We've Been Conned!!
Fuming! I am so disappointed! I usually get most of my fruit and veg from my local greengrocer, but Tesco was advertising Jersey Royal potatoes at half price, so stupidly, bought from them instead. YUK! They were disgusting. Nothing like the Jersey Royal is meant to taste.
What on earth has happened to the taste of those once beautiful Jersey Royal potatoes that most people longed for the season to be here, just so they could look forward to the easy scraping and divine taste? when they first went on sale in our shops. I was always first in the queue. They were so yum, one only had to touch them for the skins to fall away, They really had the most beautiful, distinctive taste that let you know they were indeed the genuine Jersey Royal? I loved them so much, all sense went out of the window when it came to paying money for them and the bag to help myself would always be overflowing in the end, didn’t care, Jersey Royals with a knob of real butter couldn’t be beaten.
However, the crappy potatoes they class as Jersey Royals now are a disgrace! I have always known that growers in Jersey grow the potatoes on slopes with seaweed mixed in when planting. But guess what? No longer grown with seaweed! In fact, the vile potatoes sold as JR’s could have been grown literally anywhere!.
So no more Jersey Royals for me. I have bought Pembrokeshire new potatoes instead. They are lovely, as are the Charlottes when they come into season.
Such a shame. Has anyone else been disappointed with the taste of JR’s?