Jacket potatoes used to be way bigger?

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DH and I both convinced the baking potatoes you can buy these days are far smaller than years ago.

Has shrinkflation spread to agriculture or are we both greedy bastards?

YABU - potatoes aren't getting smaller, that's insane.
YANBU - the conspiracy is real.

They seem fine to me. They are the size they grow.

I don’t know, they seem pretty big to me when we buy them?

They probably cream off the bigger ones and sell them for more as 'jumbo spuds' or something

I bought a bag of baking potatoes last week. Every one was tiny! You can still buy decent sized ones loose in Sainsbury’s (if they have them) but the packs are scandalous.

You seem to only get big ones in cafes.

Completely agree. They are tiny now! I would happily pay for a ‘jumbo jacket potato’ but they aren’t to be found anywhere

Yes, I find only the ones labelled extra large are a good size. Ordinary baking potatoes are about the size of a tennis ball.

They used to be monsters! One potato would be plenty. And the skins were thicker too.

I agree! When you’d buy a 4 pack of baking potatoes, they’d always be a really decent sized jacket. I need two to fill me now! I’d rather pay a bit more for a good sized spud tbh! Always choose the single ones so I can pick good sized spuds.

I buy a sack from Costco, they are ginormous. But I agree, the ones you get in the supermarket are just big not jacket spud size.

Just like Mars Bars, now tiny. I know what you mean about potatoes. If you buy from farm shops, there's more size variety. Supermarkets buy for uniformity. I wonder if the huge potatoes are seized by the people who run stalls in markets and bonfire night events.

This might be where we've been going wrong, the 4 pack from Sainsburys is our standard.

Yes! Also, eggs! I've always bought 'large' and the ones you get these days definitely would have been classed as 'medium' 10 years ago.

Hmmm - I buy them loose so there’s usually a range of sizes and I pick the ones I want.

Eta - ah, I can se you mean the bag of 4. Yeah, they probably don’t want to put the price up so they make them tiny and now you just need to buy twice as many 🙄

This

This is DH's point. They are always huge in canteens but underwhelming at home. We need to find a better potato dealer.

Yanbu we always have 2 each now

Baking potatoes in my local Tesco are no bigger than the ordinary general purpose spuds.

Yes! Proper huge and thick skinned. I can only assume in the noughties when we lived off them for school lunches there were lighter laws on some pesticides or similar.

The multi packs are usually smaller sized, but you just pick the size you want if sold loose. I think the small ones are the ideal portion size when you think what most people's TDEE is. They are a plenty big enough portion for a reasonable sized meal

Hard agree op - l eat them all the time - def smaller

Yes the skins! I haven’t changed anything about how I cook them, and never get that proper hard crispy shell now 😓😓😓

I'm pregnant, DH is over 6ft and had a full day on his feet on the wards. Our TDEEs cannot and will not be contained by a measly standard sized potato.

The big ones are sold loose

We've had good results with a 20min microwave / spray of oil and salt / 20min air-fry routine. But still not quiiiiite the same.