No Hope For My Alien Potatoes
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (106560)
United States
June 12, 2021 2:41pm CST
Sometimes it just happens.
Luckily it is rare for me. But from time to time I buy a bag of potatoes, and it is not necessarily that I forget about them. I just forget to do something with them. Bake them, fry them up, cut them up and bake them seasoned in the oven, or whatever other use I might come up with.
Today, with brats on the grill, and knowing my potatoes were turning into aliens in the bag, I decided to make a batch of my creamy potato salad. But lo and behold as I started to fish through the bag to find a good 3 pounds, it wasn't just that they were rooting, which is easily solved. Many of them were moldy and a couple were wet and soggy.
So, it was a no. Danggummit! I had to throw the bag away. It's only about $3 down the tubes. But it is still $3 and it still irks me to no end. But, it is what it is.
Luckily it is not the most expensive item in the pantry.
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@kaylachan (79296)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Jun 21
I hate when that happens. You buy something and forget about it. Then you've wasted what you spent. Doesn't matter if it's large or small, it's still a waste of money that could've otherwise gone elsewhere.
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@lovebuglena (47478)
• Staten Island, New York
12 Jun 21
I hate when that happens. I keep my potatoes and onions in the pantry in a storage bin. Sometimes I forget they are even there. No matter the amount, it is money wasted that could've been used on something else.
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@lovebuglena (47478)
• Staten Island, New York
14 Jun 21
@porwest I keep my onions in the pantry. If I use an onion but not all of it then I put it in an onion saver and put it in the fridge.
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@porwest (106560)
• United States
16 Jun 21
@lovebuglena I keep saying I am going to switch how I store onions, but have yet to do it. Although I will say my onions keep just fine in the crisper.
@Vikingswest1 (7444)
• United States
12 Jun 21
When potatoes are threatening to go bad here, I plant them out back in a mound.
Sometimes I remember to dig them up.
Alien Potatoes sounds like a good name for a band.
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@Vikingswest1 (7444)
• United States
14 Jun 21
@porwest
Sometimes. If they aren't too far gone.
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@porwest (106560)
• United States
14 Jun 21
@Vikingswest1 I may try this one of these days. What do I have to lose?
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@LindaOHio (199219)
• United States
13 Jun 21
You're right. Sometimes it just happens. We have a ton of potatoes; and we can't use them all. Some are bound to go bad. We got 2 bags of them from the senior program that passes out food once a month. I love potatoes; but there's only so many that you can eat.
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@LindaOHio (199219)
• United States
7h
@porwest Wow this was quite a while ago. Now I have no potatoes.
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@porwest (106560)
• United States
6h
@LindaOHio I might have some in the pantry as we speak sprouting arms and legs. lol
@GardenGerty (165549)
• United States
12 Jun 21
I do agree that I hate it when that happens.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
12 Jun 21
I know what you mean. I so love potatoes I will often eat them alone. So I have my daughter buy them but because I never go into the kitchen, I often forget they are in there for me to ask her to fix me so at times they get tossed 
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