Let's play.........desert island vegetables

[wee quinnie]

A friend of mine was telling me they went to a Xmas dinner do with someones veggie family and a VERY VERY heated debate ensued over the topic of.....desert island vegetables, (along the lines of "desert island discs").

So, without further ado...

WHAT ARE YOUR 5 DESERT ISLAND VEGETABLES?

Mine are:

1. Onions

2. Potatoes

3. Spinach

4. Mushrooms

5. Tomatoes*

* Ok - I know that technically they are fruit, rather than vegetables, but I'm not gonna put them in a fruit salad.

[2degreesfrommadness]

Agree with potatoes and onions: think my other three would be peas, asparagus and either courgettes or marrows in case Man Friday doesnt turn up!

[SimonM]

Baked Beans in tomato sauce (Crosse & Blackwell for preference)

Petits Pois

Swede

Onions

Potatoes

[benjaminty]

oooooh this is not easy....

Peas

Tomatoes

Red Onions

Brocolli

Sweet Potatoes

I'm smuggling garlic other wise I might as well just make a raft and chance it....

2DFM - for your sake I hope Man Friday does turn up..... marrows go off quickly :-S

[Annasfield]

::o Marrows are huuuuge? ::o

[Bellenden Belle]

Onions

Brocolli

tomatoes

green pepper

avocado - I know it's a fruit but I just couldn't do without.

[PeckhamRose]

Can we add the bit where - when the waves crash to the shore and you have to rush and save just ONE FAVOURITE VEGETABLE what would it be?

My EIGHT Vegetables

Potatoes

Swede

Marrow

Corncobs

Parsnips

Carrots

Turnips

Peas

And I would save the Marrow.

You daft lot. HNY.

[dulwichmum]

I think as I am on my diet - it would be:

Brussels sprouts

Celeriac

Swede

Turnip

Asparagus

and I would save the Avocado

I feel slimmer already!

[bagpuss78]

1. Potatoes

2. Onions

3. Broccoli

4. Mushrooms

and last but by no means least, my beloved.......Brussle Spouts!

[wee quinnie]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> I think as I am on my diet - it would be:

>

> Brussels sprouts

> Celeriac

> Swede

> Turnip

> Asparagus

>

> and I would save the Avocado

>

> I feel slimmer already!

CHEEKY! That's 6! You can only save one of your five. As for picking 8 Peckham Rose - no! (Now you see why there was such a heated debate at the Xmas table mentioned in my original post). ;-)

Also, I am intrigued by everyone's postings...mine are all about practicality/versatility, but I am getting the vibe that the rest of you are going for favourites - although I am definitely not getting the whole swede/turnip fetish.

[Keef]

I'm not a big veg fan, but love fruit, so if you're allowed tomatoes and avocados, then I am taing bananas, oranges, melons, strawberries and pineapple.

I would save the oranges, and my luxury item would be a citrus press to make orange juice with.

[mockney piers]

are these the only vegetation on the island? If so that could seriously colour my list.

[Brendan]

Keef Wrote:

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> I'm not a big veg fan, but love fruit, so if

> you're allowed tomatoes and avocados, then I am

> taing bananas, oranges, melons, strawberries and

> pineapple.

You could argue that strawberries are actually a vegetable as the fleshy bit that we eat is a type of stem. Technically their ?fruit? are the little black dots on the outside.

[mockney piers]

Aaah, the old fruit/vegetable argument.

Had a big barney about this in the office once.

After some research it boiled down to vegetable being pretty much any part or all of any plant. Tuber, leaf, fruit, seed, no matter.

But a fruit is a matured vegetable ovary containing seeds.

So all fruits are vegetables (including your tomato), but obviously not vice versa. I think a strawberry fits onto the fruit definition, but can't guarantee as a botanist I ain't.

Traditionally a vegetable is a savoury thing in cookery, so I guess from whence the debate arises tomatolly.

Can't remember where mushrooms fit into all of this.

[PeckhamRose]

Oh yah boo sucks you rotten rule makers and breakers.

"although I am definitely not getting the whole swede/turnip fetish"

I make soup. On me desert island I'd make soup dammit and swedes and turnips and parsnips make great soup.

Talking of desert islands, what eight deserts would you take?

Blueberry cheesecake

Strawberry cheesecake

Lemon cheesecake

(see the pattern here?)

[SimonM]

>>Talking of desert islands, what eight deserts would you take? <<

Sachertorte

Profiteroles

Chocolare mousse

Chocolate eclairs

Chocolate fondue

Steamed chocolate sponge with hot chcolate sauce

Tarte au chocolat

Crepes with Curacao and chocolate sauce...

I too have a pattern... :))

[EDOldie]

mockney piers Wrote:

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>

> Can't remember where mushrooms fit into all of

> this.

Mushrooms are NOT vegetables or fruit but are Fungi.

Curly cale

Chillies

Onions

Courgettes

Cauliflower

I'd save the onions. I'd like to get to know them better.

[Brendan]

So if vegetarians only eat vegetables (which includes fruit) surely they shouldn?t eat mushrooms (or anything containing yeast for that matter) unless they call themselves fun-vegetarians (or something like that)

[Keef]

Mrs Keef would whole heartedly agree that no one in the world should eat mushrooms, she describes them as her nemesis! She's been veggie for 25+ years.

[Jah Lush]

What! Not even Sainsburys organic free range tinned cream magic mushrooms? Gasps!

Potatoes

Onions

Chillies

Mangetout

Peas

[Brendan]

What type of plant do pork pies grow on?

[EDOldie]

Actually no one's mentioned marijuana yet. Is it a vegetable? Lots of people cook with it, or so I'm told.

[Brendan]

Yeah it's a vegetable and a very handy one to have if you are going to be spending lots of time with nothing much to do.

[EDOldie]

What, like most of the people on this forum?

[mockney piers]

good point people

There's a good list here to which we can mentally add marijuana I reckon.

As for the rest of it I'm going to have to have

Garlic

Snake Gourd (no idea, but sounds funky)

Tomato

Chilli

Rice