Purple potatoes?
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Purple potatoes?
I'm seeing purple potatoes in the stores now. Anyone know anything about them? What's the point?
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Re: Purple potatoes?
Are they just red skinned, or purple all the way through?
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They are not even remotely red - they are a deep purple, much like an eggplant. No idea if they are purple inside. The label on them calls them 'purple potatoes.'
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Must be from Australia.slinky wrote:The label on them calls them 'purple potatoes.'
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Why Australia? Do you know what they are?
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Re: Purple potatoes?
beets
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Re: Purple potatoes?
Nope. Not beets. They look just like regular potatoes except they are a deep purple color. It's bizarre. I might have to buy some just to see what the heck they are!Lili Von Shtupp wrote:beets
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Snowy mountains, shark bay, big sandy desert, Big Wet, purple potatoes...
More common than you think. It's just the skin. If they're sort of long and thin they make great chips.
More common than you think. It's just the skin. If they're sort of long and thin they make great chips.
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Unless it's the Okinawa Sweet Potato you've found
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could be ube
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I bought some the other day, they are purple inside too.
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Do they taste any different than regular potatoes? (If not, what's the point?)
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Ask the Maker. Or blame evolution.slinky wrote:Do they taste any different than regular potatoes? (If not, what's the point?)
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Re: Purple potatoes?
If you go to South America there are about 500 hundred varieties of potato or something. There's probably a potato of every colour.
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There is according to K's link. Apparently the purple ones were saved for the Inca kings.Burbage wrote:If you go to South America there are about 500 hundred varieties of potato or something. There's probably a potato of every colour.
It's just not something I've seen before and noticed them in 2 different stores this week. Maybe I'll give 'em a try sometime.
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So we can do a "Climatologist Causation"
Inca kings ate purple potatoes.
All Inca kings are dead.
Ergo: Purple potatoes are lethal.
Inca kings ate purple potatoes.
All Inca kings are dead.
Ergo: Purple potatoes are lethal.
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Good point, maybe I'll give 'em a missBurbage wrote:So we can do a "Climatologist Causation"
Inca kings ate purple potatoes.
All Inca kings are dead.
Ergo: Purple potatoes are lethal.
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you wouldn't want to be a Purple tater Eater
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Yummy roasted
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I think that the most common carrot colour was NOT orange but something else (it's purple - i checked it up). People selected the orange colour because they liked it and now it is the predominant colour for carrots.
I'm sure the purple colour would serve some use in its lifecycle. - can't be for nothing.
I'm sure the purple colour would serve some use in its lifecycle. - can't be for nothing.
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You'd be surprised, there's lots of things on this world for no reason at all. We'll start with http://www.singapore-forum.com.....
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Re: Purple potatoes?
Purple Potatoes are readily available here in NY. Thy are originally from Peru and are naturally that color. When I served them a while back to my very German father he got upset. Why are they purple? Did you dye them? They are funny. Why did you not buy normal potatoes...
Do they taste any different. Hmn... Maybe a little but quite frankly they do not deserve the exorbitant price you pay for them here...
Do they taste any different. Hmn... Maybe a little but quite frankly they do not deserve the exorbitant price you pay for them here...