Mashed potatoes w gravy or baked potato with butter and sour cream?

I've never been a mashed potatoes and gravy fan. If I'm having gravy, I prefer to have rice.

I like a good baked potato with butter, sour cream, green onions and, sometimes, bacon.

Baked all day

The dish matters but don’t sleep on fries.

I enjoy both but would rank mashed with no gravy slightly higher than baked.

Neither - twice baked/stuffed for me.

Mashed potatoes and gravy

Baked is my safe pick. Pretty much always good unless undercooked.

Mashed potatoes w gravy has many variables on whether it’s a good dish. Sometimes it’s fantastic, but sometimes it’s trash.

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Depends on main dish. Steak - baked potato. Meat cooked in gravy - mashed.

I like them both.

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Correct answer.

When I was a kid I hated mash potatoes, they made me gag whenever I was forced to eat them. Strange thing, I could eat the mashed potatoes in a Banquet TV dinner. But 60 years later, mashed potatoes are one of my favorites, especially with gravy. My wife won't eat mashed potatoes with anything other than butter. To each their own.

But I like almost any style potato: mashed, baked, scallop, au gratin, twice baked, fries, Brabant, etc...

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When I was a kid I hated mash potatoes, they made me gag whenever I was forced to eat them.

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I hated potatoes as a kid. To the point where my parents couldn't even shut me up with McDonalds fries, and when they tried to give me my first hash brown, I was like 4 years old calling out that it tasted like fries.

As I got older, I became more tolerant of potatoes, but still prefer them in a way that masks the starchy texture/flavor. Twice baked vs. plain baked. Seasoned fries with ketchup vs. plain potato-y fries. Even in "mashed", I like a soft-skinned mash with roasted garlic, butter, cheese, sour cream, etc. far more than a finely mashed russet type.

These days, we will even boil baby potatoes as a dinner side, but I prefer them tossed in a tangy mustard/vinegar type dressing over just plain boiled with salt.