"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> I simply buy small red new potatoes. They're much cheaper than these
> weirdly modified potatoes. I have a knife handy if I want to cut them
> into smaller pieces. Why would anyone really need potatoes the size of
> pearl onions?

Maybe for the same reason they want pearl onions instead of the larger ones?
The babies look so cute on the plate!

Felice