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Default Why don't we speak of potatoes?


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> Pandora wrote:
>
>>>> Here in Italy are not eatable!!!! I say the truth! About 20 years ago
>>>> they
>>>> were very good to be fried. Now they are very soft and you can't do
>>>> anything
>>>> with them, Neither Gnocchi! I Am thincking seriously to order them
>>>> from
>>>> Germany.
>>>> And you? What do you tell me about your potatoes?

>
> It is a shortcoming in supermarkets, but at our regular beg market more
> types are available. At my bio market I can even buy the long oval dark
> potatoes that I associate with baked potatoes in the US. The tiny
> versions I roast under sale grosso. The big ones make great french fries.


I don't know these oval dark potatoes. Have you got the exact name?

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