Potatoes Potátoes

What?! How can you mess up baked potatoes?
Let me tell you, friend, no failure is impossible.
Whether it be boiling water or frying an egg,
failure is always nearby, waiting to steal your foods

SO... my potatoes

When baking 30 potatoes, it is not ideal to bake them all at once.
In theory, they could be OK if your potatoes satisfy 2 conditions
(1) they are all of uniform size and shape and;
(2) they can somehow receive uniform heat in the oven

If these conditions are not met perfectly,
your potatoes won't be as delicious as hoped
A few might be of adequate deliciousness
but most will be the opposite of delicious

Fortunately for me, the potatoes were just a side for this meal
just the tuber portion of a pretty good ribeye dinner
followed by a delicious chocolate cake or cheesecake
then cigars and scotch to finish it all off

All in all, nobody remembered the bland potatoes
They were slightly to moderately undercooked potatoes.
And while I was rather disappointed and self-conscious
everyone just ate them as if they were delicious...

It made me wonder about the nature of failure
What is failure?
What is success?

Perhaps the failure of these potatoes were a success?
Maybe their lack of deliciousness and abundance of undercookedness
actually accentuated the wonderfulness of the rest of the meal
Like how opening bands make the real band seem even better.

Maybe our other failures (both baking and otherwise) help us know what is good
What is a delicious cake if you've never tasted a bad one?
What is a perfectly baked cookie if you've never burned/been burned?
What can be good without the countless failures it took to reach goodness?

Right?

Maybe?

Kinda?

*sigh* ... potatoes ... Oh well