Vegetable

Rooster

B tier

Rooster is Ireland's modern red-skinned, yellow-fleshed favourite—floury enough for fluffy mash and roast potatoes with a distinctive taste Irish households defend fiercely. Oval tubers and pink-red skins are easy to spot in the shop. It largely replaced older floury types on Irish supermarket shelves within a generation. Mash with butter and milk, roast for Sunday lunch, or bake as jackets. Less waxy than salad reds. A cultural default as much as a cultivar choice on the island, and increasingly known among diaspora shoppers seeking that specific mash texture.