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From: T i m on 24 Jan 2010 19:10 On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:42:40 +0000, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >> Exactly. Dad would eat a plate of the things on their own, me, I'll >> force a couple down at Xmas but they still (and always have) tasted >> disgusting. > >That's explained by them being not the best sprouts and your dad not >being bothered by various bitter and sulpherous taste that are usually >found disgusting by youngsters. > >That's the usual reason. You would have thought then that over 47 years of eating then and being able to express my dislike (I'm now 53) I'd have been lucky and had one that was a nice one? > >The solution is better selection of sprouts, better preparation, and >better (less is the usual answer) cooking. The solution is to leave them. ;-) > >I've done it. So far, idea's not yet been disproven. Wanna post me some? > >(no, I'm not a great cook, but I do understand how to deal with fresh >veg) Me too, the compost bin. ;-) > >[snip] > >> [2] I started a small veg patch a few years ago and I've now given up >> on all but onions (as nothing creature wise seems to eat them which >> means we actually get something for our efforts). > >Runner beans. Try 'em - start 'em off indoors. Yup, got a mate who is a gardener and he gives me them at about 6" tall. If I can keep the slugs off them long enough for them to get to adulthood I'm then spraying / washing the black fly off them. It's then caterpillars on the greens and all the root stuff comes up perforated. Tomato's get some sort of blight (and I don't like them that much) hence why I'm ging over 100% onto onions. I even left some spring onions in over winter and they came back the next year bigger and stronger. The last 4 monster onions I pulled were the size of rugby balls and frozen solid. We are still working our way through them in stir frys and stews etc ... that's *my* kind of plant! The frustrating thing is stuff does seen to grow well there / for me and I've given Mum tons of it as she can be bothered to rummage about for the good bits. Cheers, T i m p.s. The last time I looked out there I had 5 sticks of Brussels with baby sprouts on them, laying flat on the garden after the wind and rain knocked them flat. I noted in the supermarket the other day you can get perfect full sized sticks for �1 each. It's just not worth the effort (unless you actually enjoy growing, cooking or eating them that is).
From: Ian Piper on 25 Jan 2010 02:10 On 2010-01-24 22:03:03 +0000, richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) said: > In article > <1jcuemo.176vijq1tkmc05N%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> But I've always like sprouts and I've >> no idea what any child could have against them - unless they're badly >> cooked or prepared. > > People who like sprouts tend to be convinced that those who don't > would like them if only they were cooked properly. They are mistaken. > I have never heard of anyone who had disliked sprouts, but then found > that properly cooked ones tasted nice. The fact is that some people > find sprouts completely disgusting, and there's no more point trying > to find some way to make them like them than there is trying to make > them enjoy being beaten with iron bars. > > -- Richard What he said. I have tried sprouts raw, stir-fried, under- and over-boiled and even microwaved and cannot stand them. And I will eat almost anything. OK, not tripe. Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --�
From: Rowland McDonnell on 25 Jan 2010 02:49 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > > >> Exactly. Dad would eat a plate of the things on their own, me, I'll > >> force a couple down at Xmas but they still (and always have) tasted > >> disgusting. > > > >That's explained by them being not the best sprouts and your dad not > >being bothered by various bitter and sulpherous taste that are usually > >found disgusting by youngsters. > > > >That's the usual reason. > > You would have thought then that over 47 years of eating then and > being able to express my dislike (I'm now 53) I'd have been lucky and > had one that was a nice one? Not at all - you know nothing about veg if you think that's how it works. If you get your veg from the supermarket, you can expect most of it to be foul muck. You're not interested in anything but making contrary posts to wind me up - that behaviour of yours is despicable. [snip more faintly insulting nonsense] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: d4g4h4 on 25 Jan 2010 02:52 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: [] > I'm a /very/ fussy eater[1]. I'll only eat nice, good food. > > And that doesn't include tripe, which is famous for having a horrible > texture and almost no flavour and thus is utterly disgusting by my > reckoning. I had grilled andouillettes for lunch yesterday- it was delicious. It's an acquired taste. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Rowland McDonnell on 25 Jan 2010 03:14
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > [] > > I'm a /very/ fussy eater[1]. I'll only eat nice, good food. > > > > And that doesn't include tripe, which is famous for having a horrible > > texture and almost no flavour and thus is utterly disgusting by my > > reckoning. > > I had grilled andouillettes for lunch yesterday- it was delicious. It's > an acquired taste. I can't understand anyone calling anything with tripe in it `delicious' on the grounds that tripe doesn't actually have much of a flavour itself at all. I can understand liking to eat such things - but delicious? Anyway, the texture of tripe is such that I don't think anything could persuade me to try to acquire a taste for the tasteless stuff. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |