What's happened to vegetables?

[Illaveago]

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I've seen a Chameleon looking like that.

 

[MossCommuter]

Kale is not food

 

[swee'pea99]

One of my local street stalls was selling these t'other day:

I asked what they were. Karela I was told. What do you do with it, I asked. It's some kind of bitter vegetable, I was told. 'My Indian customers tell me it's an acquired taste...'

 

[PK99]

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 .

Peppers?
Courgette?
Tomatoes?
Potatoes?
Broad beans?
Bananas?

http://www.localhistories.org/vegetables.html


Best stick to the true british veg?
carrots,
parsnip,
cabbages,
peas,
beans
and onions.

But in fact most of those are actually introductions from elsewhere

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Romanesco - form of Cauliflower but with a flavour closer to calabrese.

I like these, they sometimes have them in at Morrisons at Doncaster but not seen them elsewhere, Can't comment on whether they taste like calabrese as I have no idea what that is

 

[PK99]

I like these, they sometimes have them in at Morrisons at Doncaster but not seen them elsewhere, Can't comment on whether they taste like calabrese as I have no idea what that is

 

[Electric_Andy]

I think it's great that there are so many more veggies available now. More choice for people who don't like carrots or frozen peas.

 

[User482]

Back when I was in short trousers and dodging white dog poo on the pavement, vegetables were a simple and enjoyable affair. Cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes, spinach, sprouts, swedes.....even carrots. I'm sure there were more. I drew the line at broccoli however, and so did my mother. I still eat them all today but dose them with lots of pepper, butter and garlic.

Then, a few years ago, something went terribly wrong. All kinds of strange stuff with unpronounceable names started appearing. They were all supposed to be terribly good for you and would stave off cancer and heart disease. The problem is that they have all the culinary appeal of gnawing on tree bark.

Am I alone?

 

[MichaelW2]

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I think I passed on of those from my kidney. It hurt a lot.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

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

They are all broccoli and just deformed cabbages.

 

[robjh]

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

But not curly kale it ain't. It's posh, premium kale.

 

[petek]

Lidl's veg is better, and cheaper; than Tesco's.

 

[jefmcg]

Best stick to the true british veg?
carrots,

And hopefully no one is eating the mutant orange carrot introduced the Dutch.

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I always find these threads weird. "I don't think something I don't like (or am afraid to try) should exist"

 

[PK99]

Lidl's veg is better, and cheaper; than Tesco's.

better than Tesco is not hard...

 

[Tim Hall]

They are all broccoli and just deformed cabbages.

The Boy has it that broccoli "is a mutant vegetable".