Potato Heaven

Since this blog has the word potatoes in the title, it's appropriate to report on my recent experience with nearly potato heaven.

We took our youngest son Jon to a casino for his recent birthday, a casino my wife and I had only been to three times before in the previous year, but one Jon had not yet experienced. Taking a break from our non-productive (and low-expenditure) gambling, we decided to have lunch in the buffet; after all, my wife had a free buffet, and we had discounts for the other two meals, so the cost was not bad.

But the food was even better. While the giant meatball I had was a bit dry, the almond chicken was great, as was most of the other food. And, for me, most of the other food consisted of potatoes.

Mashed potatoes. Twice-baked potatoes. Au-gratin potatoes. Red-skin potatoes. Hash browns. Mind you, most of my portions were sampler size, although I did go back for more mashed potatoes, and joked with my wife about covering them from the chocolate fountain at the dessert table. (For the record, I DIDN'T do that.....I'm not THAT weird.) I also passed on the mashed sweet potatoes, mainly because I don't like sweet potatoes and I'm not sure if mashed sweet potatoes officially counts as potatoes. (Like I said, I'm not THAT weird.)

After gambling later in the day, we stopped for a burger, and I forced myself to have a few french fries, now striving for my personal best potato day. Before the day was up I forced myself to have about three potato chips, just to up the ante.

The day could have been a little better had I had a better video poker experience as I had during my first two visits to this particular casino (first time I drew four deuces, and the second time I drew a non-wild card Royal Flush....neither making me rich, since I usually only play nickle video poker). But, hey, simple pleasures are the best, and what is a simpler, better pleasure than mashed potatoes....or seven kinds of potatoes in one day?!!?!?