Super market Maris Piper potatoes being mislabled

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Klenchblaize said:
I stand corrected and suitably reprimanded.

K
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You shouldn’t interpret being told that you smell of fresh wild flowers as being a reprimand. obviously it’s not as high a calling as being a loyal daily customer at McDonalds ;who’s footsteps make rubber squeaking sounds as they rush to collect their orders .
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Kindest regards, Olaf
 
Olaf said:
Thank you . My girlfriends mum knit’s them from Merino wool or sheep wool depending on what’s on offer when she stocks up on knitting ammo. She’s like a knitting machine ! Everyone knows what they will be getting off her for Christmas or their birthday. But they are always a surprise pattern and colours 😃
Kindest regards, Olaf
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Is a Merino wool or sheep wool? Are they not both sheep?
 
kenbro said:
Is a Merino wool or sheep wool? Are they not both sheep?
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Oh very different. My family were worsted spinners and sheep wool can vary greatly in the length of the staple and the strength of it. So some wools are suitable for making softer garments such as wool underwear and other wools are better for making bespoke suits.

I remember seeing the teaching book that their then factory manager had had to make when they sent him to Bradford Wool College. It was pages and pages of samples of different raw wools from fleeces so that he could learn the differences between the types.

Here's something from the internet.

In a shooting context it'd be loosely like the difference between reloading powders in that different powders have charateristics better suited for some applications than other applications. So yes you could make a suit from merino wool but it wouldn't be as durable as a suit made from another wool.

In that same train of thought using the analogy "are they not both sheep", yes, you could use say Bullseye powder or Reloader 22 to load a .308 Winchester cartridge with a 150 grain bullet to get the same muzzle velocity if ignoring the pressure that the Bullseye load would generate.

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Cyres said:
So I been making home made chips and roast potatoes for 40 years and only use Maris Piper spuds.
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y them by the 25 kg bag last ones were from Berwick on Tweed. Excellent spuds.
Recently ran out so got some from Lidl. First lot of roasties were awful. Then made chips. Dark brown mushy. Complained to Lidl and got a refund. Today made roasties with Morrisons and M@S Maris pipers. Slightly better but not crisp and not fluffy.
Clearly they are not Maris piper.
Looking at packaging details supplier appears to be Angus.
I think 2 possible issues. Spuds mixed up on packaging lines or the supplier deliberately using a different variety.
I want to report the issue to the food standards agency but there is no way to raise any issue with them.
Some pictures of packaging and the spuds I used today.
Anybody else having issues with super market Maris piper?
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Crocs aside, I think this is an excellent thread. I too have a great love of the quality deep fried chips. An important thing is also one’s choice of frying fat, in my experience beef fat is the ultimate, only not so practical for a home fryer as it doesn’t keep so long / well. I’ve found that a fantastic alternative though is palm fat, relatively cheap from Bookers catering wholesale in Cambridge. However, it’s very hard to get either when I’m working in Germany. I actually brought a slab of palm fat and two sacks of Maris and 5 l of malt vinegar when a drove over last time so I could have that perfect taste of home. Another thing I’ve found is that the right variety of potatoes for chips is extremely difficult to find in Germany, despite me being in the middle of some extremely large and high quality potato farming areas. Two varieties that I have found through potato farming friends in Germany are Agria potatoes and recently ( possibly some of the finest I’ve had in years in the uk or Germany ) are Favola potatoes. Agria are ( I’m told) bought by places like Burger Ming and Mcwhaterver…. For their Fries. The Favola get bought for the frozen chips market.
I’ve tried loads of different varieties while in Germany I’ve found that in the uk, it’s far easier to come by good chipping spuds.
a friend just round the corner from me in the village I live in when working in Germany owns a very large potato storage facility , there’s literally thousands and thousands of potato crates in his warehouses, most of them useless for chips. Some of the strangest and also disgusting ones were these really odd completely cylindrical and identically sized GM things that get sold for making crisps ( crisps- also utterly crap in Germany) Walkers salt and Vinegar are another something I regularly stock up on when at home in Cambridge . On the frying fat , something that I really cannot stand are these blocks of frying pat made from ‘vegetable’ fats, rapeseed oil is possibly one of the most disgusting tasting things that can be found in those supermarket bought frying fats.
When I’m missing home and the green hunting fields , I do like a chip butty with lots of butter and salt and MALT vinegar or a salt and vinegar crisp sandwich on some of my homemade soft white baps . That or good old fish and chips with homemade musshy peas. Nearly all my German friends absolutely love fish and chips and if I’ve got friends coming over I like to make them our Great British treasure.
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Kindest regards, Olaf
 
Back on the subject of spuds. I got some spuds from Morrisons that were allegedly Jersey Royals. I say allegedly as they were completely tasteless and it was only the Lurpak that made them edible.
It may be just an age thing but nothing seems to have the flavours they once had.
 
Yorkie said:
Back on the subject of spuds. I got some spuds from Morrisons that were allegedly Jersey Royals. I say allegedly as they were completely tasteless and it was only the Lurpak that made them edible.
It may be just an age thing but nothing seems to have the flavours they once had.
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It maybe a good time to start growing your own! I've started cheery toms & Romanian lettuce on my window sills.
 
Big Tone said:
It maybe a good time to start growing your own! I've started cheery toms & Romanian lettuce on my window sills.
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And what's wrong with proper British lettuce I ask? British gardens for British lettuce. I shall be contacting Lee 30p Anderson forthwith. Demanding no more foreign lettuce should be allowed to be planted in British soil.
 
Cloudhopper said:
Anybody else having issues with super market Maris piper?

Yes.Bought some from Lidl a couple of weeks ago. Seemed to boil in about half the usual time and soaked up the water like a sponge.
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I always thought those are Piper characteristics, my neighbour used to say that if he boiled them very long they went to soup.🤣
 
finnbear270 said:
Lots of places flogging "Jersey Royals" that turn out to be to the finer trencherman, as "Salad" potatoes of the Charlotte or Maris gene pool.:(
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Hi.
So if they use the term "Jersey Royals" it just refers to the fact they are grown on Jersey and not to the variety?
 
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