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[Pepper Pig Profile]

Do you eat sprouting potatoes? Prue Leith has just put this on Twitter.

If your potatoes have gone a bit soft or grown little sprouts, don't throw them away. Simple pull off the sprouts and peel them. Under the surface will be a perfect firm potato ready to be enjoyed. Watch it here- https://youtu.be/zzEeRtE9eNA

I'm afraid I don't. Will have to have a rethink.

[Pampy Profile]

I do, unless they are very bad.

[KeenCook2 Profile]

Yes, I eat them too, unless they've absolutely had it!
I'm also never sure about green potatoes.

[liketocook Profile]

Unless they have turned into triffids yep I peel and use. A small patch of surface green I'll chop off but anymore than that and I don't risk it.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

Unless they have turned into triffids yep I peel and use. A small patch of surface green I'll chop off but anymore than that and I don't risk it.

Same here

[Suelle Profile Website]

I eat them too - even with a small bag, some potatoes have often started to sprout by the time i get to the last few.

[Suffs Profile]

I absolutely don't eat green potatoes, although I will cut a small piece of green away. However I'll happily remove the sprouts from potatoes, peel, cook and eat them.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Ditto Suffs, green is an issue, sprouts a minor inconvenience

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I agree re green v sprout. I'm quite surprised it's worthy of conversation really - I thought that's what the pointed end of old fashioned potato peelers was for!

I don't mind 'on the turn' green (or should I say I will tolerate it) but was once told green was bad for female reproductive systems and that some indigenous peoples used them as a form of birth control (spontaneous abortion I think) so I have always been really careful about only serving perfect potatoes to women of childbearing age. I have no idea if it's true!

[aero280 Profile]

All the old potato peelers have a pointy end so that you can dig out the eyes in the potatoes. As far as I'm aware no one died form eating those. But I do cut off any green skin, as I was told to do by my mother and grandmother...

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Whereas my mother said you shouldn’t eat a sprouting potato.

[aero280 Profile]

I used to work with a Turkish girl. She was horrified when I dropped a grape on the floor, picked it up, wiped it and ate it. She reckoned that once food had touched the ground it had to be thrown away. You couldn’t eat it even if washed. I don’t know where she was brought up. It must have been somewhere very upmarket.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

That might be a religious thing though Aero.

[Amyw Profile]

The odd sprout I don’t mind cutting off but when there’s a lot I get rid and I never use green potatoes

[WWordsworth Profile]

Same as Suffs

[karadekoolaid Profile]

She was horrified when I dropped a grape on the floor, picked it up, wiped it and ate it.

I never eat anything that´s fallen on the floor, either.
the dog always gets there first.

I don´t eat green potatoes - they taste horribly bitter. And my potatoes rarely grow sprouts. They never get a chance but if they did, I´d just dig them out.

[aero280 Profile]

That might be a religious thing though Aero.

I don’t think so. She was a catholic, at least as far as I could tell from her chat and the wedding photos. The wedding was in Turkey.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Ah right. Not that then. I was brought up with all sorts of very odd cleanliness and freshness rules and it wasn’t until I was older that I realised my mother had OCD. I am not of that persuasion but there are figments that remain I think.

[scullion Profile]

i used to call badgers 'figments' - until i finally saw one.