If you needed an excuse to order French fries for lunch, here ya go. Happy National Potato Day! It's always August 19th.
A new poll for it looked at the most popular homemade potato dishes. And it wasn't even close . . . MASHED potatoes are #1 by far.
The top four, in order, are: Mashed potatoes . . . potato salad . . . baked potatoes . . . and breakfast potatoes or hash browns.
They also looked at regional dishes that are more popular in certain parts of the country.
New England loves shepherd's pie . . . Mid-Atlantic states like Pennsylvania and New York love pierogis . . . breakfast potatoes are big along the rest of the East Coast . . . potato soup is popular in a lot of Southern states . . .
. . . the Midwest is making potato casseroles and potatoes au gratin . . . Texas and surrounding states eat the most potato salad . . . the Rocky Mountain states are keeping it simple with mashed potatoes and baked potatoes . . . and the West Coast loves potato tacos.
Age matters too. Gen Z is into potato tacos, but people over 65 don't eat them. Just 58% of Gen Z'ers say mashed potatoes are a favorite, compared to 73% of Boomers.
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