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Cheri[_3_]

"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> > "Janet" > wrote in message
>> > t...
>> >> 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. ;-)
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> Oh, so you've never seen them either? They are cooked and served in
> their skins; it's too delicate to peel.
>
> Janet UK

It was a joke. Yes, I have seen them, they sell them in little bags.

Cheri