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Spuds price rise

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  • #52
    ScumLord
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    girl in the striped socks wrote: »
    Grow your own. They taste way better.
    Or if you can't do that find a farmer that sells them & buy direct off him.
    How does the potato go bad if the farmer gives it to a distributor who sells onto shops?


  • #53
    ruthloss
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    I heard King Edward's are tiny.:rolleyes:


  • #54
    ruthloss
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    How does the potato go bad if the farmer gives it to a distributor who sells onto shops?


    The ground is waterlogged, the machines can't get in to harvest them and so they are rotting in the ground.


  • #55
    ScumLord
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    ruthloss wrote: »
    The ground is waterlogged, the machines can't get in to harvest them and so they are rotting in the ground.
    Not what I was getting at. How do potatoes taste better if I buy them off the farmer direct rather than getting them in a shop, who buys them off a distributor who buys them direct from the same farmer?


  • #56
    JohnMarston
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Quick.. to the famine ships!

    Too soon Url...


  • #57
    ruthloss
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Not what I was getting at. How do potatoes taste better if I buy them off the farmer direct rather than getting them in a shop, who buys them off a distributor who buys them direct from the same farmer?


    Oh right!., sorry, no idea.


  • #58
    Alter-Ego
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    Quorum wrote: »
    :confused:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vh5y82GXIs

    ScumLord wrote: »
    Not what I was getting at. How do potatoes taste better if I buy them off the farmer direct rather than getting them in a shop, who buys them off a distributor who buys them direct from the same farmer?

    If you can get them off a farmer that has just whipped them out of the ground you'll get much better quality potatoes.

    From the supermarket, you're getting a crop that has been put into tonne boxes in the field, then possibly put into a bulk trailer, then dumped onto a packing line, put through weighing and bagging machines, onto palletisers, crammed onto a lorry trailer, sent to a distribution centre, then to the shop to sit on the shop floor or in storage for a few days before you get your hands on it.


  • #59
    working fool
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    Smash + egg cups
    Or peel frozen chips and boil them
    Sorted


  • #60
    ejmaztec
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    It's all down to peak potatoes, just like peak oil.:(


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  • #61
    ScumLord
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    Alter-Ego wrote: »
    If you can get them off a farmer that has just whipped them out of the ground you'll get much better quality potatoes.
    Yeah but that's a once a year type potato, if the farmer is storing them and you buy them after a certain amount of time they're not going to be all that different.


  • #62
    Alter-Ego
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Yeah but that's a once a year type potato, if the farmer is storing them and you buy them after a certain amount of time they're not going to be all that different.
    Yeah, that mainly applies to New Potatoes.

    Don't buy washed potatoes the rest of the year though. The washing process doesn't do them any favours and they stay fresher for longer with the soil still attached. ;)


  • #63
    W0bble5
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭W0bble5


    Relax lads, pretty soon they'll be digging themselves out of the ground when they're good & ready to be eaten.....

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0726/potatoes-genetically-modified.html


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