Janet Baraclough wrote:
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:55:52 +0100, Nick Worley wrote:

"Gilly" wrote in message
...
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?

Tomatoes and peppers usually are, here, so are mushrooms
apples,
oranges pears and lettuce.

And, come to that, I've never noticed potatoes without an obvious,
or, at worst, discoverable varietal name in Tesco, Sainsbury's, or
Waitrose*. Could have happened, but I've never noticed.

*Is it just me, or is Waitrose a rip-off? It reminds me of Hyacinth
Bucket for some reason.

--
Mike.