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A friend of mine was telling me they went to a Xmas dinner do with someones veggie family and a VERY VERY heated debate ensued over the topic of.....desert island vegetables, (along the lines of "desert island discs").

So, without further ado...


WHAT ARE YOUR 5 DESERT ISLAND VEGETABLES?


Mine are:

1. Onions

2. Potatoes

3. Spinach

4. Mushrooms

5. Tomatoes*



* Ok - I know that technically they are fruit, rather than vegetables, but I'm not gonna put them in a fruit salad.

Can we add the bit where - when the waves crash to the shore and you have to rush and save just ONE FAVOURITE VEGETABLE what would it be?


My EIGHT Vegetables


Potatoes

Swede

Marrow

Corncobs

Parsnips

Carrots

Turnips

Peas


And I would save the Marrow.


You daft lot. HNY.

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> I think as I am on my diet - it would be:

>

> Brussels sprouts

> Celeriac

> Swede

> Turnip

> Asparagus

>

> and I would save the Avocado

>

> I feel slimmer already!



CHEEKY! That's 6! You can only save one of your five. As for picking 8 Peckham Rose - no! (Now you see why there was such a heated debate at the Xmas table mentioned in my original post). ;-)

Also, I am intrigued by everyone's postings...mine are all about practicality/versatility, but I am getting the vibe that the rest of you are going for favourites - although I am definitely not getting the whole swede/turnip fetish.

Keef Wrote:

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> I'm not a big veg fan, but love fruit, so if

> you're allowed tomatoes and avocados, then I am

> taing bananas, oranges, melons, strawberries and

> pineapple.


You could argue that strawberries are actually a vegetable as the fleshy bit that we eat is a type of stem. Technically their ?fruit? are the little black dots on the outside.

Aaah, the old fruit/vegetable argument.

Had a big barney about this in the office once.


After some research it boiled down to vegetable being pretty much any part or all of any plant. Tuber, leaf, fruit, seed, no matter.

But a fruit is a matured vegetable ovary containing seeds.

So all fruits are vegetables (including your tomato), but obviously not vice versa. I think a strawberry fits onto the fruit definition, but can't guarantee as a botanist I ain't.


Traditionally a vegetable is a savoury thing in cookery, so I guess from whence the debate arises tomatolly.


Can't remember where mushrooms fit into all of this.

Oh yah boo sucks you rotten rule makers and breakers.

"although I am definitely not getting the whole swede/turnip fetish"

I make soup. On me desert island I'd make soup dammit and swedes and turnips and parsnips make great soup.

Talking of desert islands, what eight deserts would you take?

Blueberry cheesecake

Strawberry cheesecake

Lemon cheesecake

(see the pattern here?)

>>Talking of desert islands, what eight deserts would you take? <<


Sachertorte

Profiteroles

Chocolare mousse

Chocolate eclairs

Chocolate fondue

Steamed chocolate sponge with hot chcolate sauce

Tarte au chocolat

Crepes with Curacao and chocolate sauce...


I too have a pattern... :))

mockney piers Wrote:

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>

> Can't remember where mushrooms fit into all of

> this.



Mushrooms are NOT vegetables or fruit but are Fungi.


Curly cale

Chillies

Onions

Courgettes

Cauliflower


I'd save the onions. I'd like to get to know them better.

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