A thread for things you shouldn't be wondering about...

Roger_Rampant

Defoe wrote: »

Reckon your wife has to be a saint R-R......:).

I do sometimes refer to her as "Saint Margaret" on social media! :rotfl:

I'm certainly not the easiest person in the world to live with, and anyone that has put up with me for thirty years is definitely worthy of that accolade :rotfl:

BlueBella wrote: »

:rotfl: Sorry had to laugh at the thought of you showing your wife different ways of slicing a cucumber! Most men would cringe at seeing their wife take a knife to a long veg like that! :rotfl: I use one of those crinkle cutters so I can give my kids 'crinkly cuke' as they call it! :j

Well we were both restaurant inspectors for a very well-known food guide for a number of years, and I was discussing a way that Nico Ladenis had prepared "bootlaces of cucumber" with a salmon dish. He was famous for not putting salt or pepper on the table, and saying that the customer was not always right.

He was at Chez Nico in Shinfield at the time, which subsequently was owned by John Burton Race and re-named l'Ortolan, so it must have been 1985 or 1986 when I ate there. He moved back to London after one of his female Shinfield diners was making her way unsteadily towards the toilets, slightly the worse for wear, and a diner called her over in the mistaken belief that she was a waitress. She yelled something across the restaurant along the lines of "Fack off you cant! I ain't no facking waitress!", at which point Nico or his wife apparently decided that some Berkshire diners weren't really their ideal clientele for a high-end restaurant. Oddly many of these facts about him seem to have been "overlooked" on his Wikipedia page :rotfl:

I've never seen these "bootlaces of cucumber" on a restaurant menu subsequently, so I was saying to Saint Margaret that I assumed that they would be hellishly difficult to keep intact as one long "bootlace" when they were being parboiled. My wife is a great cook (better than me) and we were discussing, and demonstrating, various ways that we had prepared cucmber ourselves. Yes, I must admit that when Saint Margaret was creating cucumber shavings from the edge of that big cucumber with a potato-peeler it did momentarily bring a tear to my eye :eek: :rotfl:

Drat, another wall of text

CheCazzo

If nothing else it sounds like an interesting life RR

sarahj1986

I suppose some fruit/veg when grow in a warm climate is likely to get damaged when stored in a cold fridge. I always think how it's kept in supermarkets, if it's chilled I chill it if not then I don't

While we are on facts did you know that you shouldn't keep bananas with the fruit as it gives off a certain gas or chemical which makes other fruit ripen more quickly...

softpad

sarahj1986 wrote: »

I suppose some fruit/veg when grow in a warm climate is likely to get damaged when stored in a cold fridge. I always think how it's kept in supermarkets, if it's chilled I chill it if not then I don't

While we are on facts did you know that you shouldn't keep bananas with the fruit as it gives off a certain gas or chemical which makes other fruit ripen more quickly...

however, if you hang bananas up on a banana hook they don't give off so much of the gas and keep longer :T

BlueBella

I don't eat bananas because I have a phobia of finding a tarantula hiding in a bunch - so I won't even pick up a bunch, let alone eat one! I wonder why the gas doesn't knock out the tarantulas!

Soosieboo

Talking of bananas... If you find them hard to open (open from the end that joins them together) go to the other end and pinch and pull the skin apart.

I didn't know about this until about a month ago!

Roger_Rampant

Defoe wrote: »

Reckon your wife has to be a saint R-R......:).

Well at least I do actually post competitions here, unlike some, so it's not all bad news

aurorablues

BlueBella wrote: »

I don't eat bananas because I have a phobia of finding a tarantula hiding in a bunch - so I won't even pick up a bunch, let alone eat one! I wonder why the gas doesn't knock out the tarantulas!

:rotfl:

Me too!!

I get the Other Half to check them thoroughly in store :cool:

hamsterfan1

how does the weather know it's a bank holiday?

robbies_gal

i always keep my cucumber in the fridge even though its not stored in the shop there-otherwise once u cut it it goes squishy