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Idle question. I've always heard that you need to prick the skins before baking a potato. The potential consequence for failure to do so is a catastrophic potato explosion.

Has anyone had this happen to them?

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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 100 points 9 months ago (4 children)

a catastrophic potato explosion

…or a bombe de terre, if you will.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

French speaker here: what makes it funny for me is it kind of sounds like someone trying to say “pomme de terre” with a stuffy nose

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was Germans who were humourless.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I literally said “what makes it funny for me”

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And then proceeded to explain the joke

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I don’t get it, sorry

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

That's what they we're going for, yea

[–] verdare@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago
[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

You deserve good things in life.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

What's "taters", precious?