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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I would as I think it would be more natural, than the vegetables that have been cleaned with lots of chemicals, which they do in big supermarkets to make them look nice, they also throw out lots of fruit and vegetables if they have been bruised etc as they think they are not up to standard, which is a lot of waste.
I also think muddy vegetables look fresher as they've come straight from the ground I also think they taste better, as I remember when my dad had an allotment and the veg had more taste to the shop bought one's.
A few years back in Morrisons you could buy a big sack of their cheap potatoes, which were lovely and dirty and kept for ages. That doesn't happen now. In fact Morrisons vegetables do not keep at all and are quite disgusting generally.
I presume that, as incognito points out, it's got something to do with EU regulations. However, this doesn't seem to apply in the Mediterranean countries where the veg sold, even in supermarkets is much fresher and there seems to be no regulations on shapes and sizes.
I would too, fakeplastic. My grandpa was a ploughman (in the old days with Clydesdale horses). He used to grow loads of potatoes and other veg too. I always had plenty. They were covered in earth and they were delicious. When my grandpa was no longer able to grow his own vegetables, I started to buy from the supermarket. I felt everything tasted so bland. One day I bought organic potatoes. They were still covered in earth and they tasted just like my Grandpa's.
The potatoes here in Sweden tend to be more muddy and they taste good. My husband says they are grown in the North of Sweden where he comes from. He said it's also to do with the soil they are grown in. Most people in the North have underground potato cellars. They stand isolated - away from the houses in the fields and look a bit like some old air-raid shelters.
Oh Fp please say he wore a brown overall & reckoned up on the corner of paper bags with a stubby pencil? Memories!
Apparently we as customers, say the supermarkets, want our fruit & veg clean,ready-washed & of uniform size. Er, don't recall being asked. I'd much rather have tasty veg with a bit of 'muck' & the knobbly bits - when did you last spot a 'rude' veg? :-) I really don't want my carrots precision measured & lined up thank you - I'm certainly not into designer dinners either - just pile it on & smother it with gravy - lovely!
Noddy, yes he did these things. The vegetables came on a big lorry and were tipped into big hoppers in the shop, complete with mud. He boiled beetroots in a big copper outside (and I love hot beetroots and their smell to this day). The copper was situated next to the mangle! He let me serve and put the money in the till. He also let me eat all the fruit I wanted - and I consumed tomatoes all day long! At the end of the day, he sat at a high stool in the corner of the shop and did all his daily accounts in a little notebook at a small wooden counter. Lovely memories.
Like you Noddy, I hate designer dinners. Loads of veg smothered in real gravy, mmmmm/
Actually, BUNNY, washing veg does make them deteriorate faster. Root vegetables harvested, put into sacks and stored complete with mud in a cool dark place used to last all winter.
Hope I'm not too late too answer.
I loved it when my Mum & Dad used to take us on a PYO outing. By the time we got home, we would be stuffed full of strawberries and raspberries!
When my dad used to grow his own veg, we used to put all the unusual shaped ones on he window sill in the kitchen with little notes underneath with pretend name for them!
One day, everything and everyone will be the same, and won't that be boring...