What's happened to vegetables?

[PK99]

Ok

Gonna need a little more help here

the vegetable most folks refer to as broccoli with a compact head is actually calabrese true broccoli is sprouting broccoli

 

[Levo-Lon]

Far out man....

I chocked on my musli

 

[Levo-Lon]

Well nearly every tv show is a cooking program these days so its most likely down to that.

I love veg as it happens especially kale

 

[Drago]

I ate a vegetable once.

 

[screenman]

We like trying new veggies in this house, still use the oldies favourites as well.

I do not get all this, it is the money men thing.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The new ones are other people's old ones now available here.

Given, iirc, our only indigenous one is sea kale, the old ones are other people's old ones too.

 

[PK99]

The new ones are other people's old ones now available here.

Given, iirc, our only indigenous one is sea kale, the old ones are other people's old ones too.

neatly put

 

[hopless500]

Black cabbage has a new name. Cavolo Nero or something like that.

But conversely, Romanesque is now green cauliflower.

What else?

Cavolo Nero is just the 'brand name'. It's kale. Always has been - I've been growing it for years.

 

[vickster]

Kale

Give me a nice pointy cabbage any day

 

[simon the viking]

Soom are good, some not. The one I can't get is Edemame beans, just marketing hype, a properly cooked broad bean is much nicer.

Now you're talking... nothing beats a Broad bean

 

[mjr]

Given, iirc, our only indigenous one is sea kale, the old ones are other people's old ones too.

Are unpopular stuff like mallow not indigenous, then?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Now you're talking... nothing beats a Broad bean

Agree. Or the humble Pea, common and so underrated....

 

[mjr]

Cavolo Nero is just the 'brand name'. It's kale. Always has been - I've been growing it for years.

I don't know what you're buying as Cavolo Nero but black cabbage is sweeter, softer, tighter, darker and less curly than kale.

 

[welsh dragon]

I won't bother. I will just stick to old fashioned veggies, and i will even buy them from the market, covered in dirt, and oddly shaped. How outrageous an idea is that. You can keep your so called exotic ponsey stuff .

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Agree. Or the humble Pea, common and so underrated....

Yup. Although that then requires either mashed swede and carrot or mashed potato to glue them to your fork.

Peas should only be served without that when you have a dinner guest you want to make feel uncomfortable.

Always serve loose peas or spaghetti to test the mettle of my daughters latest boyfriend.

Graham