• polarheart said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Mimikins - I'll go for the sweet potatoes please!!  Would you mind letting me have the recipe?? ((((((hugs)))))) Polar
   
  PS: Go to bed already!

• NotReallyAnonymousAJ said on Nov 18, 2007....

  I would say to serve both--but, if that isn't an option, that sweet potato casserole is the way to go!  Cracker Barrel makes one like this and serves it on Thursdays (I believe--though it's been awhile since I've had one), and it drives my taste buds wild!!!

• dailyachesandpains said on Nov 18, 2007....

  I'm going with the mashed momma Mimi!  LOL!  That's if I had to choose either.  A lot of people can't believe it when I tell them that I would rather them out of the box, than the "real" mashed potatoes!  Little D hates them too...that's my girl, lol!
  
  Daily
  

• MissMimi said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Yes, pcakes, I need to do that.  :)

  AJ, Yes, I've had what you're talking about.  Mmmmmm

  Daily!  Haven't seen you around in ages!  I used to hate mashed  potatoes.  The texture is so.... gluey sometimes.

  Polarcakes said go to bed...  Nighty night.

• NotReallyAnonymousAJ said on Nov 18, 2007....

  When I was very young, I didn't like mashed potatoes because of their lumpy texture.  The first mashed potatoes that I liked were some instant ones prepared by my grandma.
  
  These days, I love them prepared all ways.
  
  Patty (my best friend back when I didn't like mashed potatoes) couldn't get enough of them, and she was on her way to becoming fat because she ate so many--so her mom cut way down on fixing them so that Patty could lose the weight she'd put on before she got to the stage of being fat.
  
  Now, I loved mashed potatoes when they were kept the next day, patted out, rolled in flour, and fried.  I haven't had any of those in ages.
  

• lfbno7 said on Nov 18, 2007....

  What time should we all come over?

• silverwhisper said on Nov 18, 2007....

  personally, i'm biased towards mashed potatoes, myself. nutmeg, huh? not something i'd have considered putting in 'em but i'm kinda curious what that would be like--usually i'm looking for classically savory flavors in potatoes so this is something i never thought about before.
  
  ed

• quietone said on Nov 18, 2007....

  oh, sweet potatoes hands down here!  It is something that is more holiday style about them, guess cause we don't have them as often as white potatoes.  Your recipe for them sounds very good, have not had them like that before...with nuts. 

• Fallyn said on Nov 18, 2007....

  sweet potatoes....but i put toasted marshmallows on.
  
  actually in my family we always serve both.
  

• NotReallyAnonymousAJ said on Nov 18, 2007....

  We're going to be going to a favorite restaurant called The Red Brick Inn, and they make a super Thanksgiving dinner.  They include both mashed potatoes with gravy and sweet potatoes--along with turkey, dressing, peas, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls, and a tossed salad.  I don't think I've left anything out. 
  
  Coffee comes with it free if you want it.  I can't remember about iced tea, but I think it's free.  Pop costs something.  In all cases, the cups/glasses are bottomless.
  
  Pumpkin pie with whipped cream topping is extra--but *so* worth it!  The entire meal is reasonably-priced.
  
  Helpings are generous and absolutely delicious, and the place is fun.  Very relaxing and friendly atmosphere in a big, airy room with lots of picture windows..
  
  The place has been there forever in three incarnations.
  
  The original Red Brick Inn (built back in the 1920s or 1930s) was a roadhouse that ended up catching fire.  When it was rebuilt, it was rebuilt as a family restaurant.  In the early 1970s, it was replaced with the new building that is still home to it--and will, likely, remain home to it for years and years to come.
  
  It has always been a Mom & Pop operation.  The family currently owning it is the Goff family.
  

• botoni said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Both if I may have them please. A new to us trick around here is cooking some Hubbard squash and mixing it with the potatoes during mashing...........nummmy.

• Mr_Box said on Nov 18, 2007....

  We always serve both at our Thanksgiving. How can a person just choose one?

  If I had to, I guess I'd go with mashed potatoes. I like mixing those with the stuffing and turkey with gravy on top, and eating it altogether.

  Yum.

• MissMimi said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Hmmmmm.  That's what I was afraid of.  "Both" seems to be a popular answer. 
   
  I used to hate mashed potatoes.  The lumps did me in.  I'm not a huge fan of sweet potatoes either.  It wouldn't bother me to skip both, but the crowd expects at least one of them.

• NotReallyAnonymousAJ said on Nov 18, 2007....

  I love them both, but, like you, I wasn't a big fan of them at all as a kid.  I got to liking mashed potatoes before I did sweet potatoes, however.
  
  I can remember being in first grade, and there was this boy named Roger Cowgill in my class.  I think he was one of the best-looking boys in class, had great manners (as a whole), and was overall nice.
  
  However, I can remember one day when we had sweet potatoes.  I had already made up my mind long ago that I wanted no part of them, while Roger was so passionately into them that--in spite of his good manners--he seemed to manage not to get everything into his mouth, and the part outside of his mouth would drop back down onto his plate.
  
  To me, his mouth (which usually looked really good to me) took on a kind of butthole appearance with poop falling out of it.
  
  I thought I was going to throw up!
  

• gingersoul said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Mimi...no way...i can't choose...lol...

  I used to make both ......since we are living alone and my daughter doesn't like the sweet ones i stick only with the mashed ones.....i love them both....probably the mashed one more than the other ones...

