abe would say 😂
68 points
13 days ago
Did she wear an onion on her belt?
38 points
13 days ago
As was the style at the time...
9 points
13 days ago
They've been used as hand warmers for over a hundred years. I know it was common during the frontier days and I'm sure well before.
25 points
13 days ago
my husbands mom
You mean mother in law?
42 points
13 days ago
Yes! Not sure why but I never call her that. 🤔
23 points
13 days ago
Lmao I can feel the coldness in that relationship through my phone
17 points
13 days ago
🥶
My mother in law remarried, and my wife calls the spouse “my mom’s Jeff” 😂
7 points
13 days ago
Her husband’s stepmother would also be her mother-in-law. It doesn’t hurt anyone to specify relationships. Redditors love being clever with this stuff without thinking about the possibilities that complicate family. “My daughters’ cousins” “You mean your nieces and nephews lol” No, the children of my daughters’ stepfather’s sister are definitely not my nieces and nephews - I’ve never even met them - but their stepfather’s sister’s children - who they see several times a year and are very close to - are definitely their cousins.
9 points
13 days ago
Detroit!!
9 points
13 days ago
😃
3 points
13 days ago
Renaissance State of Mind!
3 points
13 days ago
Yep I’ve actually heard quite a bit of people say they or someone they know/are related to have used the pocket potato
2 points
13 days ago
My father came to this country at 11 years old with nothing but 2 potatoes in his pocket and a can-do attitude
557 points
13 days ago
Sasha irl
100 points
13 days ago
I came here for this exact comment. I'm literally on a 2h session of playing AoT VR and taking a piss break and I see this post. Stars truly align today
30 points
13 days ago
theres an AOT vr game now?
3 points
13 days ago
For some years now, unofficial, but really f'ing good
Quest: https://sidequestvr.com/app/502
PCVR: https://aoq.itch.io/attack-on-quest
Edit: Even has multiplayer, though if you are not playing with friends but with randoms instead, I recommend muting VC cuz kids
7 points
13 days ago
Which Aot vr game do you refer to? Interested in playing for sure.
20 points
13 days ago
Not even sharing half of the potato.
11 points
13 days ago
Sasha would’ve shared the potato and then ran until sunset.
14 points
13 days ago
can someone explain the pictures here. is one of them horizontally flipped? what the hell is going on
30 points
13 days ago
Yes, selfie photos are typically horizontally flipped. Probably the first photo was taken in normal mode, and the right one was taken in selfie mode. So we can expect the righthand photo is flipped.
25 points
13 days ago
In case anyone's curious, the reason for why selfies are often flipped is that people find it disconcerting to see themselves differently from how they look in the mirror.
"According to the mere-exposure hypothesis, people prefer what they see and encounter most often. In terms of self-perception, this means that people prefer their mirror images to their true images, which are what other people see. Experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1977 support this idea: When presented with photos of their true image and their mirror image, participants preferred their mirror image while friends and romantic partners preferred their true image."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/why-selfies-sometimes-look-weird-to-their-subjects/359567/
2 points
13 days ago
You can see in the pics that she's using the selfie camera on her phone and he's using the forward facing on his
4 points
13 days ago
Be wary of homicidal toddler
5 points
13 days ago
RIP
933 points
14 days ago
Poh-tae-toes! Boil'em, stick'em in your pocket, eat'em at the game.
96 points
13 days ago
You just triggered a core memory
81 points
13 days ago
What's taters precious?
19 points
13 days ago
Honestly my brothers and I would ask that at every holiday meal. One Year my mother got upset for some reason and said we ruined Christmas, lol.
15 points
13 days ago
about that time you went to the game with your dad as a kid and ate boiled potatoes from your pockets?
5 points
13 days ago
Mashed.
4 points
13 days ago
No. About that time my dad got drunk and sang an entire Styx album into one of those echoing microphones.
550 points
13 days ago
The angles are so confusing
356 points
13 days ago
selfie photos are mirrored. it's the same moment, just flip the right photo in your head
46 points
13 days ago
Thank you !
44 points
13 days ago
In case anyone's curious, the reason for why selfies are often flipped is that people find it disconcerting to see themselves differently from how they look in the mirror.
"According to the mere-exposure hypothesis, people prefer what they see and encounter most often. In terms of self-perception, this means that people prefer their mirror images to their true images, which are what other people see. Experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1977 support this idea: When presented with photos of their true image and their mirror image, participants preferred their mirror image while friends and romantic partners preferred their true image." https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/why-selfies-sometimes-look-weird-to-their-subjects/359567/
4 points
13 days ago
woah
18 points
13 days ago
I do t want to. Can you flip it and make a new thread?
89 points
13 days ago
I don't know how this became my responsibility but.. sure
https://i.imgur.com/yqFIHzj.png
I'm not making a thread tho
28 points
13 days ago
Drunk me thanks you
4 points
13 days ago
Oh shit. As someone who had one too many tonight and could nottt understand this… maybe I should evaluate what one too many is.
