Declining Potato sales - Very Serious

Tell me how · 29-07-2019 06:40AM

L1011 wrote: »

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.

L1011 wrote: »

The idea of a destroyed overcooked veg and spuds with desiccated meat dinner is something you need to be either quite old or quite rural to actually think you like - that's what they're worried about losing as people die off.

I have a feeling there's something else you want to talk about.

pwurple · 29-07-2019 06:45AM

Nothing wrong with rice or pasta at all, but they are not vegetables.

potatoes are a veg too. They have a load of vitamins and minerals, which makes them a step above the other carbs.

A steamed potato in its skin, alongside a salad and grilled fresh mackerel is my favourite summer food. Fresh, delicious, healthy, environmentally conscious. Zero air miles, all grown or caught within 10 miles. Best food in the world.

super_furry · 29-07-2019 06:45AM

Think it's just a case of more options and exposure to other foods. When I was a kid my Mam would buy a big sack of potatoes each week and we'd pretty much have them in some form or another seven days a week. Now I buy spuds much less frequently and maybe have them once a week.

Unearthly · 29-07-2019 06:45AM

Great food. Still a big part of my diet

The Bishop Basher · 29-07-2019 06:49AM

L1011 wrote: »

The idea of a destroyed overcooked veg and spuds with desiccated meat dinner is something you need to be either quite old or quite rural to actually think you like - that's what they're worried about losing as people die off.

I’m sorry you were subjected to that but don’t assume we all were. Even now in her 80’s my mother is still a phenomenal cook and I’m still learning things from her. Only this weekend she was passing on her recipes to my two grown up daughters and not a spud in sight.

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

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.

Eh, us “oldies” have access to the internet too you know and we are also well capable of finding information about our food along with recipes, diet tips and we can even make informed decisions about the food we buy. I hate to break it to you but your generation aren’t special or unique in any of this regard.

Dia_Anseo · 29-07-2019 07:18AM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

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.

Did anyone read this essay?

If so, please give me the gist of it, Thanks!

The Bishop Basher · 29-07-2019 07:35AM

Dia_Anseo wrote: »

Did anyone read this essay?

If so, please give me the gist of it, Thanks!

Well they had to ask what an avocado looked like despite having the Internet but apparently us “oldies” just eat spuds all day because we don’t have the Internet to look up avocados.

Something like that..

enricoh · 29-07-2019 07:36AM

Had new queens from rush with the grub yesterday - dynamite. Pasta me arse!

killanena · 29-07-2019 07:43AM

I'm 26 and have a kids and we buy a bag of spuds most weeks. If I was single I wouldn't bother because they'd only flower before I'd get to use them. Most my friends my age tend not to cook for themselves often and live off eating out or takeaway's.

Tammy! · 29-07-2019 07:46AM

I'm mid thirties and have potatoes around three or four times a week. When I was younger, we had potatoes practically every day.

On a Friday, youd have chips. You couldn't beat my mother's homemade chips from the chip pan. As another poster said, it's just more variety.

I say bring back Seamus and Shiela....

GLaDOS · 29-07-2019 07:53AM

I'll probably get lynched for this, but yeah I find potatos fairly boring tbh. I'll eat them once, occasionally twice, a week, but more out of convenience then anything else.

The best potatos are usually so smothered in butter or other toppings you can barely taste the potato.

Fionn1952 · 29-07-2019 07:55AM

I would've grown up with some sort of spuds at least five or six days a week, pasta and rice being eaten occasionally. The mother was a wonderful cook, so we all ate well. I've no problem at all with the humble spud, but I'd eat a much broader range of food than I grew up with.

Often getting in from work, the last thing I want to do is peel a clatter of spuds and steam them when I could cook fresh pasta in four minutes (or make fresh pasta in the time it would take to make the spuds).

That said, wouldn't dream of having my Saturday morning fry without a bit of boxty or potato bread.

Bit sad for some to use it as an excuse to rant about millennial mind - as time has gone on, even my old man, who was firmly a meat and spuds man, has massively diversified his eating habits, purely due to the increased availability of a wider range of foods.

No matter how some yearn for it, the 1970s were sh*te, and we're not going back.

Harry Palmr · 29-07-2019 08:02AM

Need exciting varieties, blue ones, purple ones, small and sassy with a hint of gluten free about them!

Spuds are seen as boring as they are used as filler rather than a genuine feature of a meal.

29-07-2019 08:05AM

It's nothing to do with being cool. We're lazy about potatoes. When most people think potatoes they think 'Roosters' -- a frankly disgusting, charmless, bland spud. Yet it dominates the market.

Most of the interesting potatoes are imported. Most pre-made chips are also, apparently, imported. Most seeds are imported -- why??

The potato farmer needn't give out about milennials giving up spuds, they just need to improve their offering. We are not going to stay eating roosters forever.

Bob Harris · 29-07-2019 08:12AM

You can't have Waffles without potatoes.

Alf Veedersane · 29-07-2019 08:12AM

Sariyah Cool Bedbug wrote: »

Middle aged Irish boomers have bellies, too many carbs.

