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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on October 23, 2006, 02:43:49 am

Title: Vegetables
Post by: loulou on October 23, 2006, 02:43:49 am

What is your favourite vegetable? Mine is a parsnip.

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Post by: bethypoos on October 23, 2006, 08:12:20 am

 The fabulous SPROUT!

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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on October 23, 2006, 09:21:49 am

Cauliflower is my favourite, closely followed by sprouts and leeks.

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Post by: goldencup on October 23, 2006, 09:47:24 am

Do mushrooms count?  Otherwise sweetcorn or parsnips.

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Post by: on October 23, 2006, 10:03:29 am

As a fungus, mushrooms are saprophytes and therefore not plants and hence not vegetables.

I have a weakness for parsnips, but I also like fresh beetroot.

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Post by: kevvosa on October 23, 2006, 10:18:02 am

Broccoli and sweetcorn. Do potatoes count? 

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Post by: kevvosa on October 23, 2006, 10:18:40 am

Quote from: bethypoos

 The fabulous SPROUT!

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Post by: on October 23, 2006, 10:19:10 am

Unfortunately not, technically they're a tuber.

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Post by: smurfboy on October 23, 2006, 11:07:47 am

I really like butternut squash.

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Post by: lorri on October 23, 2006, 02:36:26 pm

sprouts  peas and beetroot

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Post by: on October 23, 2006, 03:30:43 pm

Quote from: smurfboy

I really like butternut squash.

That's a fruit not a vegetable.  However, I really like them to.

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Post by: wjp666 on October 23, 2006, 04:56:02 pm

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Post by: smurfboy on October 23, 2006, 06:35:32 pm

Quote from: bounty hunter

Quote from: smurfboy

I really like butternut squash.

That's a fruit not a vegetable.  However, I really like them to.

Like them to what?

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Post by: oldspice on October 23, 2006, 07:04:06 pm

 

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Post by: loulou on October 23, 2006, 07:35:14 pm

bounty stop being such a picky knickers over what's a proper vegetable. loulou39013.7746643519

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Post by: on October 23, 2006, 07:37:09 pm

sorry

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Post by: bethypoos on October 23, 2006, 09:57:24 pm

I've been thinking about this today...

(I really should have more important things on my mind) I can't actually pick because now i think about it i'd add asparagus and courgettes. Then there's also brocolli. I guess I like my greens

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Post by: kevvosa on October 23, 2006, 10:29:04 pm

I had some tinned asparagus recently and it was vile. 

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Post by: loulou on October 23, 2006, 11:32:37 pm

I don't like asparagus much and I steer clear of tinned veg.

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Post by: kevvosa on October 23, 2006, 11:48:14 pm

Asparagus aint cheap. 

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Post by: loulou on October 24, 2006, 01:11:12 am

 How much is it?

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Post by: goldencup on October 24, 2006, 01:17:52 am

I quite like tinned asparagus.

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Post by: smurfboy on October 24, 2006, 01:26:04 am

I've never had it tinned. I love fresh asparagus but Kev is right about the price - it's an occasional treat. I had some battered asparagus once in New York and it was gorgeous

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Post by: goldencup on October 24, 2006, 01:38:36 am

mmmm I'll have to look out for that when I'm there.

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Post by: oldspice on October 24, 2006, 08:11:25 am

I love most vegetable except peas and braod beans. My favourites are fennel, leeks, broccoli and cauliflower. i love corn-on-th-cob too and yes, I know it's not a vegetable but I eat it as such. Same goes for butternut squash.

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Post by: on October 24, 2006, 10:38:05 am

If we can include any edible plant, i.e. vegetable, fruit, tuber, bulb, herb or legume then my top five are:

1. Parsnip

2. Butternut squash

3. Beetroot

4. Mint

5. Persimmon

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Post by: kevvosa on October 24, 2006, 12:23:57 pm

The tinned asparagus I had was 99p, for about 6 mushy sticks of it. It costs about 1.99 fresh. 

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Post by: loulou on October 24, 2006, 05:21:10 pm

That is expensive kev. Bounty what's a persimmon?

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Post by: goldencup on October 24, 2006, 06:11:11 pm

persimmon

n 1: any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros [syn: persimmon tree] 2: orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe

Well Bounty did say he was including fruit.

 

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Post by: oldspice on October 24, 2006, 06:52:01 pm

A true persimmon is almost inedible unless cooked (poached) because it is extremely astringent.  About 30 or so years ago, the Agricultural Export Company of Israel, whose brand name is Carmel, developed a sweet-tasting persimmon that can be eaten without needing to be poached. It is now known as the Sharon Fruit (Sharon meaning vinyard of the Lord). Only Carmel persimmons are allowed to be called Sharon Fruits.

I was among the first Sharon Fruit buyers in the country back then.

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Post by: kevvosa on October 24, 2006, 07:32:39 pm

Never tasted sharon fruit, is it nice?   
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Post by: on October 24, 2006, 09:05:39 pm

Really nice and sweet.  True persimmon are edible after being attacked by a severe frost and becoming slightly rotten!