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Skriven 2007-09-27 16:48:18 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
  Kommentar till text 20677 av Joan Macdiarmid (1:18/200)
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 >  Hi, Barbara,

 >>  Allergies I understand. Some just don't like them.
 >> Barbara McNay has
 >>  gone on record as not caring for them because of the
 >> seeds  and gooshy

 >  BM> Nope, that was somebody else.  When I eat Roma tomatoes whole out of
 >  BM> hand, I bite a hole first, then suck out all the yummy seeds so they
 >  BM> don't goosh out and get lost.  I like to chew on them.

 >  Oops, beg pardon. I do get lost sometimes
 >  as to who is saying what.

Me, too, and I've noticed we're in good company!

 >>What I can't understand is why these people are so
 >> worried about my harvesting the 'maters if they don't much like them?

 >  BM> Because they think you don't know better than "what *everybody*
 >  BM> knows."

 >  The little girl barely knows what they are! She keeps
 >  calling them potatoes! Ha! Too bad I can't plant

Sounds like she's not sure what potatoes are, either.  She must be a product of
the manufactured food age.

 >  potatoes next year, to show them how they grow! But
 >  I suspect too many would grow out into the lawn area
 >  so I couldn't harvest without tearing the grass up.
 >  My gardening is necessarily limited, as I have a
 >  foot or so of ground to plant in, alongside my
 >  apartment, and the sun is limited there. I figure
 >  no vines, because they would trail out into the grass
 >  and get hit by lawnmowers, and no underground crops
 >  like potatoes or yams. Maybe I might try for an early
 >  crop of spinach next year, though. And I sometimes do
 >  herbs in porch pots.

If your porch is big enough for a half whiskey barrel, you might be able to
grow a potato/peanut/yam/whatever there.  Wouldn't be a large crop, of course,
but would be educational.

 >>I am not dangerously allergic, but somewhat sensitive to a couple of
 >>fruits I really like anyway. Light green fruits, though I suppose
 >>that's a  coincidence. I adore honeydew melons which give me a sore
 >>throat (my Gramma said that happened for her, too), and Kiwis, which
 >>cause the insides of my ears to itch!

 >  BM> My understanding is that Kiwis contain a protein-digesting enzyme,
 >  BM> like pineapples and papaya, so maybe that is causing the itch.  Lemon

 >  But I eat pineapples and papaya with no problem, so
 >  maybe that's not the specific problem for me.

Strange.  I haven't eaten raw papaya, I don't believe, but I can eat only so
much raw pineapple before my mouth gets sore.  I haven't eaten enough Kiwis at
one sitting to tell whether they bother me.

 >  BM> meringue pie I don't eat because it makes my throat feel weird; fresh
 >  BM> cooked spinach sets my teeth on edge--makes them feel gritty or
 >  BM> something.

 >  I think we all get the funny tooth feel from spinach,
 >  not gritty (unless your spinach was sandy) but sort
 >  of as if the enamel had been roughened a bit, right?

Yes, not sand.  This characteristic seems to be largely absent from canned
spinach, and absent from fresh chard, which I like better for that reason,
among others.

 >  I have a feeling that's from oxalic acid derivatives,
 >  which are the reason rhubarb greens are supposed to
 >  be toxic. Not enough in spinach to be a problem, and
 >  may be why spinach is such a good source of iron,
 > which
 >  is easily complexed with those oxalates.

Wouldn't that make the iron less available?

 >>  She also had worried I wasn't picking them early
 >> enough. Maybe she never
 >>  appreciated tomatoes ripened on the vine all the way,
 >> but presumed
 >>  pinkish supermarket rocks were the proper norm for
 >> tomato ripeness.

We had friends watching our garden while we were gone, once; I told them some
of the tomatoes were a red variety, and some, orange.  When we returned, they
raved about the tomatoes.  Something they said let me know that they had
thought the underripe red variety were the orange ones.

 >  BM> I was infuriated once when my ex picked all the green peppers.  He
 >  BM> didn't like peppers, but didn't consider that I might want them ripe,
 >  BM> or at least still on the plants and not deteriorating in the fridge.

 >  Not grounds for divorce by itself, but it does sound
 >  as though you two were not communicating effectively!
 >  However, husbands seem to do stuff like that in all
 >  cases, once in a while. I remember Dad coming in to
 >  announce he had "weeded" a little back garden spot
 >  where Mom had recently planted a selection of ivies
 >  and stuff that she had taken cuttings of from her own
 >  mother's garden and nursed all the way from Michigan
 >  to Alabama. He got them all!

Ouch!

 >  Did you chop and freeze the peppers for cooking,
 >  at least?

I don't remember, at this late date.  I probably ate them.

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