On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:27:19 +0100, Kay wrote:

In article 1124864793.9be065849b6e7c577032d2d3a393c551@teran ews, Tim
Challenger writes
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:55:52 +0100, Nick Worley wrote:

"Gilly" wrote in message
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Does anyone know what variety of potato is likely to be the one you buy at
the supermarket - the normal everyday white potatoes in plastic bags for
about 90p or thereabouts for 2.5kg?

I know what you mean.
Very often in the supermarket I see potatoes labelled as "potatoes", but no
particular variety.
What does that mean? They must be some kind of variety, surely?
Nick

Do you require tomatoes, cucumbers and paprika to be labelled with the
variety?
I think it would be nice. But I'm not going to get my knickers in a twist
because of it.

Hmm ... what if apples weren't? Imagine getting a Golden Delicious when
you were expecting a Granny Smith? In practice it'd be OK, since they
all look different .... but then, so do potatoes.

I suppose it's a combination of 'how easy is it to tell the
difference?' and 'how different do they taste?'. Do the commercially
available cucumbers actually taste any different from each other? If
not, then why bother to label?

Quite.
How many varieties of cucumber *do* you get in the supermarket?
How can you tell?

Of course I'd like to see everything labelled with the variety, even if I'm
not terribly interested at the time.
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Tim C.