They’re back.
Bigger, knobblier and mercifully blight-free.
“The Lumper potato, which gets its name from its knobbly appearance, had not been commercially cultivated since the potato famine in the 1840s when it was virtually wiped out. Glens of Antrim, a family run business operating for 41 years in the rural town of Cushendall in Co. Antrim, have set out about bring it back in to production.”
They’re no Skerries’ roosters, in fairness
Lumper potato returns to Marks and Spencer Ireland (Shelflife.ie)
Related: Antrim farmer revives Irish famine potato (BBC)
Pic: National Geographic
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