This is partly why people eat fewer potatoes.

If someone has a belly, it's not because they eat potatoes. It's because they eat too much across the whole day.

Nothing wrong with potatoes and they don't make people fat

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 29-07-2019 08:18AM

People who say spuds are boring are doing it wrong. It's such a versatile vegetable, and the choice in Ireland is quite good. In other countries there's just variants of the same bloody potato.

Graces7 · 29-07-2019 08:21AM

Have a look at the meal photos on the food forum here on boards. ie

Few potatoes there. Not trendy enough :rolleyes:

Buying less here as growing more.

Tell me how · 29-07-2019 08:21AM

JeanL wrote: »

I say bring back Seamus and Shiela....

I swear I remember watching that when it was originally broadcast.
Makes me nostalgic.

El_Duderino 09 · 29-07-2019 08:27AM

Dia_Anseo wrote: »

Yes that's it, what is the problem here?

Have you an idea to make potato hip and trendy with the millennials??

Yes. Don’t put it in the same sentence as “hip” or “trendy”. I know you’re trying to help, daddy-o, but have you considered asking the dreaded millennials what they think rather than assuming you know best?

Subcomandante Marcos · 29-07-2019 08:29AM

Spuds are actually one of the trendiest crops in the efforts for climate change adaptation in sub Saharan Africa.

Traditional cereals like corn are becoming exponentially less efficient due to changes in rainfall patterns and as a result cropa like potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cassava are being promoted as valuable famine relief crops.

Very popular in Kenya at the minute where the humble Irish white can be seen on stalls across the country sold as "local grown Irish Potatoes".

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-07-2019 08:30AM

Growers need to look at the varieties they are offering customers. They have, over the years, gone for high yield over flavour and texture and are trying to have one variety meets all requirements. There are potatoes that are better suited to chips than mash, others ideal for baked potato, others for salads etc.

Tell me how · 29-07-2019 08:31AM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Yes. Don’t put it in the same sentence as “hip” or “trendy”. I know you’re trying to help, daddy-o, but have you considered asking the dreaded millennials what they think rather than assuming you know best?

Trick question.
You don't have to ask millennials what they think because they'll tell you.

Blog/insta/FB update/Tweet, if you're not telling someone about it, did it really happen?

d15ude · 29-07-2019 08:42AM

Fionn1952 wrote: »

Often getting in from work, the last thing I want to do is peel a clatter of spuds and steam them when I could cook fresh pasta in four minutes (or make fresh pasta in the time it would take to make the spuds).

Just leave the skin on and put them in the microwave.

https://www.potato.ie/hints-and-tips/how-to-microwave-potatoes/

JohnnyFlash · 29-07-2019 08:46AM

I absolutely love spuds. Definitely my favourite carb, and sometimes my favourite food of all. New season potatoes with butter and salt and a pint of milk is an epic meal.

El_Duderino 09 · 29-07-2019 08:47AM

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.

Apart from it being the least original thing for a middle aged person to whinge about da’youfs, Is the fact that they eat fewer potatoes in any way connected or were you just venting about the dreaded millennials?

theteal · 29-07-2019 08:47AM

Thankfully we don't eat as many spuds as I did when a chiseler but that's purely down to how our world has evolved since the 80's. Dinner everyday as a kid was some form of potato, some type of over boiled veg and a meat. The mother to this day would still be basing 95% of meals on the majestic spud - can't really blame her, born and raised on a south Kildare farm in the 50's, ne'er a sniff of couscous back then.

In our own example, it's nothing to do with health, it's purely down to the availability of other options and we have more knowledge of recipes and ingredients from all over the world. We still do spuds maybe 3 days a week, it's not exactly difficult or time consuming - it probably helps that I very rarely peel them.

Also, I've never really gotten a taste from potatoes. Doesn't really matter about the variety, they're getting boiled, mashed, salt, pepper, butter and served still steaming

Fionn1952 · 29-07-2019 08:48AM

d15ude wrote: »

Fionn1952 wrote: »

Often getting in from work, the last thing I want to do is peel a clatter of spuds and steam them when I could cook fresh pasta in four minutes (or make fresh pasta in the time it would take to make the spuds).

Just leave the skin on and put them in the microwave.

https://www.potato.ie/hints-and-tips/how-to-microwave-potatoes/

Depends on what I'm doing with them, but by the time you've given them a good scrub and microwaved them, I've probably cooked and eaten a quick midweek pasta dish.

El_Duderino 09 · 29-07-2019 08:53AM

Tell me how wrote: »

Trick question.
You don't have to ask millennials what they think because they'll tell you.

Blog/insta/FB update/Tweet, if you're not telling someone about it, did it really happen?

Chortle Chortle Chortle. So you already know what they think. Should be easy to solve the potato problem them. So share your solution.

The hubris of old folk on display as usual, unfortunately. Far too often old boys think young people's knowledge is just a subset of their own knowledge.

GLaDOS · 29-07-2019 09:02AM

Goddamn millennials and their... alternative sources of carbs.

Declining Potato sales - Very Serious

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