"Jude" > wrote

> Once, when I was single and living by myslef. I got laughed at by the
> grocery stiore clerk for buying 1 potato. "A single potato? never seen
> anybody buy that before. What's a person gonna do with one single
> potato? Damn, hahahahahahaha....!"
>
> Well gee, I was gonna take it home and bake it and put butter and sour
> cream and chives and cheese into it. I thought it was a good, easy,
> frugal, college-kid dinner. But it sure made me feel silly!

That's a funny story.

> Nowadays, nobody laughs at me when I buy my 3 potatoes! (I get
> yellowfinns in 5 lb sacks and red potatoes in 3 lb bags, but my
> baking(russet) potatoes i buy loose when I need em. Never can buy one
> without thinking of that day, though.

I buy baking potatoes loose, too. Usually I will buy more than one;
if I'm going to bake one, why not 2? Then there are stuffed potatoes
from the leftovers, cooks up right quick.

Also, the potatoes I buy for baking, they are Enormous. Right off
the bat they are easily 2 potatoes in one.

But, this week a bag of potatoes was 5 lbs, buy one get one free.
Well ... 10 lbs of potatoes is a lot for me, but I'll try to use them up
before they go bad, and I wasn't about to leave my free potatoes at
the store, right?

Since you reminded me, I'm off to boil up some eggs to make
potato salad later. Thanks.

nancy