Potato Flakes

[pmcd9]

I've acquired a gallon carton of instant mashed potato flakes.  I'm not really an instant mashed potato guy too often.  When I make mashed potatoes I usually use actualpotatoes.

Anyway, I've got this gallon of product and I don't want it to go to waste so I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions on how these flakes can be repurposed?  What kind of fancy chow can be made with instant potato flakes?

[wombat]

I got a recipe from AlohaDawg back in the day where you use potato flakes to coat giraffe, instead of like bread crumbs or cornmeal or something. Dip a giraffe fillet in some seasoned buttermilk, dip it in potato flakes, pan fry. 

I never used potato flakes before in my life, but now we make this all the time.

[jay-ell]

I got a recipe from AlohaDawg back in the day where you use potato flakes to coat giraffe, instead of like bread crumbs or cornmeal or something. Dip a giraffe fillet in some seasoned buttermilk, dip it in potato flakes, pan fry. 

I never used potato flakes before in my life, but now we make this all the time.

Also: chicken. (I think "also chicken" is kind of like "tomorrow chicken," but it doesn't take nearly as long to cook.)

[pmcd9]

I just happen to have some fillets that I can use for this purpose.

[side_show]

My first thought was that you should donate them to a food bank.  Mashed potatoes are a hot commodity in such locals.

[pmcd9]

My first thought was that you should donate them to a food bank.  Mashed potatoes are a hot commodity in such locals.

That was a thought, but the carton is open and the food shelters won't take an open container.

[greenkoolayd]

you can use them to thicken soups and sauces.  theyre bland enough that they wont affect any other flavors much.

[Drygioni]

Make potato bread!

[greenkoolayd]

Make potato bread!

that too.

[littlefallsmets]

Try and pass them off as breakfast cereal as a prank!

[side_show]

That was a thought, but the carton is open and the food shelters won't take an open container.

This is true.

Fun side story:  when running the food bank, I noticed some of the volunteers were passing around a can and talking with concern.  I went over and asked what the problem was "There's something wrong with this can."  "It feels empty" they tell me.  I take the can, and sure enough it is a can of "Irish Stew" but it feels light as a feather, I read the label, which describes the meaty stew, with peas and carrots and notice that there is no traditional "nutrition facts" label, and continue to examine it.  In tiny print at the bottom of the can just below the logo, where you could easily miss it, it says "food for dogs."  One of the older volunteers couldn't even read the "food for dogs" part.  No where else on the can was there an image of a dog, or any indication that it was pet food.  We were all pretty aghast that we could have handed this can out to some in need of food.  Yikes.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Halfway through that story, I was expecting it to be "So I twisted it open, and springy snakes flew out and scared the crap out of me."

[Asherdan]

Halfway through that story...

I was expecting a totally different kind of Irish "Stew".

[arkabee]

dump the box into someone's hot tub.

someone you do not like.

at all.

[theinevitable]

sometimes at the grocery store when people are buying cat food I have this nightmare image of them eating it.

...which, you know, is pretty possible.