Jacket potatoes used to be way bigger?

[midnights92]

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.

Yes they were bigger

recently had a jacket potato at a food market it was a big one as it should be 😊 so good done in the oven skin slightly crispy

ridiculous price but was so delicious I didn’t care

It's possible. I've never real mastered small cow, far away cow.

We buy our potatoes by the sack from the farm down the road, and I can assure you that potatoes still come in all shapes and sizes. Any change to 'jacket' potatoes sizes in the supermarket is undoubtedly down to shrinkflation and profiteering by the supermarkets themselves. Buying potatoes in a 4 pack of 'jacket' potatoes is a very expensive way of buying what is still a relatively cheap product!

Some years ago I went to a wedding reception after a winter wedding. Groom’s family were farmers and the food was an enormous floury baked potato, a table spread with anything and everything you could ever think of putting on a baked potato and some salad. That potato set the standard for me - and no, supermarket spuds don’t meet the standard these days!

I can remember when potatoes came in three options
old- washed (expensive)
old- unwashed (cheap)
new- very expensive

for jacket spuds you just found one the size you wanted.

Egg size.... older hens lay progressively bigger egg. They also start laying less eggs as they age. So they get killed and replaced at 13 months. That's why there are rarely huge eggs for sale. :(

Ive kept chickens for years, and know this to be true. Our older ladies lay biiig eggs

If you want a crispy skin, butter them up using the butter paper, 8 mins in the microwave then 30 mins in a high oven oven

I always buy them loose and they’re fine. Buying the 4 in a pack baked potatoes will leave you very disappointed.

This is very true.

Corn on the cobs also more like baby sweetcorn now.

Bugger being a drug dealer..think I'll become a tattie dealer
County tattie line.😁👍

We've just had a very dry summer & that's given poor yields of a whole range of crops.

Don't know anything about potato farming but I know a lot about other arable crops (barley, wheat, Lucerne) and it's been dreadful. Yield has been down hugely - some farmers I know it's 30% of what they normally produce.

I would have thought the dry conditions would have had same effect on potatos & affected yield - to put it simply there will be less of them & the ones they do have will be smaller & lighter

Ffs