As a child, one of my favorite foods was mashed potato. My mom would prepare a mashed potato dish every time she cooked steak. I enjoyed helping her make mashed potatoes by peeling the raw potatoes and mashing them after she had boiled them. I could never forget the fantastic, soft taste of the homemade mashed potatoes. At that time, I did not know of any “fake mashed potatoes.”
About a couple months ago, I noticed something from a grocery store that caught my attention. It was instant mashed potato powders in small packages. It had many flavors to it too, such as cheddar cheese, garlic and herb, or lightly salted. With curiosity, I bought one of the packages and decided to try the “new mashed potato.” The procedure was surprisingly simple. All I had to do was to boil a certain amount of water, pour in the mashed potato powder, mix it well, and wait for it to cool down. It only took me approximately 3 minutes to make! The instant mashed potato’s easy procedure and short preparation time was much to my convenience compared to the homemade mashed potato. Because it was so convenient to make, I began to prefer the “fake mashed potato” over the real mashed potato.
The visual aspect of an uncooked fake potato and an uncooked real potato is very different. While the fake potato looks like a clump of dry powders, the real potato appears as a 3-dimentional oval shape. When cooked however, the fake mashed potato looks identical to the real mashed potato. They even smell somewhat similar to the real mashed potatoes, if flavors are ignored. But, the fake mashed potato cannot beat the real mashed potato in taste. Fake mashed potato does not have a deep taste of potatoes and tastes diluted at times. The fake mashed potatoes also lack some nutrients that real mashed potato possesses, such as vitamin D.
In the future, I will attempt to make more “real mashed potato” than “fake potato,” but I cannot guarantee myself that I will always cook real mashed potato. This is because it takes too much time and effort to make the real mashed potato. As a busy college student, it would be difficult for me to spare the time and effort into making mashed potato. I have to admit though, that the option of fake foods surely has made me lazier.
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