I bought these to save time making Thanksgiving dinner. I checked the label to ascertain that they were in fact REAL potatoes. It says they are. I checked the label again after I cooked them... they taste like potato flakes. They were utterly flavorless and even after I added garlic salt, asiago cheese and tons of Kerrygold butter they still didn't taste as good as regular mashed potatoes. I ended up tossing the bulk of them into the trash :(

To say these were a disappointment is an understatement! If I could give them zero stars I would. I bought 2 separate packages a few months apart, just to be sure the 1st one wasn?t bad. Nope, they both were disgusting. I have bought other brands of prepared mashed potatoes like Bob Evans and Simply Potatoes that are surprisingly delicious and therefore had high hopes for these. They are extremely watery with lumps...reminded me of mixing wallpaper paste..a horrible texture. The taste...I can?t even describe it, Definitely not potato. Instant potatoes have a better taste then these. Both times I ended up throwing the packages away as no one in my family would eat them....a complete waste of $.

These gold mashed potatoes are OK. I bought them because we really like the Members Mark white mashed potatoes but they were not in stock. I won?t buy the gold again but not sorry that I did buy them. They don?t have a good flavor and aren?t as creamy as the white potatoes.

The brand from a few years back was great, as was the previous Member's Mark version, but it was only around for like a year before the reformulated it with this. These new potatoes are awful -- none of the great whipped texture or lightly seasoned flavor of the previous versions. These are yellow and taste like butter flavoring and potato flakes Please go back!

Tried these as an in store sample and they tasted great. A few weeks later I purchased them for New Year's Day dinner and the taste and consistency were much different than those sampled in the store. The ones purchased were very runny and tasted spoiled....actually tasted like vinegar which is not an ingredient. I expect it was a bad batch or perhaps the manufacturer didn't keep them refrigerated and they spoiled. (The use by date is two weeks from now, so definitely not due to them being old.) I will not purchase again and risk the same outcome.

I read reviews before purchasing, but was in a bind and needed premade mashed potatoes (along with other items). I took a chance and thought maybe it won't be that bad? I was wrong. Texture is fine, but taste is off. Sweet with a slight sour taste I couldn't pinpoint. Added salt, didn't help. Offputting flavor. Will never buy this brand again.

I bought this to use in a recipe I was making and didn't want to take time to make homemade mashed potatoes. I thought the product tasted good but it didn't beat my own and I felt like the amount of sodium is way to high for my family. If you're looking for a short cut and sodium isn't a concern, then buy it.

I purchased these last week. There are many hard black pea sized object in here. I am glad I was paying attention and did not bite into. I called the store I purchased from and nobody answers. That's nice.) I really wanted to speak to someone from where they came from.(AR West) I called the main office number there and was routed to Wal Mart customer support. They then gave me a number and said it was Sam's. I called and it was a marketing number that said that I had won a $100 gift card (To try to sell me something) That was not a Sam's number at all! I do not know what is in these potatoes, but it is disgusting. They are usually fine. No quality checks? To make a bad thing worse was trying to obtain some customer support. It is non existent. P.S. For some reason I cannot upload the picture to this review.

I use to love the other mashed potatoes that Sam's Club carried for years. I started buying Marks Mashed potatoes 3 years ago. I buy them twice a year for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. I let the convenience of prepared mashed potatoes after years of doing it myself. At first Marks Potatoes were thick and tasty and my family of 16 loved them. Each time I serve these; they get worse. They are so runny and have a sour aftertaste. Right now I am looking at a bowl of your potatoes and it looks like thick soup. I will not buy these again! I am thinking how in the heck can I serve these to my family for our special Christmas dinner.

I bought these via curbside pick up based on the photos and description. I have been buying it regularly because they were pretty good, but saw on the product packaging that they include a lot more than six ingredients. Time to update the photos and description for this product. Deceptive! Would have loved if this had only been six ingredients, but won't buy again.