Jacket potatoes getting smaller?

[alexalisten]

We had jacket potatoes with cheese and beans and salad for tea and they where from them bags of 4 and they where so small one is no way big enough to be a meal so me and partner had 2 each which was the right amount but im sure in the past 1 has been plenty each. Are they getting smaller or are we getting greedier.?

I must admit I had a jacket potato last week as I don't like curry and rest of family having curry. I ate one and about an hour later I went back to kitchen to make another one. I felt a bit greedy but none of the ones in the bag looked very big.

I thought the same thing buying them last week, I was sure they used to be bigger years ago. I’ve no idea who spudman is but he sounds intriguing.

Same here. Much less faff and delicious.

Lidl have gigantic loose jp

He’s just a bellend. He kicked up a huge fuss about his stall being moved, turns out he’s been given a much better spot with space for loads of chairs and tables. Silence since.

he moaned about the bollards placement in the town square near his new stall however it’s been put there for a specific reason / to allow ambulances/fire engines a safe space to stop.

he charges £9 for a jacket spud with tinned toppings but if people are stupid enough to pay for it go ahead

my friend went and found a long pink hair in her potato, he doesn’t bother to wear hair or beard net or cover up the sores on his arms from his dialysis

That's why I always buy the loose ones

I love them with cheese, onion and pineapple, and tons of butter!

I have no idea what any of this refers to but it sounds very Alan Patridgey combined with A League of Gentlemany.

A local stall for local people

I couldn't get past £9 for a tattie 😜

Im intrigued by them toppings that actually sounds really nice

I think those bags of four are always too small for a meal, not just now with the hot weather. I have to buy the ones labelled large that come in 2s.

I just got some from Tesco delivery, ordered four loose and wrote "big ones please" (!) in the notes.

Size of my head.

Yes! I’ve noticed this for a while. I used to just use all the large potatoes from a bag of potatoes but they are now so small - I thought that maybe the larger potatoes were being sold loose for jacket potatoes but even those are small.

Yes!

It’s a climate issue I think, but been that way for a while, I miss the hulking tubers of my youth..

I have got some suitable size potatoes for jackets but not sure if and when I'll be able to use them for anything as when I opened the drawer yesterday there was a spider in the bag of potatoes 🤣😳
They were from a Tesco bag of Maris pipers.

They will be smaller but the main crop potatoes for this year won’t have been harvested yet. Current baking potatoes will be last year’s crop and it was a wet year.

I’m in NI and just bought a bag of Comber spuds (our local ones) and some of them are bloody enormous. So they will be our baked potatoes and the rest will be chips or mash.

I might treat myself to a jacket potato (or two) tonight with coronation chicken sandwich spread filling and salted butter.

it's the weather.
dry weather this year means small potatos.
wet weather last year meant shorter growing season and therefore small potatos.

better for our waistline

I miss the massive potatoes of my childhood! Even the biggest loose ones are nothing compared to how big they used to be. There used to be a baked potato cafe where I grew up and the potatoes were massive. I haven’t seen one like that for years.

Also, watch his videos, his truck is filthy, constantly. There is so much spilled food everywhere. People like spud bros on the other hand have immaculate trucks, they clean and tidy as they go. Exactly as it should be done in any form of commercial catering.

Husband and I often reminisce about jacket potatoes of days gone by! We remember having enormous potatoes, where one would easily serve two people. You never seem to see the huge ones any more.

However, a few weeks ago, I found some really huge ones in the loose baking potatoes bit in Tesco. We were like a couple of over-excited kids at Christmas 😂

They've not had them since, unfortunately.

Aldi have the best sized loosed potato and are only 24p they are huge!!!

I’ve pointed out a number of times that they are the same size as a normal potato now. Or sometimes, with online shopping, you get one huge potato and one small one 🤦‍♀️ M&S (Ocado) have been pretty good though with decent sized ones.

It's too early for jackets this year in the UK so can't be the case. Unless it was really dry last yesr or they are foreign spuds!