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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: SPUDLY on March 31, 2009, 15:58:46
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I hate sweet veg, there i've said it. :o I don't know what it is, but i cannot get my head around sweet veg. Garden peas, parsnips, swede, turnip, i turn them all down if i'm offered. If i'm eating a main course it has to be savoury, dessert has to be sweet. But saying that i absolutely love corn on the cob, if it's sweetcorn in the tin, no chance :-X. I think i need therapy :D
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For me its Turnips - just don't see the point in them, other than cattle feed ;D
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Like most veg , :)
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marrow :-X
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artichoke,thats all
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Broad beans, although the Italians keep giving them to me. Put a few in soup otherwise (don't tell anyone) recycle them in the green bin.
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My family object to broadies so I just cook them, put them through the blender, and add it to the pot. They don't mind then!
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Kohl rabi, jerusalem artichokes and swede. Love all other veg.
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broad beans!!!!! they are the spawn of satan
CC
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sprouts, swede and beetroot (although I wish I liked beetroot). :)
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Runner Beans, Silver Beet, turnips, kohl rabbi, cucumber, celery (though ok in vege soup).
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Celery.
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Nothing I really dislike, although if offered a choice, I'd probably not choose beetroot. And kale is usually rather coarse, so again it wouldn't be number one on my list.
Alas, my tolerance of the delectable Jerusalem artichoke has diminished over the years, so I abstain.
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Asparagus....urrrgh! :-X
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[Celery.]
me too
i grow it for people i dont like ;D ;D ;D
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I think I must like all veg ;D
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Parsnips. blaahh!
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I cannot stand celery... it's horrible. I can detect the tiniest, tiniest amount in a casserole or salad but the strange thing is, if I put a couple of sticks of celery, a carrot and an apple in the juicer, I can't taste any of the celery, which just seems really odd!!!!!!?????
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The only thing I can think of that affects me like that is milk. One drop in a cup of coffee and I can taste the filthy stuff for the rest of the day.
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i don't think there is a vegetable or fruit I don't like .....oh just thought don't like okras yuk D ;D
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I like all veg but I don`t grow salsify or Scorzenera any more-I just find them a bit dull
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Turnips make an excellent soup base 1066, but I don't grow them as they won't eat them... I've tried to gro every veg I can see in the book... even Strawberry Spinach and Asparagus peas, which are more trouble than they're worth. The only thing I can't eat is paracress... perhaps Thifasmom is familiar with it, you certainly can't eat it raw as it makes your mouth numb like anaesthetic... :-\
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celery and sprouts - yuck!
broadbeans i am not keen on but can eat to be polite...
can't think of much else...
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I think it can be down to the recipe used for cooking, I like most vegetables, some more than others but can not eat cucumber, (I know it is a fruit) but I end up tasting it sour after for ages, even if it touches a lettuce leaf or tomato, I can not put it to one side, it leaves that 'taste'.
I love beetroot, especially when it is still warm with mayo' and cheese, last year a friend whose family hate beetroot made some beetroot and chocolate muffins. Her family thought they were great, I could not bear the taste. Luckily her dog adored them so it saved any embarrassment with me not eating mine.
khol rabi, I like grated as part of a salad but cooked, it is tasteless. I thought I did not like marrow, but roasted with garlic and herbs, I enjoyed.
Broad beans with the inner skin peeled off served in a tomato sauce, like baked beans I think is delicious but plain steamed or boiled I find them rather bitter.
Kale I am not fond of the texture the same with chard. Yet both are lovely when tiny as part of a salad.
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Do not think that there is a veg that I do not like. ;)
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I am prone to having as my favourites, veg that others frequently don't like. So I love Sprouts, broadbeans and cabbage... however parsnips, now what is it with parsnips, I can't abide them roasted or in a stew, but I love parsnip crisps and parsnip soup.
So all in all there is no veg that I hate altogether, just depends how they are prepared.
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parsnip :P Also i know it's not veg but gooseberries. If a plant has that many thorns even on the fruit it doesn't want you to eat it!
