This probably not the best place to post this, but I don't want to subscribe
to another group for a single question.

Last week we bought some red potatoes from Tesco and have had a long weekend
break from eating them. This evening three of the remainder were found to
have large soft patches and to be oozing an evil smelling, thin brown
liquid. One of these had only a small bad patch so I thought to cut it away,
the cut revealed a cluster of brown spots rather like lettering in a stick
of rock. The spots ran the whole way through the quite large potato so it
was discarded.

I have never seen the like in 70 years; can anyone tell me what would cause
this (NOT global warming please!)

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Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
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