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Maris Piper chipping Potatoes

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adpod Posts: 242 Forumite

27 July 2018 at 1:51PM in Old style MoneySaving

Just wondering if anyone knows what the difference is between Maris Piper potatoes that you can get in tescos etc and Maris Piper chipping potatoes which my local wholesale sells.

Im guessing chipping potatoes is what chippys use but this there any real differences?

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ariba10 Posts: 5,432 Forumite

27 July 2018 at 2:04PM

They are the same.

A Marris Piper is a Marris Piper!

I used to be indecisive but now I am not sure.
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adpod Posts: 242 Forumite

27 July 2018 at 2:06PM

ariba10 wrote: »

They are the same.

A Marris Piper is a Marris Piper!

I thought that just wasn't sure why they would call it a chipping potato instead of just maris piper.

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maman Posts: 29,587 Forumite

27 July 2018 at 2:12PM

adpod wrote: »

I thought that just wasn't sure why they would call it a chipping potato instead of just maris piper.

Possibly graded to a size that would go through the cutter in a chip shop?

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k3lvc Posts: 4,174 Forumite

27 July 2018 at 2:15PM

The chipping ones are rectangular so there is no wastage. They do often get bruised corners though

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z1a Posts: 2,522 Forumite

29 July 2018 at 7:32PM

ariba10 wrote: »

They are the same.

A Marris Piper is a Marris Piper!

Yeh, but what about a Maris Piper?

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Clowance Posts: 1,893 Forumite

30 July 2018 at 7:31AM

k3lvc wrote: »

The chipping ones are rectangular so there is no wastage. They do often get bruised corners though

The worst chip shop near me serve 50% shards of chip, so you are paying full price for wastage!

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