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swede
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I dislike (hate) most veg,but love growing it ;D ;D ;D
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swede and jerusalem artichoke,love globe artichoke thou ;)
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hmmm nothing if its cooked a way i like but broadys, soya beans on their own and okra
in anything appart frm veg curry is disgusting
lbb
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Spinach :-X :-X :-X Should be banned. Other than that I like just about all veg. Just as well I ain't a..... vegetarian ;D ;D ;D (I'll get my coat.....taxi ;D ;D)
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well lets see i love or like most veg and generally if its cooked right I'll most likely enjoy them all (i don't do the boil veg thing at all :P).
veges i have stayed away from for quite some years now have been cabbage and cauliflower but will eat them if served to me, I'm not into sprouts and have never eaten swedes, turnips, celeriac, globe artichokes and so I'm growing all of these this year to see if picking fresh and preparing them myself will make a difference.
The only thing I can't eat is paracress... perhaps Thifasmom is familiar with it, you certainly can't eat it raw as it makes your mouth numb like anaesthetic... :-\
never heard of it Saddad had to google it. i think (emphasis on think) i recognise the plant and its flowers and the oldies back home might recognize it as a medicinal herb but i see its mainly used in Brazil.
and okra in anything appart frm veg curry is disgusting
lbb
as i child i would have agreed with you but you need to get someone to cook you up some okra and rice with salted fish (cod) as part of the dish, absolutely yum!! ;D
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swede and jerusalem artichoke,love globe artichoke thou ;)
I love Jerusalem Artichoke but I am not sure they love me.... PAAAAARP!
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aubergine and celeriac - bleugh!
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Spinach :-X :-X :-X Should be banned. Other than that I like just about all veg. Just as well I ain't a..... vegetarian ;D ;D ;D (I'll get my coat.....taxi ;D ;D)
Hurrah, someone else that won't eat that rank weed :D.... add broccoli and okra to that list
chrisc
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Thanks for the replies everyone, knew i wasn't alone. Think it all stems from childhood, and that i would have grown out of it at 40.
The only thing I can't eat is paracress... perhaps Thifasmom is familiar with it, you certainly can't eat it raw as it makes your mouth numb like anaesthetic... :-\
;D ;D ;D. I wonder if i could sneak some into the other half's dinner.
I think I've got to get more adventurous with the cooking side of things, and find myself a good cookbook dedicated to veg.
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It looks quite pretty too Spudly... 8)
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Saddad, turnip as a soup base - blaagghhh. Still don't see the point, can make soup bases out of much nicer things ;D (IMO).
lots of peeps don't like Okra - I love it but it has to be cooked just right, over cook it and its slimy, cook old or unfresh and yuck its all stringy
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swede and celery ikkkkk
KT I'm a veggie too - save a space in the taxi for me ;D
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lots of peeps don't like Okra - I love it but it has to be cooked just right, over cook it and its slimy, cook old or unfresh and yuck its all stringy
yep you are so right.
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Okra and Asparagus peas are perhaps the only things on my yuk list. But this year I have sown 3 different varieties of Okra and will try my best to find a few good recipes for it (my partner loves it!).
I think there is something wrong with people who don't like swede! Its one of my great favourites.
When I first met my partner she said she hated it (it was nearly the end of our relationship ;) ) but then it turned out she had not tried it since school dinners! Now we have it mashed with carrot and she loves it (well, getting there).
School dinners have a lot to answer for - I remember the thick skinned, starchy broad beans served up and almost everyone hated them (depending on how hungry we were at the time) - but eaten fresh they are unbeatable.
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School dinners have a lot to answer for - I remember the thick skinned, starchy broad beans served up and almost everyone hated them (depending on how hungry we were at the time) - but eaten fresh they are unbeatable.
I rather agree. One school I attended (we're talking about the 1950s) served mangel wurzel as a root veg, although they called it swede. It wasn't unpleasant in taste, but very fibrous. It made me shy of swede for many years after.
