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OK. I tried growing vegetables but I'm too squeamish to eat them.

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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Another reason I should wear my glasses more often then! I am still traumatised from the animated T Rex at the Natural History Museum, such a relief not to have lived 220,000,000 years ago.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Cruciferous ants? Blackberry and maggot pie put me off blackberries for life, I admit.


  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    edited July 2019
    It seems you and cruciferous vegetables are uncomfortable bedfellows, B3 and are never going to be happy together. What with sprouts passing wind all the time, cauliflowers rolling over and stealing the duvet, savoy cabbages just lying there frizzled and broccoli just too big-headed to perform on their own without bringing their creepy mates along. 

    Its good to acknowledge these things, wistfully stare at the brassica patch for a bit, then move on to brighter, wholesome (or should that be hole-less) things 🤗 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Nollie and @Fire isn't the internet a wonderful thing? I never thought that  I would find anyone on my wavelength! I haven't a clue what you're talking about . We could write the 21st century edition  of McArthur Park or a Whiter Shade of Pale but we need to work a little on pretentious.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A strangely appealing example of pretentiousness. 😀
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s not just veg ... Ma once sliced into a fruitcake on the Sunday tea table and hundreds of ants came pouring out and all over the white tablecloth ... 😱

    Ma threw out the battered and bent old cake tin and invested in some posh new Tupperware 😂 

     

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yuk. The grossest thing that ever happened to me was being offered fried rice after dealing with a dustbinful of maggots.
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    Also, i can't even look at pain au chocolat. Once ,at Gatwick Airport, while waiting to pay for a sandwich, I noticed a lot of flies. Then I noticed they were flying in and out of a hole in the side of one of them😝 
    Our local Tesco has a big photo of a P aC to entice customers to sample their bakery foods. I look the other way.
    I would mention that this cafe is no longer at Gatwick.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2019
    "Ma once sliced into a fruitcake on the Sunday tea table and hundreds of ants came pouring out and all over the white tablecloth ."

    🤢 How utterly foul. 

    I haven't a clue what you're talking about

    Which bit eludes you?

    There is a bit in the film Lost Boys where a guy eating rice hallucinates that he eating maggots and thirty years later I still picture it when I see a bowl of rice. 

    Not apropos of food, but once I picked up my old, beloved yellow teddy bear and a tide of large black beetles came out of a hole in the foot. Scarred me for life. 
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