"Miche" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:
>
>> "cybercat" > wrote in message
>> >
>> > Other stuff I don't understand: canned carrots. ???? Is there anything
>> > easier than carrots to prepare from fresh?
>>
>> Hard to believe, but I know a couple of people that prefer canned veggies
>> over fresh or frozen. My MIL preferred canned asparagus over fresh
>> because
>> they were so much more tender. Yuck.
>
> My ex-MIL used to buy canned new potatoes. That was a total WTF.
>
> Miche
>

My mother used to buy those! Canned "new potatoes". And then (of all
things) she'd deep fry them, whole. I thought it was pretty weird and I was
just a teenager at the time.

Jill