Moldy Poatoes! *warning vent*

[Kiwi]

K brought home some potatoes from a food market we go to as a last resort.

They were the pre-washed ready to use kind and be being me, I washed them anyway.
I noticed that around the tiny eyes of the potatoes there was PINK MOLD!!!!

I got K to check just in case I was going insane and then pulled some of my older white potatoes from our root vege bin and none of them had mold on them. I needed more than we had on hand to finish dinner (company was coming) so we hot foot it back to the store to get a refund.

We get to the return area and there was a mature (in age only) woman there, and K explains that the Potatoes he brought about an hour ago have pinkish mold on the skin where the eyes are. She rolls her eyes and huffs while she calls the produce manager. Then she starts explaining that ALL white potatoes come that way and "you young people never cook so you wouldn't know that" then she tells us that mold is green or black NEVER pink and we are probably just "seeing something that isn't there"

WTFOMGBBQASL!!!!!!!

I replied that none of our other white potatoes had ever come with mold when we brought them at blank food market and she rolls her eyes and huffs again then says the produce manager is coming out to explain it to us. I tell her not to waste his time or ours and to just process the return. Now K and I had both checked the potatoes and there was clearly mold on them!

Seriously what I wanted to do was to say in a LOUD clear voice

"SO YOUR PERFECTLY FINE WITH SELLING MOLDY FOOD THEN"

but I didn't, mostly because I was so angry that I was scared if I started blowing off steam I wouldn't be able to stop.

so you bitter, jaded, hag of a worker

1. I freaking KNOW what moldy food looks like
2. maybe your children don't cook, but I have been making my family meals since I was 14
3. take your aged, foolish and ignorant opinions and shove them up your crabby old arse
4. give me my money, do your job and shut the F up
5. when someone tells you a product you have is moldy, and it actually IS then you could perhaps be grateful that now you can pull that product instead of having a lawsuit slapped on you for selling MOLDING FREAKING FOOD!

When I work, even if I disagree with a customer I shut my goddamn trap because as long as its within policy my job is to do as I am asked. So is yours! We were not rude to you, we asked for a refund for a defective product so suck it up and do your freaking job.

sorry... she really pushed my buttons...

[laundryhater]

Don't leave us hanging...did you get your refund when all was said and done? I hope you asked for a manager after she pulled that crap.

[Kiwi]

oh yes sorry I did get the refund and we went to our usual food market and got the exact same type of potato sans mold pink or otherwise

the Dinner also turned out very well, in fact were having the same people over next friday and Im making lamb... also with non moldy potaoes!

[auntiem]

I live in the land of mold and I can tell you that mold and fungus come in many colors - not just green and black. But I've never seen pink mold on any of my potatoes.
I've never seen prewashed potatoes before maybe the pink was a reaction to the washing liquid? Potatoes are nearly as bad as apples in terms of chemical exposure maybe there was some bizzare chemical reaction.
Either way, I would have taken them back too.

[Nurian]

I've heard of something like this. It's called "Pink Rot" which I believe is a fungal infection. Regardless, something I wouldn't want to eat.

[PepperElf]

mold is green or black NEVER pink

hell the same bit of mold can change colors too once it's older... yeah.

they were idiots and ... i'm not surprised they're your "last resort" store.

[RedRoseSpiral]

You were right in taking them back.Potato Pink Rot

[BlaqueKatt]

then she tells us that mold is green or black NEVER pink and we are probably just "seeing something that isn't there"

hmmm working in a lab that tests food for pathogens and mold spores I wonder what this woman would think about our silver "mold"-yes it's metallic silver, it's colony growth of salmonella.

[Munkie]

i used to work on a potato farm, and one of the jobs i had to do beyond sorting potatoes, was to look for infections on them. Pink mold comes before the soggy nasty-smell of rotting potato. Another is silver-skin, which while not harmful to the potato itself, it is a bacterial infection on the skin and can be transferred to clean soil. Not good when you sell seed potatoes... Green skin on a potato means the potato has been exposed to sunlight for too long and is toxic to humans. It can be peeled off, and the green parts excised, because it only affects the damaged part, and then used for whatever. Another one is the scabbed over, long lines of dark brown skin... that means a worm had crawled over the potato and eaten those parts of the skin. Also harmless, just visually unappealing. Potatoes are nature's vitamins - eat as many as you can with the skin on, just clean them thoroughly.

[Pagan]

hmmm working in a lab that tests food for pathogens and mold spores I wonder what this woman would think about our silver "mold"-yes it's metallic silver, it's colony growth of salmonella.

Ooooh....that sounds cool! Picture?

[Bella_Vixen]

The potato lover in me is sad and wants to

[Ironclad Alibi]

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[Calie]

...mold is green or black NEVER pink...

My college roommate and I can attest to the fact that mold comes in a wide variety of shades, shapes, textures, and smells. Unfortunately that knowledge comes from way too much experience.

[dalesys]

...well, I think it's broccoli ... why's this broccoli pink?

Lou & Peter Berryman - When Did We Have Sauerkraut? about cleaning the regurgitator refrigerator.