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Cucumbers - I cannot stand them but the rest of the family love them especially the Crystal Apple ones so there are four plants for the greenhouse
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Okra, broad beans (though I am assured that young ones are lovely so I might try growing a couple of plants), and I remember having stringy runner beans pickled in salt as a kid, which were vile.
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Last time we had Jerusalem Artichokes I thought I was going to die... I have never felt such pain. The gas released upon digestion simply can't get out of either end quickly enough. So it goes for the other option, through the side of your stomach.
Other than that, I think most veg have their place...
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i can't stand sprouts or beetroot ,can't even go into a house where they have been cooking them, allthough i do grow lots of beets for my dad to pickle for the family 8)
joe
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Last time we had Jerusalem Artichokes I thought I was going to die...
Years ago some friends lived opposite a supermarket that had veg deliveries in the early hours. As struggling students they would get up early and avail themselves of the wares that were left outside on the pavement. One day they had a glut of sprouts, and we made a sprout curry. Onions, curry powder, sprouts and tomato puree.
It had the same effect.. felt like I needed a vet to come and do that procedure they do on inflated sheep.
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I've never liked advocados much. Will eat them at a push but find them rather mushy and tasteless! Kids thought the same too when I read it was great stuff to puree for baby food - REJECTED ::) :P :P.
Good job they are not a UK grown staple ;D.
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boiled cabbage and brussel sprouts.. vile.
Sprout Curry???? lunacy... interesting concept though.
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Chard - looks lovely but tastes of nothing
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It had the same effect.. felt like I needed a vet to come and do that procedure they do on inflated sheep.
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What do they do to inflated sheep?
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What do they do to inflated sheep?
;) ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I thought that only happened in wales, or have i led a sheltered life?
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Bus shelters, air raid shelters, bike sheds... (showing my age with the middle one!) :-X
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Celery and stringy runner beans.
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oh i forgot Asparagus peas bluck
lbb
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tinned ones, apart from sweetcorn.
I like every single veg I have ever tasted but potatos and young broad beans are my favourite.
I think people usually don't like a veg because of childhood experiences of bad cooking.
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I think that's very true. Most veg are fine if they're not grossly overboiled in the traditional English fashion!
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I mean whats worse than a smelly soggy grey green school brussel sprouts. The ones I cook are firm, bright green and smell and taste sweet and nutty.
Its like saying you dont like steak because you've tasted square slice sausage.
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True to my "name" I like square sausage... :-X
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We don't like radishes, turnips, swiss chard or cooked garden peas. We do like to eaty them raw though
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Winter radish cook well, like swede/turnip, make good mash (mixed roots!) :)
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True to my "name" I like square sausage... :-X
I have never heard of square sauage, do you mean haslet?
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It's a scottish thing... sausage meat done in square slices, like Kraft cheese, so that it fits the sarnies well... :)
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in lincolnshire it's called haslet
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in lincolnshire it's called haslet
if you call square sausage haslet, what do you call haslet?
lbb
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square slice is lorne sausage, you must cook it. Haslet is more like chopped pork or meat loaf I think
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my otherhalf is russian and while i call it haslet(thats haselet not hazlet!)he calls it-'false rabbit'-'swhat they call it'over there'!
and there is no vegetable that we dont like!well...havent found one-course-theres ones we prefer...
kitty
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square slice is lorne sausage, you must cook it. Haslet is more like chopped pork or meat loaf I think
that is my understanding as well :)
there is no vegetable that we dont like!well...havent found one
kitty
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kitty have you tried Asparagus peas ?
lbb
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I found rainbow chard bland and tasteless so I won't bother with it again. I've yet to sample the delights (?) of an asparagus pea.
I can't think of a single veg I actively dislike - raw or cooked. But apart from potatoes, comparatively few of the veg I grow ever get a chance to be cooked as I'm always grazing on the plot - must be the fresh air...
Anyone else built up a taste for fresh raw veg?
Oh , by the way, DO NOT come anywhere near me with that spawn of the Devil - coriander (bleeuurrgh!)
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well would have to say Turnips everything else is marvelous !!