The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169503   Message #4140285
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Apr-22 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: The other recipe thread is too long
Subject: RE: BS: The other recipe thread is too long
I've just found out that you can't buy Jersey Royal potatoes outside Jersey and the UK. In m'humble they are by far the finest new potatoes you can buy. I remember an occasion in Bury, gotta be forty or fifty years ago. We'd rolled out of the pub after a jolly fine piss-up, and there in Kay Gardens was a chap selling hot potatoes in paper bags from his little wagon. They were Jerseys, all hot and salty. Bejaysus, I can taste them still. Only three things in life are certain: birth, death and the fact that that chap is now sitting at the right hand of his Father in heaven...