On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:07:29 +0100, "Brian"
wrote:

While in the Canary Isles I was a little surprised to see that the farmers
always used 'Certified Scottish' for planting~~as of course we do.

and us, but we do our own imports :-)

They cooked the potatoes in either seawater or dry salt! They were
delicious ~especially the latter.
They also grew a variety that was exceptionally expensive and never larger
than a walnut. Seemed to be about £2 a lb.

We had "real Canary" soup, in Lanzarote. The soup was bright yellow
and tasted of seawater. Of all the places I've been, the food in
Lanzarote was the worst.