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Spudbash
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Re: What veg you do not eat?
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Reply #60 on:
June 23, 2010, 16:41:45 »
goodlife, if you can taste bitterness in your purple-podded peas, you may be a supertaster, ie have more of the tastebuds that can detect bitterness. :P About a quarter of us are.
If you hated the taste of cabbage, sprouts and PSB as a child, it was probably the bitterness you were picking up on.
I'm a supertaster, too - it took me a very long time to acquire a taste for beer, but I got there in the end! Strange to think that nature doesn't allow us all to taste things on an equal basis...it's all in the genes.
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Flighty
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Reply #61 on:
June 23, 2010, 16:53:26 »
I've always eaten most, if not all, veg! :)
Spudbash you're lucky as I've always had a poor sense of taste which following the flu some years back become even worse! :(
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Robert_Brenchley
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Re: What veg you do not eat?
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June 23, 2010, 18:52:26 »
Quote from: goodlife on June 22, 2010, 14:15:18
Are purple podded supposed to be a bit bitter..?
Sufficiently so to notice if you're eating full-sized peas raw. It varies from one variety to the next, but none of them are particularly sweet. If you're cooking them into a dish rather than separately, you wouldn't notice.
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Spudbash
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Re: What veg you do not eat?
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June 23, 2010, 19:55:46 »
I sympathise, Flighty. I imagine you will appreciate the texture of your veggies more than some of us do. I know the texture partly depends on cooking (or not cooking), but otherwise it alters with variety and degree of ripeness.
Perhaps you're best-placed to recommend which fruit and veg have a really good crunch or are silky-smooth or are particularly juicy, and so on? Personally, I love a really ripe pear... :)
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Flighty
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Reply #64 on:
June 23, 2010, 20:03:41 »
Spudbash thanks, it's interesting what you say and I'll think about it over the next few days when I'm eating.
I certainly like crisp, juicy apples, and firm not mushy bananas! 8)
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goodlife
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Re: What veg you do not eat?
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Reply #65 on:
June 23, 2010, 20:08:25 »
Supertaster... ;D..that sounds good... ;D
Oh I've always been bit of a 'dustbin'..even when kid...mind thoug..we never did eat brussels and broccoli when I was kid...those days things like that did not excist in Finland..cabbages yes..
Now you get anything and everything like in here. They don't even eat runner beans over there...they are grown as ornamental climbers for they flowers..nobody don't eat the pods.. ;D ::)
As for eating peas raw..well mine never get out of lottie gate..they get eaten there and then..never mind trying to cook some.. ::)
Thought of something else I don't like...raw parsley...aawwful...but cooked ..ok
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sawfish
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Re: What veg you do not eat?
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Reply #66 on:
June 24, 2010, 10:07:36 »
purple podded peas are always granular and more bitter than green ones. Thats the common thought.
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Spudbash
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June 24, 2010, 11:12:56 »
There are so many different ways to appreciate fruit and vegetables when you grow your own - colour, shape, flavour, texture...and the ones I haven't thought of yet! ;D
As for purple-podded peas, I'm reminded of this blog, which I think an A4A-er recommended some time ago. Someone here is looking to breed a decent-tasting purple-podded pea - see the posting for 31 May:
http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/
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Robert_Brenchley
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June 24, 2010, 18:15:39 »
That's a brilliant blog. The sweet-tasting modern peas are descended from a mutation that appeared around 1820, if I remember right. No reason why it shouldn't be combined with purple pods. The existing purple podded varieties are all field peas, bred for dried peas rather than fresh.
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sawfish
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Re: What veg you do not eat?
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Reply #69 on:
June 24, 2010, 21:58:29 »
yes the mealiness of the purple pea definitely has its place too.
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