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Potato Variety
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? Thanks. |
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:16:29 GMT, "Gilly" wrote:
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? Most supermarket potato packs have the variety printed on them. Pam in Bristol |
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:16:29 GMT, "Gilly" wrote:
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? Estima and Nadine seem to be quite common round here, but many others show up from time to time, even Marris Piper has been seen in Lidl, but normally those are found in more expensive bags. I agree with Pam, it should be marked on the prepack bag. But you have to look close sometimes ! In fact, I think I remember reading that it is a (new fangled?) regulation or statute that the bags must be so marked. Where that leaves the small trader who bags up a few for customer convenience I don't know. |
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:53:46 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
(WaltA) contains these words: In fact, I think I remember reading that it is a (new fangled?) regulation or statute that the bags must be so marked. Where that leaves the small trader who bags up a few for customer convenience I don't know. /spuds/ I think they'd be OK - there's usually an allowance for small traders - unless they weigh in avoirdupois... Your faith in our rulers, masters and betters is commendable, however, such was not the case when the EU ( or was it the EEC then?) decided upon a permitted list of seeds that may be sold. Which resulted in the HDRA Heritage, and other, seed swap schemes. Dr Jeremy Cherfas, once of that institution, had much to say about the incompetents in the EU ! I think that that has now been rectified though ( I'm out of touch with the current situation regarding the EU maintained seed list) Whilst not ruling out your assumption, I would not be surprised to learn of another snafu |
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I think that that has now been rectified though ( I'm out of touch with the current situation regarding the EU maintained seed list) Re-worded : I think that that has now been rectified, somewhat late, for small and specialist traders. |
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WaltA wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:53:46 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: (WaltA) contains these words: In fact, I think I remember reading that it is a (new fangled?) regulation or statute that the bags must be so marked. Where that leaves the small trader who bags up a few for customer convenience I don't know. /spuds/ I think they'd be OK - there's usually an allowance for small traders - unless they weigh in avoirdupois... Your faith in our rulers, masters and betters is commendable, however, such was not the case when the EU ( or was it the EEC then?) decided upon a permitted list of seeds that may be sold. Which resulted in the HDRA Heritage, and other, seed swap schemes. [...] But I can't easily imagine any small greengrocer at any normal time who couldn't tell you what variety of spuds he was selling. It'd be on the sack, anyhow. -- Mike. |
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:22:46 +0100, "Mike Lyle" wrote:
But I can't easily imagine any small greengrocer at any normal time who couldn't tell you what variety of spuds he was selling. It'd be on the sack, anyhow. I quite agree Mike. However ( ! isn't there always one ) Would that impress Mr Jobsworth ? Do you remember the littlehitlerism surrounding that seed list nonsense ? Not to mention the tactics used over lbs. weighing machines and gallon petrol pumps. Another scenario for you : Mr Greengrocer dumps the spuds into the trough/basket/display. Casts sack into waste bin and goes off back to market leaving littleherbert in charge of bagging up under the "Baking Potatoes" label ! "Yer wot" says littleherbert in response to a reasonable question ! |
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"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 |
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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? I think it would be nice. But I'm not going to get my knickers in a twist because of it. -- Tim C. |
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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 ... 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? -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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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 ... 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. -- Tim C. |
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"Tim Challenger" wrote in message
news:1124864793.9be065849b6e7c577032d2d3a393c551@t eranews... 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? I think it would be nice. But I'm not going to get my knickers in a twist because of it. Having more information about the food we're all eating can't be a bad thing, surely? At my local supermarket here in England, I can get anonymous tomatoes in a box (simply labelled "tomatoes"), plum tomatoes & cherry tomatoes (on or off the vine). I have some cherry tomatoes in my fridge now, which are labelled as the "Conchita" variety. I'd never noticed before that they even had a variety printed on them. I'll have to check the plum tomatoes next time I'm there. Same goes for the paprikas (we call them red/green/yellow/orange peppers in England, also known elsewhere in the world as capsicums or bell peppers). (In England btw, "paprika" only refers to the red spice derived from red peppers that is used in goulash). As for potatoes, it seems odd to me that next to a big box in my local supermarket labelled simply "White potatoes", I can get (at various times of the year) other potatoes which *are* labelled, e.g. Maris Piper, Jersey Royals, King Edwards, Desiree, Charlotte, etc. So what variety are these anonymous white potatoes? Regards Nick |
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:57:14 +0100, Nick Worley wrote:
"Tim Challenger" wrote in message news:1124864793.9be065849b6e7c577032d2d3a393c551@t eranews... 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? I think it would be nice. But I'm not going to get my knickers in a twist because of it. Having more information about the food we're all eating can't be a bad thing, surely? Of course. I agree totally. The point I was trying to make was that it seems odd to me that we get wound up about the details of not labelling potatoes when (it seemed to me) nearly everything else didn't have any variety label anyway. At my local supermarket here in England, I can get anonymous tomatoes in a box (simply labelled "tomatoes"), plum tomatoes & cherry tomatoes (on or off the vine). I have some cherry tomatoes in my fridge now, which are labelled as the "Conchita" variety. I'd never noticed before that they even had a variety printed on them. I'll have to check the plum tomatoes next time I'm there. That is my experience as well. I'll have to look more closely. Same goes for the paprikas (we call them red/green/yellow/orange peppers in England, also known elsewhere in the world as capsicums or bell peppers). (In England btw, "paprika" only refers to the red spice derived from red peppers that is used in goulash). I did know that but I forgot. Doh! I'm so used to the sweet peppers here being called paprika as well. As for potatoes, it seems odd to me that next to a big box in my local supermarket labelled simply "White potatoes", I can get (at various times of the year) other potatoes which *are* labelled, e.g. Maris Piper, Jersey Royals, King Edwards, Desiree, Charlotte, etc. So what variety are these anonymous white potatoes? no eyed deer. But that is also useful to know. Unless you're pretty well up on the many potato varieties, knowing that the potato is white or purple, and is floury or waxy is what most people really want to know, I think. -- Tim C. |
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"Tim Challenger" wrote in message
news:1125038225.e062fc4f66634d9995d8b92cdb54835a@t eranews... [snip] But that is also useful to know. Unless you're pretty well up on the many potato varieties, knowing that the potato is white or purple, and is floury or waxy is what most people really want to know, I think. I'd agree with that -- generally people just want to know whether a spud is good for mashing, deep-frying or roasting. Regards Nick |
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