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.?

There's a jacket potato stall just taken up residence in the local shops car park, and after reading this thread, Im visiting it this week :)

Spud with butter £5
Toppings between 50p and £1.60

Used to love Spudulike back in the 90's. A really good cheap filling meal

In the eighties, when jacket potatoes first became a staple offering of cafes and food vans (in response the eighties zeitgeist of Carbs are good for you, stuff them down), they were always massive rugby ball affairs.

They are definitely much smaller now. The supermarket spuds marketed as being for baking are often also small.

Defeats the point really. Who wants a J-poh that is the size of a roast potato?

ww have been having jacket potatoes over the last few years and rarely do we have anything approaching the size of the ones we all
remember from years ago.

If they’re on the small side I just do one and a half each. But yes, I’ve noticed that in the bags of Asda Red potatoes I usually buy, there are a lot fewer baking-size ones.

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Well I am trying this one day this week , sounds banging !

Those bags are rubbish. You need to buy loose ones. Supermarkets are good but you need to hit the markets for really big ones.

I try to buy them loose but sometimes buy packs online and if you choose the more expensive large sized ones they're almost too big and sometimes have cracked voids inside. Ocado usually aren't bad for baking potatoes, though sometimes they are rotten.

And might be cheaper in the end than buying a pack when some are rotten or the wrong size.

Why is spud man an arsehole? @simsbustinoutmimi

OP I think it depends on the pack of potatoes. I got a back of Maris piper potatoes in Aldi the other day and they were massive. They weren't even baking potatoes but they were huge.

On cooking time, sometimes I cut a potato into wedges and cook in the air fryer and have with chillie / cheese and onion just because it's faster to cook

Yes, there are often a few large enough ones in these Tesco Maris Piper bags. Lovely potatoes too.

It's okay @simsbustinoutmimi seen your post about spudman

I think the spuds in the bags of 4 are getting smaller, so they can sell less weight but still 4. Loose spuds is the way to go for big meal-sized potatoes.