Some strange shaped ones in those bags!

Voted hot to show support of this scheme....having seen the amount of wonky veg that's destroyed because it's not the right shape I'm all for supporting farmers and buying these misfits....

Those in post No 1 are just standard potatoes though!

These are proper wonky ones. :smile:

Normally this would be a good deal, but currently Morrisons have 1.5KG bags of white washed potatoes on offer at just 32p. Tesco also have their potatoes on offer at 2.5kg for £1 which is the same price, but standard ( not wonky) variety

Are these still available does anybody know please

Lovely wonky tatties, ta op.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ7Fjsr6Ebk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7WLW-l6BPk&app=desktop

On a program I saw, think it was on BBC, they showed a picture of a JCB type machine tipping veg trimmings onto a waste pile claiming this was Wonky Veg going to land fill. Anything to back up their story.

Got a 20kg sack of normal potatoes from Makro for £2.99 so who wants mis shapes that's hard to peel for more money? no ta. cold for me

these should be a £1...greedy supermarkets again

Why dont they just make these misshapen veg packs mandatory for immigrant food vouchers users? Problem solved.

There was a programme on bbc that said otherwise not so long ago. Nice to hear some inside info. Seemed an astronomical amount of wastage if true

bought some a couple of weeks ago none were wonky just normal and went green in a couple of days

i really love these pictures - thanks for posting!

Trying to work out in my own mind the value of the wonky veg deals from supermarkets. The idea is superb and I hate the thought of good vegetables going to waste for cosmetic imperfections. Are the big supermarkets offering better value though for wonky veg when compared to the non-wonky veg offered by discount supermarkets? Mulling this over and would value any feedback as I can be a touch cynical about the marketing ploys of supermarkets and large organisations in general. This is in the context of aldi weekly veg offers and lidl selling four different veg at 39p (though not necessarily 39p per kilo) each week.

It also goes to make animal feed and even electricity. Only that which can't be used, a tiny portion, goes to landfill and is turned into useful compost. And, as i mentioned earlier, if you eat wonky veg, non-wonky veg goes uneaten so you are not reducing waste in the slightest. If you prefer the taste, go for it but don't delude yourself into thinking you are saving the planet.

For something that would normally go straight to landfill , how do they justify the £2! Should be cheaper

You must be new here then.

peanuted.
Engage your brain.
The veg washing costs
The transport costs
The packing costs
The shelf-space costs
The till attendant costs
The overheads costs
The credit card fees
Are all the same!
So, even if the farmer supplied the wonky veg for free, they still not be free in the shops!
Get it?

Whilst you're at it, tell Hugh thingy-thing as well.
He can't do his sums either

Got a bag of these and have found them to be much better than the normal tats but at a cheaper price. :smiley:

Jip

Have you got any links to any studies on this, or an idea on what I should be searching the net for. I've been looking for articles but only found ones saying nitrites exposed to extreme heat can be problematic. Oddly most things I've found seem to think the nitrogen levels in vegetables are a good thing - like this.

Wonky veg.... OK... but I want taste and quality at a keen price... or I won't wonky buy it

It's nice to see wonky people with their wonky thoughts, living wonky lives.. Willy Wonky's :wink:

I bought two bags of these last weekend. They aren't at all wonky, the odd knot/small blemish but no more than you'd expect in a bag. They're Maris Pipers, so not just generic "white potatoes".

no1 really talks about this stuff in UK... so no1 really knows,same thing with Palm oil ( people just being brainswashed that it's bad because other trees are chopped down to plant them but no1 tells you it's bad because it fu.ks with your heart ) The food quality in UK is just CRIMINAL, Hence I'm a big fan of aldi/lidl which sells mostly imported german food where the standards are much more strict.

This pretty much explained it.
I come from a family who has been growing spuds commercially for past 80years and we grow a special field for our own consumption where we don't put in all the crap in them to make them nice and big,they grow a bit slower/are much smaller and no1 would buy them from us just because they don't look ''normal and huge'' , but the difference is just mindblowing in taste/texture/colour.

Do you know how that translates to "don't eat large potatoes"? Nitrate toxicity is a thing of course but I'm pretty sure lettuce and spinach will always have higher levels than potatoes.

I'm curious as to where this advice came from.

Nitrates are a form of nitrogen that plants can easily absorb. Nitrogen is essential for plant growth, but it can be very dangerous when present at high levels in humans. Within our bodies, nitrates lower the ability of the red blood cells to carry and deliver oxygen.

fail price....
Btw don't buy the super super large potatoes=means they are grown with sooooooooo much nitrogen you wouldn't want them in your diet or even touch them.

If you buy these wonky potatoes, some standard ones will have to go to landfill in their place. Think of the poor standard potatoes!

Good price I would happily pay this price thanks for posting

What makes you think i'm a fan of you? But, yes, i was trolling. I grow my own potatoes and get some truly odd shapes.

Nope, but kudos on the attempt.
So, trolls are potato fans? Who'd have thunk it.

Now, i concede that is a fair point.

made(full stop) (Upper case B)ut(comma) if we're looking in that depth(comma)

Bought these , awful potatoes , had to bin most of them , black , big brown patches , had to cut over half of each potatoe away!! Wouldn't take them for free

​no need for the 'fools' comment

Yes. Everybody has an opinion, but it would be hard to argue that "red wine" is generally better than "pinot noir" (or "cabernet sauvignon" for that matter). It is an amazingly clever point you've made, but if we're looking in that depth: you may wish to put your full stops after your quotation marks. Even if copy and pasting from a google search.

Bargain

And saying all the people who do not think it's a good deal should not comment isn't rude?

André Tchelistcheff declared that "God made Cabernet Sauvignon whereas the devil made Pinot noir." The point i was making was that it's not true that it's 'only' not a good deal if the identical product can be found cheaper elsewhere.

​no need for the rude comments!!!!!

Yep. And?
"white potatoes" are to "maris pipers" what "red wine" is to "pinot noir".

It's only not a good deal if you can find the equivalent type of potato for less. Otherwise "Fallout 4" for £20 isn't cheap on PS4, cos another PS4 game is £5.

Wut!!? So only people who think it's a good deal are allowed to comment. We still have free speech in this country. I suppose you'd also like to get rid of the cold button so only people who think it's hot are allowed to vote.

Agreed that reducing waste a good idea , but there's no way I am going to pay more, for second grade produce.

applaud the idea but their carrots went off within 2 days all mushy and smelly and some of the potatoes in the bags of wonky
veg were already off in the store. Great idea but standards are low

Or maybe the thick ones are those that think they go to waste. What do you think goes into, soups, stews, mash etc?

Why are fools voting this a hot deal when it clearly isn't? See post No1.

"Wonky" its that the new buzz word for normal fruit n veg?

Voted hot to show support of this scheme....having seen the amount of wonky veg that's destroyed because it's not the right shape I'm all for supporting farmers and buying these misfits....

Soups up, good find op, heat added

Possibly the nicest thing I've been called today. :stuck_out_tongue:

Some strange shaped ones in those bags!

Normally this would be a good deal, but currently Morrisons have 1.5KG bags of white washed potatoes on offer at just 32p. Tesco also have their potatoes on offer at 2.5kg for £1 which is the same price, but standard ( not wonky) variety