Neil Young and Misinformation

From the Los Angeles Times:

[Neil Young's] own track record isn’t spotless. In 1985, as AIDS was overwhelming American gay communities, Young used a homophobic slur in an interview and said of gays and the virus, “You go to a supermarket and you see a f— behind the f— cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

Yikes!

Is Young talking about the tubers you get from the produce department at the grocery store to boil, bake, fry, and mash, or is he using "handle your potatoes" as a euphemism?

Either way, it's awful.