Look what I bought...

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I often buy mucky spuds at a local market ..sometimes even Cyprus potatoes with their lovely red earth ..I know I should only buy local and mainly do but Cyprus potatoes are fabulous for chips or roast and its only now and then the market stall has them ...oh and they are great in a moussaka

I remember we used to get a sackful of those. 55 cwt I think. How come they kept so well when supermarket washed ones last about a fortnight before they sprout?

Oooh, proper spuds! Yum ?

Our Asda potatoes often have a use by date of the next day. I hate this washing of vegetables and then packing them in plastic.

We also used to buy a hessian sack of potatoes and store them in the garage.

Potatoes from Pembroke were wonderful.

Mine come from the local farm shop like that.
You can still buy them from there by the sack but it's paper now.

Always loose dirty ones in Morrisons during cropping time. Great local Cornish spuds

We used to buy them by the sackful but don’t use nearly so many now. Quite often have pasta, rice or noodles instead.

Good size too, often supermarket ones too small for jackets!

We sometimes get spuds with mud on them from our son-in-law. Better still, they're free, because he's a farmer!

Ooh, just as they should be!

Yes, Pembrokeshire potatoes are the best - the county, not the town!

My potatoes with mud on are also free - well nearly. I plant them then dig them up myself.

Nice spuds! Are they local? I love garden-fresh produce!

On my way back from North Wales last Saturday, I spotted an old milk cart parked up in a farm lane. It was laden with paper bags of muddy spuds; bunches of muddy carrots with all their leaves; little soil laden cauliflowers; bags of bent runner beans and ..... best of all ...... trays of mucky free range eggs! ? I bought all my fresh produce for the week, plus bunches of sunflowers, all for £4.20. They were the tastiest veg I've had in a long time and went down a treat with the Welsh lamb with the family on Sunday.

Good size too, often supermarket ones too small for jackets!

That's because the supermarkets separate out the bigger ones and sell them as 'jacket potatoes', at an inflated price. Always annoys me

DH has had great crops in the allotment this year, particularly the potatoes, which last for ages in paper sacks in the cellar. We have Desiree, Charlotte, Red Duke of York and my favourite, Pink Fir Apples. All stored good and mucky.

I grow my own tatties in plastic barrels. They take up little space and produce a delicious, home grown treat.

I'm sorry to say I didn't notice where they came from. I was too excited by their authenticity! Spuds from the ground. Trace elements and minerals! Loose spuds. I could buy just as many as I needed. No waste. They were great for roasties but would have made good jackets too because there were no nasty surprises inside, nothing to cut away. They were from Morrison's.

Gonegirl I think you mean 56lb bags, that's half a cwt.

They keep much better too.

And the ones the supermarkets sell in bags for baking are minute! Which means buying them loose and washed at an even higher price! ?

Lovely Im fortunate to get them like this straight from the allotment now but always bought dirty tatties and carrots they seem to taste better

I remember we looked after my step grandchildren for a few days. I don't remember them watching me in the kitchen but when their mother came to pick them up, they went running to her saying 'Nanny Liz made chips OUT OF POTATOES'!

Gone girl...55cwt is almost 3 ton.