Potatoes at rock bottom price

Today, Sunday, I went out shopping, even though it was bitterly cold in the afternoon.

I went to PRISMA and I saw a sight that in all my life I have never seen before in Finland.

Potatoes are the staple food of Finns. They consume it in many ways - plain boiled potatoes, mashed, fried, roasted, grilled, sliced, curried, etc. Any way you think you can prepare potatoes - that is an accepted way.

So when I came across the price of Euro 0.99 for a 10 kg sack, it is a price I have never ever seen in my 26 years in Finland.

In our book "Handbook for Survival in Finland" published in 1994, the lowest price reported for a 10 kg sack of potatoes is 15.90 Finn marks, which is Euro 2.70. This price of today is almost a third of that lowest price which I had noted between 1984 and 1994!

The farmers must be having a real hard time, as this was a sack of Quality 1 potatoes which they must have harvested late summer or early autumn. Such a price would hardly give them the price of fertiliser they would have used to produce this crop,

Though I feel sad for the farmers, it is good for those on the hunt for value for money.

If you want to live like a Finn, then switch to potatoes, pick up a few bags, and enjoy the various delicious ways you can prepare this carbohydrate! At € 0.10 a kg, you can certainly experiment all you want.

Considering I earned a 10% bonus on my purchases of today using my PRISMA card, that wored out at € .90 for 10 kg or E 0.09 for a kg of potatoes)

Can anyone tell me whether you can pick up potatoes at this price (Rs. 5.85 per kg) in India?