Some kind of bacon, garlic, ranch or sour cream, green onion, butter, maybe even some hot sauce. Fill me up!

I do this sometimes with a big bowl of mashed potatoes. Its both 1) financially viable as I'm broke, and 2) a comfort food.

your co worker fears the spud

I don't know if this is a Midwestern thing or not, but the potato bar was always a time-honored tradition when I was coming up out there

Just bake up a whole mess of baked potatoes and then serve them with a lot of different fixin's

Always good eating

no but now i want that

my coworker acted like it was weird.

You should have told him it was artificially "bacon double cheeseburger" flavored.

Yes taters are great. I give them two thumbs up.

Yes, but no toppings other than salt and pepper.

Related story - a friend had crashed at my apartment and in the morning I offered to pick up bagels from the place down the street. He thanked me, and I came back a few minutes later, bearing the best goddamn bagels in California. He said, "Where's the cream cheese?" I said, "You didn't ask for cream cheese." He said that with bagels it's implied, because "otherwise it's just bread." I said, ". . . I don't see the problem here."

I have told this story to many people and not one of them has sided with me.

toppings are bourgeoisie decadence

Baked potatoes are great as leftovers but you gotta move fast because they go bad in a couple days. Simply bake an extra and the following day cube it up and fry it in a pan with some oil and seasonings. Get some crispy golden brown crust on there. Serve with eggs or beans or whatever else you like. Personally I recommend an omelet with mushrooms and onions and your favorite hot sauce.

I thought the "if they're really small" referred to the eater. was gonna say you're so real for that, but unfortunately, it's not real

I know some Russians, that even though they had become petite bourgeoisie, they would go out of their way to enjoy their old countryside way of living by burying some potatoes under the ground by an inch or so, building a nice campfire, then drinking themselves silly waiting for the fire to die down enough for them to push it around to dig out their potatoes then eat them as is while passing around a salt shaker and cussing about how hot the potatoes are when they bite into them.

Literally just a meal of beer or vodka and potatoes

Frequently.

Add some shredded cheese or whatever, some fresh chives (grow 90% of the year here), some bacon, and some water or oil for mouthfeel (based on calorie needs) and you’ve got a whole meal.

Potatoes are cheap and so filling. Passing on them as a meal is a mistake.

Baked potatoes for dinner is like the most normal thing in the world.

All the time haha, best food you can cook in a microwave

Normal lunch in germany

Yes, huge fan. Edit: had this all the time w my fam, we'd do a build your own spud, similar to how flakes says below. We call them jacket potatoes. Don't have them so much after moving out but it's a bloody easy meal.

Not nearly often enough, to be honest.

Also a baked onion is good.

Yes, especially if they're baked in some hot coals while wrapped in foil.

Lookup the dish kumpir.

I do this sometimes, just a baked potato and a slice of deli ham. My mum calls it "single girl dinner".

this is probably not news to you but twice-baked potatoes are incredible

I'll bake 5 or 10 pounds of potatoes at a time and eat them all week. Usually topped with chili, sometimes just cold and plain.