{"id":42855,"date":"2025-11-13T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42855"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:01:14","slug":"why-i-queued-almost-24-hours-in-rainy-sheffield-for-a-jacket-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42855","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Why I queued almost 24 hours in rainy Sheffield for a jacket potato&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/d134\/live\/abd20eb0-bfed-11f0-99d4-1742bdf50d15.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"158\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Hundreds brave the rain in Sheffield for the opening of a potato-based social media sensation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gkdejdex1o\">&#8216;Why I queued almost 24 hours in rainy Sheffield for a jacket potato&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;jacket potato&#8221; = baked potato + fixings.  i recall when I stayed in London for a few days on trip back from India, seeing signs for &#8220;jacket potatos&#8221; everywhere.  had to ask and found out it&#8217;s just a baked potato with toppings.  here&#8217;s their menu; that UK9 = C$16.65 (base potato + chili) is a bit costy&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potato-menu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potato-menu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potato-menu.jpg 612w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potato-menu-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>apparently it&#8217;s spread to nz, too, although much cheaper&#8230; (NZ$9 = ~C$7.16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potatoes-menu.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potatoes-menu.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potatoes-menu.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potatoes-menu-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potatoes-menu-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potatoes-menu-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spud-hut-jacket-potatoes-menu-675x675.jpeg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds brave the rain in Sheffield for the opening of a potato-based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[489,482],"class_list":["post-42855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-england","tag-potato","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42859,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855\/revisions\/42859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}