Posted on 02/05/2022 12:51:26 PM PST by mylife
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants to know what people think about the size of canned, cubed, white potatoes -- but if you want to know exactly who asked for the change or why this is a priority exercise, you're out of luck.
CFIA launched a month-long consultation on Jan. 21 after saying it had received a request from "industry" to change the maximum allowed size of diced, canned potatoes from 10 millimetres to 20 millimetres.
"Yes, we care about all potatoes -- big and small,"
The tweet was met with great delight by some Twitter users who jumped at the chance to show their proficiency in potato puns.
"I'm afraid most of us will never see eye to eye on this very important and somewhat unapeeling issue," commented Jeany Jerome.
Imagine the fun they might have had if they'd known the size change will affect all grades of canned, diced, white potatoes, including the lowly "Canada standard" grade, the higher-brow "Canada choice" grade, which can't include as many "irregularly shaped units," and the top grade, with the least defective pieces, with the prized label of "Canada Fancy."
Dozens of people replying seemed shocked to discover that canned potatoes existed in any format, but the vast majority deemed it an unusually trivial matter to be concerned about.
"With everything else going on in the world, this issue is small potatoes," a Twitter user named Holly wrote.
For Conservative agriculture critic John Barlow, the consultation is a slap in the face to potato farmers in Prince Edward Island, who haven't been able to sell potatoes to their main export market in the United States for months because of a CFIA decision.
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Prima facie evidence that we have waaaay too much government.
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Trivial issue no matter how you dice it.
Canada, for those that only read the headline.
The PEI farmers are trying to ship their crop to Puerto Rico - Brain Dead Biden has the Borders and Customs Agents refusing potatoes from Canada
They need to hire AOC’s grandma as their on site sales rep.
Watch the product flow.
he worry’s about all the wrong borders.
JERRY: Why would anyone eat canned fruit? I mean can anybody answer that?
GEORGE: What about all the loser stuff?
ELAINE: I don’t know where the rabbi got that. Ya know I never said that. I said “I’ve never seen you looser”.
JERRY: I can see the can if you’re in the army, but fresh fruit it’s available, it’s there, it’s 2 aisles over.
Ship them to China where they can then reroute them to Puerto Rico.
Seriously, they need to freeze dry them. Huge market coming to your neighborhood.
Canned bread makes sense under water.
Love potatoes. Maybe inherited that trait from my Irish grandmother.
I eat potatoes every day. Don’t eat bread. so nice little steamed red potatoes are my starch. Toss them in stews, mash with butter and garlic grains, slice thin in omelets. Am known for best potato salad ever, which I bring to all our potlucks at request of neighbors.
BUT. A CANNED POTATO IS NOT A POTATO.
maybe its different now, but decades ago, it used to be that all the grade #1 of most fruits and vegetables went into cans - grocery store similar items consisted of seconds and culls.
Count me in, never seen them nor would I buy them.
But I do love Canada they always you give gravy with your French fires. Hummm gravy.
But not me.
I’m a You-Tuber.
If the potato chunks are smaller, the more actual product, and less water in the can. Bigger chunks = more water, and less chunks can fit in the can without squishing the product.
Just a way to mask inflation.
BUT. A CANNED POTATO IS NOT A POTATO.
It incarcerated….Free the Potatoes!
I saw it was Canada. My statement still stands.
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Afraid nobody around here
Understands my potato
Think I’m only a spudboy
Looking for a real tomato
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