Every Loquacious Idiosyncrasy Treated Equally - 11+ ELITE Thread

fairclaire

savvy_sal wrote: »

Has anybody found time to read it today or have we all jumped to page 10:rotfl::rotfl:

Mine were claimed to wrap fishing bait in :rotfl::rotfl:

purpledonkey

aau1 wrote: »

I think a few of the guys might have "read" another page

HEY! I saved page 3... as wrapping paper

karlie88

purpledonkey wrote: »

HEY! I saved page 3... as wrapping paper

:eek:

cjj_2

Where is tiger ?

fairclaire

karlie88 wrote: »

:eek:

From your hard up student days? :eek:

karlie88

fairclaire wrote: »

From your hard up student days? :eek:

£2400 for that shoot.

:beer:

TrulyMadly

Streetlights have you made a start filling up your freezer again?:j

Must put celery and butternut squash on my M list for the weekend:)

Sunshinemummy

cjj wrote: »

Where is tiger ?

Morrisons!

:D:D:D

silvercar

Please can someone help me with clicksnap. Mine is showing 19 offer for Morries - none of them the 50p when you spend £5. What am I doing wrong?

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

Noun 1. root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubersroot vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

No, I disagree with that definition including "or tubers".

Not that Wikipedia is always accurate but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_root_vegetables
Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. Here "root" means any underground part of a plant. [...] Botany distinguishes true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots from non-roots such as tubers...

It adds that, in ordinary use, root vegetable can apply to types (including tubers therefore). But this doesn't make it technically a tuber in botanical terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potatoes
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum L

A tuber again - not a vegetable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubers
Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to survive the winter or dry months, to provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growing season, and as a means of asexual reproduction.[1] There are both stem and root tubers.

[...]

A stem tuber forms from thickened rhizomes or stolons.

[...]

Potatoes are stem tubers.

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130913064438AAG8GiQ
"potatoes are not vegetables, they are tubers and part of the nightshade family. "

Comment by anonymous user called "?", answered 10 months ago. Very reliable you see:rotfl::rotfl:.

But Googling "are potatoes vegetables" retrieves:

'Potatoes are botanically classified as a vegetable, but they are classified nutritionally as a starchy food,' says a DoH spokesperson. 'This is because when eaten as part of a meal, they are generally used in place of other starchy carbohydrates, such as bread, pasta or rice.

The great potato debate: Nutritionists insist spuds ARE ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../The-great-potato-debate-Nutritionists-insist-spuds-...

And yet under a link to the same Daily Mail article (as if believe anything there), 2 Apr 2011 - The Department of Health has never included potatoes in the 'five a day' criteria. In fact, it doesn't even class the potato as a vegetable at all.

I think the spokesperson allegedly quoted in the first search result did not know what they were talking about. IMO. These are people skilled in PR and not necessarily knowledgeable in technical subjects.