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Potato Buds

Made with 100% real potatoes, just like home. And perfect for gluten-free diets.

UPDATED DIRECTIONS:
For the same great taste you know and love, milk should be added AFTER water and butter are brought to a boil. Following the old directions of combining all elements before boiling leads to mashed potatoes with a gummy texture.

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Raejeanowl said:	Posted: 3/30/2013 10:41 AM
Where oh where did the "buds" in "Potato Buds" go? Yeah, I noticed the last time I used them, when flakes instead of hard, little nuggets came pouring out of the box, but what really got my attention was the rubbery, pasty, tasteless GOO that resulted when I prepared them according to package directions! I might as well stick with the (now) better-tasting Idaho Spuds flakes.

andrea313 said:	Posted: 3/23/2013 10:35 AM
Your "new and improved" is "new and ruined"! Please return to the old product. You've lost a customer!

cmnt said:	Posted: 3/22/2013 9:57 PM
PLEASE bring back the original for those of us who would choose it first. Making a gluten-free product is fine, if it is a choice. Nothing compared to the old Potato Buds, and you had customers for life in my family. No more...until the original product returns.

AnnieKM said:	Posted: 3/2/2013 12:09 PM
These used to be my favorite instant potatoes by far, back when they were still buds. I tried several boxes of these thinking I must have gotten a bad batch but I had come to the ultimate conclusion that they are just bad. No amount of extra butter, salt or milk could improve the taste which I found to be amazing, and not in a good way. It's also disheartening to see nary a postive review over quite a long period of time with no apparent improvement to the product.

v3722 said:	Posted: 2/2/2013 8:18 AM
Let me add my displeasure with the new Potato Buds - Only good for grade school paste!!! And the 'explanation" of updated directions; be serious this is suppose to be a convenience product! I've toss out what is left and will go backwards 20 years to boil and mash potatoes again rather than use the "new" Potato Buds.

crei11744 said:	Posted: 1/18/2013 11:44 AM
The fact that you dare to call your "new" product Potato BUDS, I believe is a shocking case of false advertising. Last week I finished off a box of ORIGINAL Potato Buds I'd had for a while and last evening I opened a new box I just purchased earlier this week. I knew the minute I opened the box that what came out was a completely different product than what was in the old box I polished off last week. These are now FLAKES (not the crumbly looking BUDS of days gone buy). So the name of the product is now a big fat lie. But to be fair I gave them a try using the directions on the box, noting that it now called for more potato product (in relation to water) than the original directions, and the result was so inferior and didn't even come close to the fluffy potatoes from the original product. Had I been planning to serve this to company, I would have had to change my menu at the last moment because these were better suited for dry wall paste than human consumption. I have been buying your original Potato BUDS since forever and they were hands down the best alternative to mashing fresh potatoes, but no more. You have absolutely ruined the most outstanding mashed potato product on the market and you've lost another very loyal customer. I will also be returning the opened package to my supermarket for a refund. Perhaps if enough consumers do the same you'll get the message that putting an inferior product in falsely labeled packaging is not the way to keep long standing or generate new consumers.

hiroo said:	Posted: 1/14/2013 3:08 PM
Came here because I just opened up a new box of Potato Buds and was disappointed to find that they have changed the product from the crispy flakes we've loved for years to a powdery mess. My mom found the recipe on the side of the Potato Buds box years ago and since then my family has used the flakes as a panko-like coating for chicken and fish. We love those recipes and it has always impressed everybody when we bring it to parties. They also made great, firm mashed potatoes that nobody could tell weren't real potatoes, mashed. Betty Crocker: please change the product back to its original form!

candy66 said:	Posted: 12/20/2012 11:01 AM
I dont know why you changed the potaoe buds, they were so good before you added gluten free, I thought I was doing something wrong I asked my daughter what is she doing to make them taste so good, and she said they dont taste as good as they used to, I tried to put extra butter, milk and they tasted any better, I dont know why you had to change something that tasted like real potatoes i used to enjoy them, and my son loved them to, but know I dont think I will be buying them anymore, they taste auful

Tommy_J said:	Posted: 12/11/2012 2:38 PM
Betty Crocker must think we are all mindless idiots. Did they really think nobody would notice what they have done to their instant mashed potatos. They used to have the best instant mashed potatos I ever had....nice and fluffy. Now they have the consistency of GLUE or PASTE. This is no doubt an attempt to increase profits by dumbing down the product. I really resent this. If you think my hard earned money is going to be spent on an altered, inferior product think again. I am now in the process of trying other brands of instant mashed potatos. So Betty, say goodbye to a customer you had for 30 years

Pathos57 said:	Posted: 12/10/2012 12:32 PM
Wow, what a gloppy, dreadful product this is. We loved the original potato buds but this is SO not the same thing. I, like so many others here, wish you would go back to the former product &, if you feel it necessary, keep this paste as a separate product for the MINORITY of people that have difficulty with gluten. REALLY..calling this buds when it is clearly flakes is disingenuous.

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