In honour of our leaked (leeked?) topic – a topical question.
What vegetable are you?
I’m a potato. Stodgy, cheap, easy to get hold of and dead easy to prepare. But some consider me versatile and even tasty. And nearly everyone turns to me when they’re short of money!!
Go on, spill the beans! What vegetable are you?
Leaked topic? Where? Songs about vegetables?
We’re thinking it might be a joke though.
Brussels sprout. I’m very wholesome and stand up well under adversity. Not many people like me but those that do…well, they like me really a lot. And I’m in my element at Christmas.
asparagus – I’m only useful for 6 weeks a year.
Brilliant answers Tfd and Shane – and so quick too! Admiration!
Shane – you make people’s pee smell funny?
Sorry to lower the tone!
Lower what tone exactly, steen? This is possibly the lowest brow post in spill memory! And, anyway, what vegetable are you?
I’m thinking!! I’m such a fan of all vegetables that it’s hard to decide. Give me a minute…
maybe arugula (rocket). It’s an odd flavor, not everybody likes it. It can be “interesting,” “nutty (appealingly or otherwise)” Or very bitter.
Rúcula in Spanish. Conchita’s daughter grows it in her garden. A staple of our barbecue side salads. You’d be a great hit chez Maki, steen!
I’ve been accused of worse – thanks steen.
Probably red potatoes. Solid but soft in the middle when heated & takes well to a good seasoning. Everything neccessary for a proper life’s diet but nothing to excess.
Leeked topics, technical difficulties, phone it in a-lists, rotating gurus, uninspiring subjects: It’s enough to make a grown man flounce.
Or bounce!
Must be a cucumber: some find them refreshing, gives others bad indigestion.
Good for hayfever eyes.
Shallot – I’m often in a pickle.
Lady of? I know an adaptation in song of that poem…
I like that joke about Mrs Thatcher having dinner with the cabinet, and the waiter, having served her roast beef, asking “And what about the vegetables?”; upon which she replies “Oh, they’ll have the same as me.”
I was hoping someone would mention that one! It is good isn’t it? Probably, given the butt of the joke, the least offensive “vegetable/impaired” joke of all time! Thanks Tfd!
Well, why didn’t you just tell it yourself, you silly potato?
I’m a shy potato and you tell ‘em so much better than I do, Tfd!
Hiding your eyes, are you, Maki?
That’s the one about the tatties to see us through to the end of the week, right? Love it!
Nostalgia corner: does anyone one else remember the fruit & veg characters for the end of your pencil (not a euphemism)?
No, but I can get you some fruit-flavoured…um…never mind.
Treefrogdemon! You will always be my favorite brussel sprout.
Oi, no euphemism was called (still pretty funny though).
Still want a pic of one of them for my sure to awesome veggie playlist (we did great with meat – so how hard could it be).
Am thinking they were called fruit salads or something similar? Don’t want to risk googling the wrong thing & find myself looking at fruit porn. ‘Spill points up for grabs for whoever points me in the right direction.
Recall having quite an extensive collection – but think most of them didn’t survive chewing (don’t go there, TFD).
I’m really hoping that the vegetable theme is a joke – the first person to nominate Girlfriend In A Coma would get lynched and the whole blog would probably get closed down …
What, you mean I’m staying up later for nothing?
I’m a sprout by the way – a prefab one, naturally …
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
Don’t actually mind the theme – like the challange of finding an interesting playlist from a dull-seeming theme. Maybe another week when the obvious green onions dry up early & we get to some good discoveries.
Am already glazing over at the prospect of veg v fruit v plant v fungi v legume pedantry
I asked a fairly dull midwife assistant person whether mushrooms were vegetables (could I whizz them up and feed them to my 6 month old son? – Who, incidentally, hates them now he’s 6 years old) and she came up with the interesting distinction (not the right word – it’s late, there’s been wine drunk) that they were in a culinary sense.
Think I’m a spring onion. A proper onion is bitter, makes you cry and is good in a stew.
I’m small, easy to pull up and mostly harmless. Most of me is of no use and I’m at my best for only a short time. I taste ok, though, and mix in well with other veggie stuff.
“An inteligent man knows that a tomato is a fruit.
A wise man knows not to serve it with ice cream”
Good in a stir fry. Ken Hom’s chinese trinity: garlic, spronion (sorry; spring onion) and ginger. Is ginger a vegetable? Fond memories of the bestest street name in Hull: The Land of Green Ginger. It’s a tiny street. Really cool, though.
Pink Fir Apple potato. Extremely ugly, incredibly hard work (cleaning mud from nooks and crannies) but very tasty if you put in the effort. Also old and entirely out of step with modern capitalist economy.
I think I must be Rocket. It grows like a weed and spreads everywhere. It used to grow in Holborn (according to Dr. Johnson and Culpepper) and when I was about 5, we lived in Fetter Lane which is just around the corner.
Plus, I love it in a baegel (bought from Brick Lane – the spelling is correct) with Marmite.
I’m a butternut squash. Same shape. Prone to looking yellow. Better when you butter me up but can be interesting if you like to add spice.
Did anyone see the article in the Guardian on 23 Sept about a woman who attacked a bear with a courgette?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/23/woman-scares-charging-bear-courgette
It was in The Sun, too, so it must be true. Someone wrote into the Guardian (letters page today) and said she must have had a marrow escape.
should’ve posted sooner, sorry. I’m a cauliflower.
No foolin’?
I’m a pumpkin. I’m often thought of as something that I’m not (not really a vegetable). I love Halloween and I hate pies.
Parsnip – very uncommon and unknown in France, surprisingly sweet and crispy when baked, reveals unexpected possibilities if you give it a try!!!!
That sounds naff, doesn’t it??
@ shoey – I remember em. I had the bunch of grapes and the banana.
I like to think i’m more of a radish. With emphasis on the truly rad.