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Old 03-07-2008, 10:24 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default My capsicum and aubergine plants


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Rusty Hinge 2 writes:
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| | I approve of the peppers, but I have never understood why anyone eats
| | aubergines!
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| | You've never cooked them properly :-)
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| To be fair, some people don't like them even cooked properly.
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| I used not to, when I was younger and hypersensitive to bitterness.
| And their actual taste is distinctive enough to be something that at
| least some people will dislike.
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| It's the very lack of flavour which makes them uninteresting to me. I
| don't dislike them, but I'd just as soon eat cotton wool.

I know what you mean. I like them, quite a lot, but sometimes they
seem to taste of nothing. It seems to be a combination of the actual
aubergine and way of cooking them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.