Declining Potato sales - Very Serious

It's down because of all the diet experts saying you should eat low carb or swap it for sweet potato. A load of bollox really. My grandmother has fed her children and grandchildren a staple daily diet of steamed spuds and none are obese or even overweight.

Always room in my house for a baked, roast or mashed potato.

Mashed spuds or baked with real butter. Cant bait it

Dug up a few from the garden yesterday and had a few this evening.

Mashed up with butter.

Lovely.:D

They estimate my age group buys 70+KG of spuds a year. If I buy 3x 2.5KG bags its a big buying year; and I won't use all of them. And thats for two of us.


No interest in my mothers standard slop of defrosted something and boiled spuds; and I suspect plenty others my age were fed the same. I cook what I want and is quite rare it has potatoes in it.

I'll tell ya one thing they taste an awful lot better than ****ing avocado. I couldn't pretend to like that muck.

... let's call the whole thing off.

JupiterKid wrote: »

I know I'm going to sound like a grumpy old fogey (I'm 44) but I honestly think Millenials are the most cosseted and spoilt generation of adults ever.

Maria Bailey.

She'd be around your age wouldn't she?

I love creamy mashed potato with loads of butter and salt, its lovely with baked salmon and veg.
Also love a good potato salad, mashed potatoes and mayonnaise are lovely mixed together, also love a baked potato loaded with butter and salt and a big dollop of coleslaw or cream cheese.
That said I never buy a big bag of them, only buy the small packets and only every couple of weeks, my parents would buy a big sack weekly which would be empty by the end of the week, I know if I bought a sack they would just go off and be thrown in the bin.
Ive been mostly buying sweet potatoes the last few years because theyre more nutrient dense than average spuds and theyre just as cheap. I dont see the point in making two different types of spuds for dinner, they wont all be eaten and will thrown in the bin, I dont like wasting food so dont buy the normal ones very often as theres no point.

I think that maybe millennial's are a bit more adventurous with our food compared to how our parents where? I dont remember getting anything other than toast, porridge or cereal for breakfast, cheese sandwiches or potato waffles for lunch and lasagna, spaghetti bolognese, chips and an egg, stew or meat spuds and veg for dinner. It was all fairly basic.
I didn't see a prawn till I was 17 and I didnt know what it was, First time I heard of and bought an avocado was at 15 after I read in a beauty book thats its good if you put one in your hair, I didn't know what it was and had to ask someone in the Supermarket if they had any and to show me where they were as I didnt know what they looked like.
It wasnt until the internet, having unlimited access to recipes and professional cooking videos and information on different types of foods that I started discovering all these new foods that were tasty, cheap and high in nutrients and that's when I started buying Avocados and different foods that I never would have heard of before and never got growing up.



I dont think it comes down to a generation of spoiled adults as one poster suggested, I think we just have access to allot more information regarding food and diet so we're able to make more informed decisions about the food we buy.

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Bit snobbish to say that people don’t like the food they eat.

And it’s perfectly possible to cook tasty veg

No no you just don't know it's muck you're eating, you must be old or rural