On 07/21/2014 11:45 AM, Drew Lawson wrote:
In article
Todd writes:
On 07/21/2014 01:04 AM, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 20/07/2014 6:21 PM, Todd wrote:
On 07/19/2014 03:28 PM, Higgs Boson wrote:
I bought some of those delicious tiny potatoes. Put them in veg bin
along with other potatoes -- small red. Went to nuke tinies today.
SPROUTING! If they're babies, why are they prematurely geriatric.


I always loved to see them sprout. Means they truly were organic.

No, sprouting does not mean that they are organic.


True. Just means they were not sprayed with anti-sprouting
agents. Also means they are still alive. And,
conventional producers usually spray their stuff.

It's been several years since I've gone through potatoes quickly.
Every bag of supermarket russets that I've bought in that time
(typically each Thanksgiving) has sprouted and started to grow.


Hi Drew,

Back where I could eat the things, I always loved to see
them sprout. I really can't figure out why the marketing
folks think folks would be offended by them. Maybe they
think we think they would be stale if they sprouted. I
would look for wilt for that.

When I lived in Germany, my landlord would buy a huge sack
of potatoes every fall, stick them in a special drawer in the
basement and eat on them all winter. By the end of the winter,
the drawer had sprouts growing out of it. Hysterical looking.

-T