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Default Potato spots again.

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:40:24 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>Remember the weird spots in the potatoes a few years ago making them nearly
>inedible! Well... It's back. Twice I bought a bag of small red potatoes
>at Target. Once they sprouted almost immediately and I wound up tossing
>them out. After getting very bad stomach pains following the trimming of
>sprouts and eating the potatoes, never again.
>
>I bought a second bag that looked good and vowed to use them quickly. And
>some were beginning to sprout. Just tiny sprouts. Some were also slightly
>mushy feeling. But I only needed a few to roast with some onions. However,
>in cutting the seemingly good ones open, many had those weird brown/black
>spots inside like they did a few years ago.


Sounds like a police matter to me.

>And before anyone jumps on me for cooking ahead... I have to now with my
>husband's schedule. He has to eat before it is our normal dinner time which
>would be 6:00 p.m. or later.


Not so much a police matter as a job for a suitable piece of 2x4.