General Chat

Brenda from Wales - I had some of the Cornwall new potatoes that I bought, for my dinner last night, really tasty, certainly more flavour than the Jersey Royals I have tried, will have the rest of them with my dinner tonight ;-)

Good...OFITG...don't know if we get those in N Wales..but as a lot of my ancestors were farmers and millers in Cornwall,Im glad that standards haven't dropped!!

Waiting for the earlies from OH's allotment.

Most of the so called 'Jersey Royals' aren't the real thing at all.

They masquerade under the supplier having Jersey Royal somewhere in their name. Look for the variety. In many cases it isn't quoted or if it is, it is something completely different.

A big scam really so as they say, Buyer Beware.

Brenda......M&S have the Cornish new potatoes :-)

Sorry to hear/read your comments on Jersey Royals. I live in Jersey and we used to grow these potatoes for export until we retired about 10 years ago. I still sell some for a friend who is still in the business and his crop has the original taste and all his are grown using seaweed (which does make a difference to the taste).
Unfortunately your major supermarkets are no longer interested in quality only quantity and how low a price they can buy them for. This now means the local farmers can no longer afford the time to wait for the crop to mature properly (i.e the potato is white because it isn't mature) or use seaweed which is expensive to collect and spread.
This has been a funny year weather wise for potatoes as the frost and then the large amount of snow we had disrupted the growing potatoes resulting in an early crop that produced very small pots and the later ones only produced one or two bigger pots.
The supermarkets now control the size of the product too so the very small potatoes are no longer allowed to be shipped and in fact the bigger ones are dumped as the supermarkets don't want those either. (The making of Jersey Potato Vodka is currently being trialed using the bigger pots.)
There is no longer an open market for the sale of Jersey Royals and most of the crop now goes directly to your major supermarkets so if you buy them anywhere else then there is no quarantee that you are buying a Jersey Royal.

Pam

I agree about the taste. I like Jersey potato's done in their jackets. Sorry about that.

Happy days

Thank you Pamela for your explanation....
I agree the supermarkets have a lot to answer for.
It's the same with most things...all to do with price competition.
Interesting to find how the Jersey vodka turns out.

Will try some Cornish potatoes if they have them in my nearest M&S :-)

I love Jersey potatoes in their jackets too Harry,with lots of best butter :-Dx

Thanks for all the interesting info. on Royals Pam.............come on let's all go to Pam's place :-Dx