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[Scramble]

After an interesting phone call from my friend, I have discovered she has no idea what olives or grapefruits are

 

Are the any people on here who do not know what they are

If so, I'm sorry if I've offended you.

It's just my friend is very clever, abnormally so, and especially since she's taken Food Technology it made me giggle

[jlo]

I am intrigued as to what she thought that they might be!!

[Space Chick]

 

Do I know?

 

Are they a type of edible animal?

 

It amazes me, when my friends daughter was over a few weeks ago, she had no idea what a broad bean was, the Kohl Rabi I could understand, but a Broad Bean

 

I watched a Jamie Oliver programme a few years back, and was amazed when children didn't know carrots, leeks and other simple stuff, but they were little ones not teenagers. I mean an olive and a grapefruit are not that unusual.

 

I hope your friend is managing her 5 a day JJ.

[Scramble]

yes she is

She's addicted to apples apparently

 

My other friend though

She allergic to most fruit; strawberries, apples, cherries (her favourite ), pears, peaches and she has mild asthma.

She still sneakily eats strawberries though as she loves them I yell at her though

At least she can have oranges which she adores.

 

Debs...what's a broad bean?

 

Edited August 4, 2009 by Guest

[Lesley]

She probably thinks that means 5 apples

 

 

edit - cross posted

[Space Chick]

But yet startlingly accurate Lesley

[Scramble]

 

We're okay our parentals are fruit and veg worshippers

 

We like to be healthy though

[Space Chick]

Yey Chichi and Mum for instilling healthy values into you and your sister

 

I am doing the same for my God Daughter, she had a toy kitchen for her birthday, and people bought her toy fast food, so I went straight to the early leaning centre and bought toy vegetables

[Scramble]

Very good of you Debs

Edited August 4, 2009 by Guest

[Fur 'n' Feathers]

 

What's that in the jar that we keep in the fridge

 

We think we might have olive oil in our veins

 

We'd suggest introducing your friend to Kalamata olives.... life will never be the same again..... and then on to a range of queen olives, stuffed olives, olives with garlic, olives with lemon (don't bother with pimento!)

[redhotchick]

Overheard in Netto on Saturday

Lady shopper #1 "Oh look, Dairylee Triangles with chives in"

Lady shopper #2 "What's chives?"

[jlo]

Thinking about it, last year DD had a friend round who would have been 11 at the time. I don't do chips too often but I did do proper ones.

 

"These are great," she said. "What are they made out of?"

 

She honestly did not realise that chips were potatoes!

[jackiepoppies]

........

 

when 3 1/2 year old was shopping with me in Sainsburys and kept returning to the olive buckets......you know....where you fill up little pots and then go and pay for them?......

 

How do you put said grandson on scales and tell the cashier he's your 'little pot'.........minus the stones he's given to grandma to dispose of

 

Jx

[Scramble]

[Snowy]

Olives are a sticky topic in our family. Following a visit from our niece (in her 20s), she went home and told her parents that we had turned posh because we ate olives

[Yorkshire Pudding]

Blimey, we must be right toffs then!

 

My two lads are addicted to them, since they first had solids they have loved olives. Waiters in pizza restaurants are regularly gobsmacked to have them order pizzas with double olives on top...

 

It's my fault. When I was pregnant with them I ate loads of olives!

 

 

I used to run a food club after school and it was amazing how many teenagers had never seen onions, potatoes and carrots with their skins on... we would like to start up a veg plot now, to go alongside the KS4 business enterprise that produces hundreds of bedding plants every summer.

[PurpleTree]

My oldest is brilliant at recognising fruit and veg, he can even name some of them in Welsh, although he probably wouldn't know what an olive is as neither me nor hubby like them. He definitely knows what a grapefruit is though, his face was a picture when he tried some for the first time

[Seagazer]

When we go out for a meal we have to order YS his own dish of olives to stand a chance of having some ourselves, yummy.

 

I was in Sainsburys the other day and the lady in front had a punnet of nectarines and the chap on the till (about 20 odd) asked her what they were. Surely he should of known his products?

[Blackrocksrock]

Grapefruit are widely available but maybe noone in her family liked them and although I know what olives look like in various guises - I am afraid I do not like them at all. Tried them again at a french market - No No No.

[Chickvic]

Olives grapefruit I may have to go and buy some!

[Scramble]

I love both

 

White, Pink or Red Grapefruit?

I like them all.

[Chickvic]

I like all grapefruits too

[Space Chick]

OH went through an obsession with Pink Grapefruit where he'd have one every morning He always does this with breakfasts, its been Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, Fruit toast etc etc, at the moment its porridge

 

I'm not a fan of either olives or grapefruit, about the only fruit fruit and veg I don't like funnily enough

[Scramble]

I have crunchy nut cornfalkes

Must be a Welsh thing

 

I didn't used to like olives for ages and then, one day, I loved them

Same with Salmon really.

[Space Chick]

I LOVE Salmon, its so versatile aswell, goes well with nice creamy sauces, tomato based sauces, Marinaded in Asian spices, char grilled with some Jack Daniels dip, the options are endless. Oh, I want some salmon now