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Default Boiled red potato weirdness

On 8/17/2015 11:05 PM, Xeno wrote:
> On 16/08/2015 3:43 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> > wrote in message
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>>> Normally I boil rose potatoes for potato salad, but there were none
>>> to be found last week. So these were mill-run red potatoes. I set
>>> the water boiling as I scrubbed them and dug out the eyes. When the
>>> water
>>> boiled I chucked them in.
>>>
>>> They were done after 30 some minutes, so I drained and peeled them.
>>> To my surprise, the stem ends of almost all of them had acquired an
>>> unpleasant black hue. I cut them off, but why?

>>
>> Stem ends?

>
> Yes, where the rest of the plant attaches to the potato beneath the ground.
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> http://tinyurl.com/q4zzxhu
> http://tinyurl.com/nhlrq6p
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Mmmm hmmm...