POLL: Butter or Sour Cream?

By: Victoria Phillips
baked potato

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Food Stylist: Cyd McDowell Prop Stylist: Pam Morris

Photo by: Kana Okada ©Kana Okada 2011

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People are passionate about their baked potatoes, some like it with butter -- others sour cream. For many, there's no middle ground. You absolutely love one and vehemently loathe the other. Which side of the spectrum do you fall on?

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