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Cheri[_3_]

"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Janet" > wrote in message
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>> In article >,
>> says...
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>>> There is a restaurant in a hotel near us. The restaurant has had it's
>>> ups and downs.
>> Got a new chef, manager recently. We decided to give it a try for a
>> little birthday dinner. I had the duck breast, and it was wonderful.
>> The best thing was the vegetable served with it. It was tiny, tender
>> Brussels sprouts and teeny-tiny potatoes. I have never seen potatoes
>> that small, they were about 1 inch across.
>>
>> Don't they sell those in US supermarkets?
>>
>> In UK they are called (and sold as) "new potatoes", the first of the
>> season's crop, very tender and delicious.
>>
>> Janet UK
>
> Those are smaller than new, I think. We can get them but not every store
> has them and only perhaps once a year.

Maybe they're just cut to a small size regular potatoes, like the *baby*
carrots. ;-)

Cheri