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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> There is a restaurant in a hotel near us. The restaurant has had it's
>> ups and downs.
> Got a new chef, manager recently. We decided to give it a try for a
> little birthday dinner. I had the duck breast, and it was wonderful.
> The best thing was the vegetable served with it. It was tiny, tender
> Brussels sprouts and teeny-tiny potatoes. I have never seen potatoes
> that small, they were about 1 inch across.
>
> Don't they sell those in US supermarkets?
>
> In UK they are called (and sold as) "new potatoes", the first of the
> season's crop, very tender and delicious.
>
> Janet UK

Those are smaller than new, I think. We can get them but not every store
has them and only perhaps once a year.