10 veg a day

[steveo]

I didn't know there were ten vegetables

[????]

Blood Mary - Celery

Pimms - cucumber and Orange

Gin and Tonic - Lemon

Mexican Beer - Lime

Strawberry Daquari - Strawberry

there's six for a start

[steveo]

What about chicken?

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Carton of Five Alive, plus what ????'s said gives you 11.

[Salsaboy]

Does bacon count?

[Loz]

I'm sure chips and tomato ketchup counts as two.

[Salsaboy]

Bacon cooked in vegetable oil?

[DulwichFox]

More than enough

http://www.dogtagart.com/sites/default/files/story/peas.jpg?1294243651

Foxy

[El Pibe]

quids, bloody marys have tomato juice if im not mistaken, so that's seven, in fact if you get a good potato based vodka.....

[BrandNewGuy]

steveo Wrote:

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> What about chicken?

Folk song collector Cecil Sharp met people who believed this to be true when he visited the Appalachians a hundred years ago:

"His missionary zeal also took him on several self-financed trips to the US, where he found another rich harvest of English songs imported by settlers.

One can only conjecture about the discomfort and indignity that Sharp, an asthmatic vegan, suffered in his quest, tramping up muddy tracks in the Appalachian mountains, where one community tried to convince him chicken was a vegetable."

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/16/cecil-sharp-morris-men

[Jah Lush]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> quids, bloody marys have tomato juice if im not

> mistaken, so that's seven, in fact if you get a

> good potato based vodka.....

A tomato is a fruit, old fruit.

[Drxyster]

Ten Portions of Fruit and or Vegetables !!!!!!!!!

"Terry's Chocolate Orange" ?

Duck a l'orange

Cadbury's "Fruit & Nut"

Lager and Lime

Guinness and Blackcurrant

[El Pibe]

but a fruit is a vegetable.

supersets and subsets, not mutual exclusivity innit.

[womanofdulwich]

I don't think a fruit is a vegetable or we would not have the tomato question would we????

[BrandNewGuy]

But is the tomato animal, vegetable or mineral? In that sense it's vegetable.

[steveo]

Mmm, tomato animal

[uncleglen]

If you eat 250g of tomatoes the terpenes in it give you body odour for a week. And I am crying because potatoes do not count as veg. but as starch. To count broccoli as one of the 7 a day you have to eat a portion the size of a cauliflower (a middle sized one I imagine) I am a supertaster and all that green stuff makes me gag- I am going to die........

[Robert Poste's Child]

Kale is the worst. Makes me feel like a donkey eating thistles.

[giggirl]

Sorry to poop the vegetable-dissing party, but the fact is that our digestive systems were made for us to exist on a diet primarily made up of fruit and vegetables. We don't eat nearly enough - the so called "5 a day is laughable". Worse, lots of supermarket produce is imported so it's picked before it's ripe so that it doesn't rot on the journey. I picked up a bag of lettuce the other day and it had come from the US! What are we doing importing lettuce from America - that should be coming from English growers. It's not a matter of patriotism; you source your fruit and veg as close to home as possible so that it doesn't have so far to travel and has maximum nutrients.

If you really can't stomach eating vegetables, then buy a decent blender, make a green smoothie and knock it back quick.

Fact is, as a nation we're over-fed and mal-nourished.

[KidKruger]

Interesting paradox GG and unfortunately probably accurate.

[Nigello]

Beetroot juice - cut with ten percent apple juice (all organic) - is surprisingly tasty and good for you. A bit of that, some yoghurt, a handful of spinach and a teaspoon of pure coocao powder is a really easy way of getting going in the morning. Three eggs, some milk, a small bunch of spring onions and a handful of mushrooms is a very simple but tasty getting two a day.

Agree with gg that we are overfed and undernourished, and would add that fetishising and demonising certain foods/drinks is not healthy, in any way.