Supermarket new spuds

At this time of the year Charlotte's are not new potatoes but have been stored since last year.
The longer they are stored, potatoes gain extra natural sugars, which i why chips brown better at this time of the year that those in the late summer and autumn.

Youre very lucky, all the supermarket spuds i buy taste of nothing!

 Small Charlotte and Anya have both appeared in our supermarkets recently. It used to be that potatoes this size were outgraded and fed to pigs. A bit of a con they may be, but they are nice until the proper earlies arrive.

Agree with the over sweetness I bought some charlottes on special offer from T****s revoltingly sweet

Yep, bought from the same supermarket. 

And they started sprouting at the end of the week!!, so planted them and they are happily growing .... waste not want not 

You may well be lucky, particularly if growing at home rather than on an allotment site, but the practice of planting out potatoes bought for eating is really not advised.

Shop bought eating spuds are not certified virus free and it is impossible to tell whether a spud has a virus by sight. 

Once introduced, a virus can spread quickly locally on a site, and you'd not be popular!