  In Italy we dont make sweet potatotes in this way so it has been an aquired taste for me...and i dont like them to be too sweet though.....

  Ok, when i come over, lady?

• Zayda said on Nov 18, 2007....

  I say mashed potatoes. It's mashed potatoes for us because I'm really the only one who likes sweet potatoes, but I don't even like them in a casserole.

• evil_twin said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Mashed potatoes. I don't like sweet potatoes that much. I can definitely live without those. But I think I'm in a minority because everyone else seems to love them. I usually just pick the melted marshmallows off and eat those!
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• mobil said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Whatda mean no fence straddling? We have both, I guess we couldn't decide either, so we have both. C'mon Mimi, let your belt out a notch and have both haha.

• Eilan said on Nov 18, 2007....

  My mother-in-law serves both mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving.
  
  I like sweet potatoes, but I prefer mashed potatoes.
  
  On my side of the family, no one else likes sweet potatoes, so we don't have them.

• crybabylu said on Nov 18, 2007....

  no sweet potatoes for me please.

• the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Mashed potatoes - I haaaaaate sweet potatoes (or yams - whatever you want to do to them/call them, they're still gross!).
  
  ~Infernal
  

• kruuyai said on Nov 18, 2007....

  I Hate Mashed Potatoes!

• Alyss said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Mashed potatoes of both varieties are good but there's something particularly scrumptious about mashed sweet potato.

• lfbno7 said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Mashed potatoes started a long time ago. With a guy named Stompin' Joe.

• hinana said on Nov 18, 2007....

  mashed potatoes all the way.

  i dont like sweet potatoes...everyone else seems to love em..

  but since youve got people that like the sweet potatoes too, i suggest you do both, just maybe smaller portions?

• kelly said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Stove Top stuffing.

• destinydiva said on Nov 18, 2007....

  mashed potatoes :-) xx

• MissMimi said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Stove Top stuffing?  Blasphemer!  ;)

  We've worked out a compromise -- I'm doing mashed, SIL is bringing sweets. 

  Next year it's going to be at somebody else's house.

• destinydiva said on Nov 18, 2007....

  lol missmimi! ...next year...  :-) xx

• CreativeWoman said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Mashed potatoes for me.  I think sweet potatoes are icky.
  
  CW
  

• TinSoldier said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Every year of my life that we've celebrated Thanksgiving, we've had both. It's not really an either-or proposition because they are completely different dishes.
  
  And Thanksgiving is starch-heavy anyway, what, with the dressing and all.
  
  That being said, my wife (God bless her!) doesn't like sweet potatoes. But I make them anyway. Because it's tradition.
  

• Lioness said on Nov 18, 2007....

  I wouldn't mind having both.. hehe

• princessbitch65 said on Nov 18, 2007....

  This one is easy for me:

  SWEET POTATOES

  Nutritionally they are much better for you and like everyone else has said, you will already have a lot of starch stuff as it is. Sweet potatoes at least make you feel like you are eating something more healthy.

   Happy Thanksgiving!

• lioneljay said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Both, always. This year the only debate is whether or not to do mashed with a boursin cheese addition or one with cheddar cheese, or straight up normal with mostly butter and salt and pepper. We're also going to try a sweet potato casserole that we saw on the Food Network the other night.

• NotReallyAnonymousAJ said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Lioneljay--You're making my mouth water bigtime!!!

• PassionTraveler said on Nov 18, 2007....

  BOTH, but if I have to choose only one... MASHED POTATOES but with fresh chopped chives, minced garlic, loads of butter! (salt to taste).
  
  
  PT

• Zayda said on Nov 18, 2007....

  We are doing mashed potatoes with green onions and cheddar cheese. :)

• lioneljay said on Nov 18, 2007....

  Z, how do you think that gravy would taste on potatoes with cheddar cheese in them?
  
  
  

• Zayda said on Nov 18, 2007....

  LJ--I can't imagine that gravy would taste very good on potatoes with any kind of cheese in them. But in our house, the gravy goes on the stuffing and the turkey when we have mashed potatoes with cheddar cheese in them.

• kelly said on Nov 19, 2007....

  "Stove Top stuffing?  Blasphemer!  ;)"
  
  
  Actually, that was a joke.  :-)  Does anyone remember that commercial?

• MissMimi said on Nov 19, 2007....

  LJ, I actually made mashed potatoes with some onion and chive cream cheese a couple weeks ago, and served them with a pot roast.  The gravy tasted fine on them.  Now a strong cheese, eh, maybe not.  But a mild cheddar should be fine, I would think.

  Mmmmm Zee, green onions and cheddar...  yummy!

• Zayda said on Nov 19, 2007....

  Kelly--I remember that commercial. :)

• Mamie said on Nov 19, 2007....

  MASHED!!
  I understand the concept of the mashed sweet potatoes but I cannot do that color...it seems to close to baby -you =know= what! I cracked up at Kelly's stove top...yea I remember! hehe
  I also agree that we shalln't (shant?) cook next year if we are cooking this year...so I am thinking Ohio is not really all that far! Let's meet up with Rmuxie in Pittsburgh and let some top notch chef create our meal??!!
  Now that's Thanks....giving!!
  have a great holiday! best, mamie

• crybabylu said on Nov 23, 2007....

  So, what did you finally decide on, and how did it all go?........lol, dee

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