Free potatoes

[fillyboy]

The Russians share their love of potato vodka.

A potato farmer near Fowey took to making vodka as a side hustle a few years back but at over 40 quid a bottle, I've not tried it.

 

[Dec27]

The Russians share their love of potato vodka.

Chase vodkas “British” is far superior

 

[Ihavenojob]

I wonder if Berlin has a "Smash" factory that can make instant mash? It has quite a long shelf life. I used to keep a bit in my store cupboard but don't see it now.

Frozen mashed potato is the thing now. The only problem with it is it is quite bulky, unlike Smash, so it takes up a bit of space in the freezer.

 

[Vinty]

Best Spud advert ever.

 

[big-all]

Can you just plough potatoes back into the ground? I rotate my crops on allotment but no matter how well I clear my old potato beds, you only have to miss the smallest piece of potato and it will grow again, year after year! I’d have thought commercial growers wouldn’t want that.

probably not thats why they go to the expense off transporting away to get rid off them

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Is anyone else disappointed that this thread doesn't contain a voucher code to get free potatoes from some website?

I feel like I've been mis-sold. I want free stuff waa waa waa.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Can you just plough potatoes back into the ground? I rotate my crops on allotment but no matter how well I clear my old potato beds, you only have to miss the smallest piece of potato and it will grow again, year after year! I’d have thought commercial growers wouldn’t want that.

I know a former potato farmer. They had a bad crop - many tons of them, they chucked them in a convenient hole they had to rot down.

Some time later, they wandered over that way and saw a mysterious blur of moving, shimmering ground. The entire ground was a sea of rats.

 

[JohnD]

Is anyone else disappointed that this thread doesn't contain a voucher code to get free potatoes from some website?

I feel like I've been mis-sold. I want free stuff waa waa waa.

Try Ryanair.

 

[morqthana]

The Russians share their love of potato vodka.

Anything starchy can be fermented.

Anything fermented can be distilled.

 

[morqthana]

Frozen mashed potato is the thing now. The only problem with it is it is quite bulky, unlike Smash, so it takes up a bit of space in the freezer.

I don't buy frozen mash, but as it takes nowhere near twice as long to make twice as much mash as you need, I often do that, and freeze half of it.