When I was a youngster, living in some of the places that we did, it was very often hard, if not impossible, to get fresh fruit & veggies. So we lived on a lot of Deb and Surprise Peas (surprise all right) and IXL tinned fruit.
Now, I'm not knocking Deb. Fake mashed potato has its charms and it certainly has it place in remote communities, on girl guide camps and hiking in the Sierra Nevada (I never knew you could freeze-dry so many different types of food). But it does not belong on the table of your above-, below- or just average suburban home.
I see San Remo ignores this basic tenet of human dignity and is advertising a new range of potato side dishes. You can, allegedly, get buttery, creamy mash with herbs or with a touch of spice - all just by adding boiling water and no doubt stirring vigorously. Let's just call it what it is, folks: it's Deb with flavourings. With other flavourings, that is - aside from the all-natural potato flavouring.
If you can't be bothered taking whole minutes out of your life to peel, boil and mash a couple of spuds in the comfort of your own home, well then, old chum, I think it's time you opted out of the privileges of mixing with the rest of society all together.
Really. Wielding a masher is not too much to ask of my fellow human. Get to it.
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