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Anyone ever have a baked potato explode? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 106 points 1 year ago (9 children)

a catastrophic potato explosion

…or a bombe de terre, if you will.

[–] folkrav 32 points 1 year ago (5 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

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