Fertilizer got expensive. So farmers are using less of it.
Great question.
All of the above?
Noticed the same thing, last time we made baby potatoes. Would. Not. Get. Done.
There’s a potato shortage in Russia. Putin had to ask Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus for extra potatoes.
I buy Walmart potatoes all the time. They’re just fine. Made scalloped, home fries and wedges (w/Baking powder) last week. They each came out great.
Interesting.
I was just thinking of getting some Yukon Golds for potato salad, and I’m thinking boiling them into submission should still work.
It’s just the tater bug. After a few weeks it
dies and become fertilizer for the next crop.
I live near potato country. The ones you’re buying now have been in storage all winter. Fresh ones won’t be around untill late summer.
All genetically modified food is same. Looks great, but has no taste.
I did smoked pork chops and fried Yukon Gold’s from Aldi last night...
Worked fine for me... Then again, I use butter for frying spuds... Never canola or other seed oils.
I noticed that this week. They were plenty cooked but had an almost plastic texture that felt funny in my mouth. They were bakers and I pitched the remaining two.
We are being slowly poisoned and starved.
Slice, dice, and tenderize via microwave oven. Then cook as usual.
I will have a huge crop of potatoes this year. I planted an entire bushel of Yukon gold and they’re growing gangbusters.
Are they from the USA? Nowadays, just about all of the tomatoes available at supermarkets—at least in Southern California—are from Mexico, and the same is true for other types of produce. I have been trying to get most of my produce at farmer’s markets.
I’ve seen videos about people saying their crops and fields have been sprayed with aluminum oxide and therefore won’t grow anything any more, and if it somehow does, the crops all looked deformed. Related?
From your description it looks like they’ve lost their apeel.
“The spuds for sale at WalMart or Publix for five and six bucks a bag look like the real thing, but wait until you try to cook them.”
Fauxtatoes, Spud Lites... you really have to keep yer eye out.
This is why I shop at real grocery stores.
I have the best looking potato crop EVER.
This probably due to Hurricane Helene wiping out most of my trees.
Now I have as much as 9 hours sun instead of the usual 6 or less.
They look pretty healthy.
We shall see...
The potato salad in the delis I’ve shopped here are almost always under cooked.
I have no problem at all cooking potatoes. Fried, baked, or boiled they aren’t any different than what we’ve always been eating, so I have no idea what’s causing your difficulties.
Growing them is still easy as ever,and there are more varieties to choose from than when I was a kid, such as yellow and purple fleshed ones, though nowhere near the number of varieties Peruvians grow.