"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
> 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

Yes. I just hope that they don't continue.