On Sun, 3 May 2009 07:05:32 -0400, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>"Miche" > wrote in message
...
>> 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

My mother's was creamed peas and new potatoes, new potatoes from the
can.