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writes:
>In article >,
> Kathleen > wrote:
>
>> I'm planning to make potato salad to take to a family party over the
>> holidays and I was intrigued by the purple spuds at the store. If I
>> make the salad with a mixture of red skinned and purple potatoes, will
>> the purple ones do anything rude, like turning the entire dish gray?
>>
>> Kathleen
>>
>
>Don't.
>
>Might be "cute" but purple potatoes are the most disgusting spuds on the
>market.
>
>They taste just like dirt. :-P
>
>Just MHO.....

if they were all blue potatoes, they must have been old or improperly
stored

or maybe you forgot to wash them

the all blues I got from Alden Farms of Monroe, WA, were great, very
flavorful... not the dirt kind of flavor... it probably helps that they
are organic