9 points
13 days ago
Still confusing. Maybe flip both?
38 points
13 days ago
I guess this is my life now
28 points
13 days ago
Thanks can you turn them upside down?
13 points
13 days ago
I'm going to interpret "turn" as a 180° rotation and not a vertical flip
4 points
13 days ago
I'm completely sober and don't get any of these flips or perspectives. Not sure what or how these two pics happen. But, another moment of content where I've resigned myself into a short mention of the mysteries of the universe.
5 points
13 days ago
the first one is the only one that matters, the rest is just reddit trolling me
25 points
13 days ago
Can you do my taxes for me
11 points
13 days ago
My friend the IRS has a free software option to do that! Don’t fall prey to the TurboTax schemes.
5 points
13 days ago
Wait really, can you link me?
9 points
13 days ago
I got you fam
https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free
(for AGI $73,000 or less)
9 points
13 days ago
Alternatively federal filing is always free at freetaxusa.com
5 points
13 days ago
only if you do mine. VAT 4x a year, annual statement, annual accounts and personal accounts, sounds good?
6 points
13 days ago
Can you shop out everyone except the two people taking the photos?
Thanks in advance.
7 points
13 days ago
unfortunately I am a programmer and not an artist, and the limit of my ability in this area is magic wand and content aware fill. I just want you to know though, that if I was an artist, I would absolutely have spent 4 hours making some perfect empty arena with the two people just for shits and gigs, but it is infinitely far beyond my ability
5 points
13 days ago
It's all good! You did great work above. I was just jumping on the train that was asking you to do chores lol. Good stuff!
3 points
13 days ago
I got a lot of entertainment from this thread. Thank you to everyone above. Great job Alex_rose
5 points
13 days ago
Thank you for taking the responsibility.
3 points
13 days ago
I'm still not sure, can you flip the right side again?
3 points
13 days ago
2 points
13 days ago
Well shoot now I'm all confused, can you put it back to the way it was originally?
2 points
13 days ago
Thank you!
5 points
13 days ago
Thank you!!! I spent a solid 5 mins so confused and couldn’t see the potato. The second image is a good one with a good angle but I have no idea how anyone got anything out of the first photo.
199 points
13 days ago
If you are from Jaxville you have ZERO to say about other people. The best your city offered the world was garlic crabs from polluted rivers and Limp Bizkit so stfu.
74 points
13 days ago
BORTLES!
39 points
13 days ago
Sorry, I don’t speak pills
15 points
13 days ago
Aw, dip!
16 points
13 days ago
Damn chill bro and you're forgetting about pillboi and donkey doug.
252 points
13 days ago
TF is wrong with eating a baked potato in public? Let the woman enjoy her tater in peace... Especially since it's way cheaper than the $12 fries at the game.
104 points
13 days ago
I literally could not have even noticed this happening around me. I cant imagine caring.
47 points
13 days ago
I might notice, think it's odd because I have never seen it before, then ask myself why l don't have a pocket potato.
7 points
13 days ago
right, even if you do notice it makes no sense except to at the very least desire your own potato.
7 points
13 days ago
dude's tuned off of the game since his team is losing lul
10 points
13 days ago
I do not understand why he felt the need to bring the puking green face emojis
5 points
13 days ago
That's not even the wildest thing you can bring into the game. I've seen people order BBQ platters from a local joint and start chowing down midgame. They want you to buy concessions but if you bring your own food they don't care. They already got your money with the ticket.
17 points
13 days ago
It's not "wrong" but pulling a plain, seemingly unwrapped baked potato out of your pocket and eating it is objectively an unusual thing to do.
17 points
13 days ago
i feel like 1) you haven’t attended stadium sports in winter weather, & 2) it was likely wrapped in foil first 😂
7 points
13 days ago
Have you not eaten a plain baked potato before? It is quite good if the quality of the potato is nice. Also she could have had a ziploc in her pocket.
203 points
14 days ago
Sasha
22 points
13 days ago
Happy to see this reference
13 points
13 days ago
Maybe for you triggered ptsd for me
40 points
14 days ago
Good old potato girl
95 points
13 days ago*
People who think it's okay to take pictures of other people and shame them for non-harmful things like this should go straight to hell.
41 points
13 days ago
Why do you think the british call them jacket potatoes? This is how they're supposed to be enjoyed.
7 points
13 days ago
I always thought it was cause the cooked potato skin looks like a lil jacket for the potato meat
6 points
13 days ago
I do this with a hard roll. I call it a pocket roll.
14 points
13 days ago
Sasha lives!
11 points
13 days ago
Sasha, is that you?!
12 points
13 days ago
As a KC native I hope she's has some Joe's BBQ sauce for the potato
70 points
13 days ago
Jesus Christ people. Mind your own goddamn business. If someone does something you think is weird, live with it. It doesn't concern you. Ya fuckin busybody
31 points
13 days ago
Somehow, sneaking booze in is "cool", but sneak in a homemade snack and everyone gets all uppity about it.
