No taste, NONE! And they cook up mushy. I wrote a commercial potato farm to inquire why they don’t sell Kennebec, which are very flavorful. They were honest. They wrote back to say Americans buy produce with their eyes and not for taste. They said they grow potatoes for looks and not flavor.
I will have to check some farmers markets. One shut down, no famers there, they all got too old or died. We still got one farmer’s market left. Sad…sad…sad.
Carrots lost in the root cellar! (Store bought carrots.)
Potatoes with flavor and non-GMO sweet corn and non-GMO cornmeal should be as easy to get as anything else. But not any longer. They are some of the most exotic foods there are, at least here! Big cities, I guess you can get whatever you like.
im in potato country and Kennebec’s and Ontario’s were the standard grown here since i was a kid. now you really have to search to find them. now its red potatoes , russets or Yukon golds that are the primary varieties with some growing the Adirondack blue potatoes. looks over taste. im with you . give me some homegrown Kennebec’s.
When most commercial farmers decide what varieties to grow, flavor usually comes in about #5 on the priority list, being beat out by: looks, easy to grow, finished product all looking the same (size, color, shape)
The only way to change this is for enough people to stop buying the inferior products they produce.
This is Red Skin potato territory here. There are a lot of local farms that grow them and and assortment of finger potatoes. Even some primal South American varieties.
Want I dearly want are some good ole English roasting potatoes. King Edward , Maris Piper types.
A real treat? Sometimes we get bags of quarter sized potatoes. Awesome roasted.
check out wood prairie family farm. they grow some interesting potatoes from all over the country and some from out of the country. they’re about 60 mi. south of me.
Boy, I don’t know. I buy potatoes very infrequently, but when I do they’re very good. I look for baby reds and small yellows (Yukon Golds I imagine). When roasted with olive oil and seasoned salt they’re delicious.
I have the same experience with potatoes in our local stores. The quality has really gone down the last few years. They’re often green or already sprouting in the bag. Potatoes are pretty easy to grow but I have trouble storing them for very long. Wish I had a root cellar. I’ve switched mostly to sweet potatoes because they’re much easier for me to store for several months.
I’ve grown potatoes and they have been fine, but you must have a more sensitive palate than mine. I don’t find a great deal of advantage in growing my own potatoes and the Yukon Gold potatoes I buy taste about the same to me as what I can grow.
I have also switched over to sweet potatoes over regular potatoes. They’re just easier for us in my garden, they’re easier to store, and we love the taste. We just swap them out for potatoes. It’s quite a treat for us to eat purple mashed potatoes that are delicious.
if i dont grow my own , i just go out in the fields after they get done harvesting. i can get about 100lbs in 20min. just picking the ones the harvester missed. most of them are the little ones that you want anyway. only the elderly and the lazy buy potatoes here.
Good old Norland is still by far our favorite. Sweet, juicy creamy, what’s not to like?
This yr planted half a row of, “German Butterball”. Claimed as a very good storage spud, mpo very good for mashed, perhaps chips.
Carbs are poison for you? Why is that? Not you but, Lots of people think they can’t eat carbs it really baffles me how they programmed people into thinking that it’s bad for them or it will make them gain weight. Those are processed carbs.
Now there are new symptoms and relatively new diseases popping up they’re blaming on the foods and seeds(diverticulitis now everyone has it) so the doctors tell them to stop eating them but I know it’s the poisons and synthetics on them.
@Plants… If you really want to know how some people can speak with authority on how specific foods or macros affect their health.
Research elimination diets (AIP, FODMAP, Carnivore)… and the challenge phase (reintroducing foods in a very controlled and documented way) of the ellimination diet.
