"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "Janet" > wrote in message
>> t...
>>> In article >,
>>> says...
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>>>> 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
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>> Those are smaller than new, I think. We can get them but not every store
>> has them and only perhaps once a year.
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> Maybe they're just cut to a small size regular potatoes, like the *baby*
> carrots. ;-)
No. I was going to say that they were creamer potatoes but had a feeling
that someone would say that was wrong. But then sw confirmed it. But what
the "creamer" refers to, I do not know.