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Default what's wrong with our potatoes?



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 May 2017 20:05:24 +0100, Bod wrote:


Many years ago, I discovered a gorgeous tomato variety called
"SunGold".
It retailed briefly and disappeared from trace. (You can still buy
seeds
for it). In it's place we have SunBurst, SunBlush,SunDream all of
which
may as well be called "Sun****". I really can't remember the last time
I
bought tomatoes *anywhere* in the UK. Even (especially) from "farm
shops". They are universally bland.

I now know why so many European ex-pats in the UK grow their own veg.

And don't get me started about apples......

See above.

Have you noticed that the vast majority of supermarket tomatoes have
*very* thick and tough skins?

I don't see what all the fuss is about, all potatoes and tomatoes taste
fine to me.

Fine, but the rest of us can tell the difference in taste.


Never heard anyone say that before.


Then you need a hearing aid, bad.

Especially with potatoes which have almost no flavour anyway,


Even sillier than you usually manage. Your taste buds are ****ed.

they're always mixed with other foods which have a taste to them.


Not always.