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Re: How are your "SPUDS".
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Originally Posted by lettie
They just don't grow spuds like they used to.  |
They probably do and I think it has more to do with the treatment received to ensure that potatoes stay fresh for a given time.
The supermarket potato is always date coded and will last until that date but always start to "turn" by sprouting or going green immediately after the use by date.
Spuds of old could be made to last weeks even months by ensuring they were kept in the dark and farmers would literally bury them in the fields so that they would keep until the wholesale price increased even into the winter months but being kept in the dark seems to have no beneficial effect now.
I always give a chuckle when seeing the size of so called "Bakers" being sold in shops, 40 years ago, they would need to be at least double the size before being classed as such.
For those that live in a potato growing area, they have the option of Pick.Your.Own. (P.Y.O.) Farms and can literally follow the tractor and select each individual tuber straight from the ground. The farmer saves labour costs and the customers get veg as good as in the 60's!
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