Feest Isolation Days –8 March 2021
How much longer will we wash the vegetables and fruit when they arrive by our key person delivery man each Friday? I suspect for a long time to come! This week the baking potatoes I ordered arrived and they looked like they’d just been dug up. I suppose I should be grateful, but I moaned as it takes ages to clean all the dirt off potatoes. However, not only am I going to get used to it, but armed with more information I won’t complain anymore! Mud is good for me and my potatoes! Tesco’s did a trial in stores in Bristol to see how people responded to muddy spuds. Apparently my fellow Bristolians were impressed. Tesco approved and now plan to sell muddy spuds in all their stores.
What I didn’t know before reading about this, is that mud protects the shelf life of spuds. When covered in dirt, potatoes are not exposed to light. That means that they don’t produce chlorophyll and won’t turn green! It means my potatoes are going to last longer. Knowing that, I’ll certainly keep up the newly acquired habit of washing everything when it comes through the door, and when I finally get to pick my own spuds off of a supermarket shelf, they will be covered in dirt!
And on yet other important potato matter, in America, Hasbros, the toy manufacturer, created quite a stir this week when it decided that in the interest of gender equality, it would no longer identify their well known toy as Mr. Potato Head. From now on, it will be merely Potato Head. Hasbros have managed where the Congress could not…they have united Republicans and Democrats! Apparently nobody likes this idea! The Republicans couldn’t agree to an economic stimulus package with the Democrats, but all appear to share the common interest of what to call Potato Head – Mr. I find it extraordinary that there was even one poll done about this issue that asked for party affiliation! I wonder where these two groups stand on cleanliness of spuds – washed or muddy?
Today, kids all over England, some eight million of them, are heading back to school. They will be offered Covid tests twice weekly in school for the first two weeks and then they will be given tests to do at home. One of our grandsons is excited about going back to school and reckoned it will be a great week. He also figures that by this time next week it will just be, well, school again!
Enjoy! Stay safe. The pandemic isn’t over yet but we are getting there!
With love,
Kathy x