{"id":214,"date":"2010-08-29T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/?p=214"},"modified":"2010-08-30T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T07:07:24","slug":"stupid-microwavable-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/stupid-microwavable-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Microwavable Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\" href=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/stupid-microwavable-potatoes\/microwave-potatoes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-229\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 7px;\" title=\"microwave potatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/microwave-potatoes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/microwave-potatoes.png 186w, http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/microwave-potatoes-162x300.png 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>This is a genius advertising and packaging idea. \u00a0Among the 5# and 10# bags of potatoes my local grocer is now stocking a surprise, Microwavable Potatoes!<\/p>\n<p>These nice little packages were individually wrapped in plastic. \u00a0The potatoes were uniform in size and were presented with a nice label on each. \u00a0Based on the individual price, these potatoes per priced individually with a neat bar code on each. \u00a0I weighed a few of them and calculated that they were being sold for over $3.00 per pound. \u00a0In other words, it would cost over $30.00 for a 10# bag!<\/p>\n<p>An alternate to microwaving potatoes is BAKING your potatoes. See <a href=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/pork-steaks-with-potatos-black-eyed-peas-and-avacodo-salad\/\">This Post<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>The alternative to these Microwavable Potatoes is to buy a 3, 5 or 10 pound bag of potatoes or even buy bulk potatoes by the pound. If there is a difference between Microwavable Potatoes and Standard Russet Potatoes? I don&#8217;t think so, but if you do, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a genius advertising and packaging idea. \u00a0Among the 5# and 10# bags of potatoes my local grocer is now stocking a surprise, Microwavable Potatoes! These nice little packages were individually wrapped in plastic. \u00a0The potatoes were uniform in size and were presented with a nice label on each. \u00a0Based on the individual price, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}