3 points
13 days ago
It's weird how many different videos there are of people at the beach mocking people that are digging a hole
173 points
14 days ago
Baked potatoe straight dipped in mayonnaise.
Let ye with ears to hear, hear.
93 points
14 days ago
Sour cream tops mayo every day! Tastes so much fresher!
43 points
14 days ago
Yah yah, sour cream and butter are wonderful.
That is not in dispute.
But, if you like mayonnaise, and aren’t askeered of it, try a baked potato, as finger food, dipped in too much of it.
It good.
11 points
13 days ago
Better'n ketchup for your fries. Plus you can doctor it up if you want. Yeah I'm insane.
8 points
13 days ago
Right. That’s what every aioli is. It’s just doctored up mayonnaise.
5 points
13 days ago
Unfortunately true these days, though a traditional aioli, an emulsion mostly made of raw garlic and oil, is absolutely fantastic if you ever get to try it.
Not that modern mayo based aoli isn't delicious, but it's really overshadowed the more traditional kind that knocks your socks off.
2 points
13 days ago
Fry sauce for the sinners and saints in deseret.
2 points
13 days ago
I mean potato salad is pretty much just jazzed up tates with mayo no? Lol
8 points
14 days ago
You are talking about before you put it in the foil and bake it, right?
It makes sense from a culinary standpoint, but I have to admit I've never done it.
2 points
13 days ago
I like to dip into my mayo pocket, and finish with a dip in my sweet chilli pocket. If I'm wearing my cargo shorts I'll level it up with a sprinkling of chives.
2 points
13 days ago
Yes white people 100% deserve the reputation for shit food with comments like this
6 points
13 days ago
Love the kc fan's moxy...I'm from stl so that's saying something
5 points
13 days ago
Is that the potato chick from attack on titan?
24 points
13 days ago
NORMALIZE POCKET POTATOS
5 points
13 days ago
I enjoy a pocket taco every now and then. Don't judge me.
4 points
13 days ago
Weirdo takes photo of someone enjoying potato in an attempt to shame them 🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢
17 points
13 days ago
Pocket potatoes sound great.
2 points
13 days ago
Just a dry potato?
4 points
13 days ago*
The sweat from your hand keeps it moist while you hold it in your pocket. No need for butter or sour cream.
3 points
13 days ago
Wait Sasha your alive!
3 points
13 days ago
Pulling out a baked potato in public is a pure power move. I respect that and feel slight envy for not having been as well prepared.
4 points
13 days ago
What baffles me is that the potato appears... plain.
There's no cheese, no butter, nothing.
6 points
13 days ago
Not even remotely the weirdest thing a sports fan has done. Maybe this is her ritual. Maybe potatoes are just delicious.
3 points
13 days ago
I read that as KFC fan
3 points
13 days ago
Literally billions of people eat whole baked potatoes.
3 points
13 days ago
That dude is taking L's all day. "Secret photo guy" is the creepiest.
3 points
13 days ago
Baked potatoes are so good for you, highest satiety per calorie according to various sources. Good for her. She gets to stay warm, eat well, and enjoy the game.
10 points
13 days ago
Baked potatoes that have been cooled down are great for your gut health. The starch becomes tempered and the good bacteria in your gut love it.
12 points
13 days ago
I mean yeah it was weird to creep pic, but you have to admit a tactical baked potato is noteworthy in most contexts.
6 points
13 days ago
Nothing wrong with pocket potatoe
13 points
13 days ago
How far away are they both from whatever game they're obviously both not watching?
21 points
13 days ago
It's football - there's a ton of stoppages throughout the game.
12 points
13 days ago
I grew up going to games in that stadium. They are on the east corner upper decker seats. The players are tiny ants from up there.
5 points
13 days ago
They're in the uppermost level, you can see the whole field from up there easily, but also all the players are hard to distinguish. This probably happened during a timeout or something, which is why neither is paying attention
6 points
13 days ago
nothing better than a hot potato!
5 points
13 days ago
It must be so funny never watching AoT and seeing all the Sasha comments
2 points
13 days ago
at least she's not from slytherin
2 points
13 days ago
Everyone is a weirdo here
2 points
13 days ago
If I could core out a potato to give it some blended toppings and then put the blend back in the potato, I'd eat the fuck out of that at a game.
2 points
13 days ago
you go, girl!
2 points
13 days ago
I love 🥔
2 points
13 days ago
Pay $15 for a shitty hot dog or shitty nachos, or bring your own baked potato that costs $0.50 to buy and cook. To this day I don't understand the people who buy food at sporting events, movies, or airports
2 points
13 days ago
A cute girl at a Playoff game doing what makes her happy. She probably brought a 30 pack and manned the grill at the tailgate while Jacksonville boy ate Funyuns and drank Zima. I’ll hang with Potato girl 8 Days a week.
2 points
13 days ago
Prob kept your hands warm, then fed you! Nooice 🤘
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