On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 02:33:50 -0700 (PDT), Bryan-TGWWW
> wrote:

>On Monday, September 29, 2014 10:40:24 PM UTC-5, 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.
>>
>Am I the only one who saw the subject and half expected this to be about
>one of Julie's myriad of physical disorders?

Those black spots are a potato disease... not harmful but not
appetizing... typically those go to livestock food processors but some
markets will sell them at low sale prices.
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.corne..._Detection.htm