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Behemoth



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Don't laugh - it works.

What?

 
tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

OMG

 
Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Whatever happened to the simple act of lifting a cheek?

Add that to an innocent look and any social faux pas can be averted.

 
Penny Outskirts



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

nettie wrote:


A mute for your bottom burps!!! Penny that's priceless.

"Wouldn't you explode eventually" - think you'd be OK on that one....it said "onto" rather than "into"


Thanks Nettie, but credit for finding it must go to Cab- I just loved it and felt the need to post it

 
Penny Outskirts



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jerusalem artichokes and cotton wool for tea then!

 
Fee



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


 
Gervase



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hmm. And if you made a sort of 'tea bag' of your 4cm of cloth, with activated charcoal filling, you could probably mute the whiff as well.
By crikey, chaps, I think we've just invented something that will make us a million!
*fanfare*
The Acme "Guff-Gone" Flatulence Neutraliser.

Now if only we could get a "By Royal Appointment..." warrant on the box, we'd be quids in with the American market.

 
cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

At the risk of dragging the discussion our of the dark crevice where it has gone to, has anyone got a Jerusalem artichoke soup recipe that they think might be good? My own recipe is a simple variant on potato soup.

 
tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What's the nutritional breakdown on 'em?

 
cab



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fairly typical bulk root vegetable from a nutritional perspective:
https://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s01w8.html

 
wellington womble



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Too late for this week, but if I order from the box scheme tonight, They'll come next week. We'll have them on Friday (weekend is safest, I fear, although i can always blame the patients, and some of them could do with corks, quite frankly!)

Ho long do the effects generally last for (will I be safe by Monday?)

 
cab



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Normally the side effects hit me within an hour or two, and she gets them later in the evening or even in the morning. Don't last long, though. Although as I say, the curry didn't have any impact. Might be on to something there... Artichoke and cardamon soup, perhaps...

 
2steps



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Location: Surrey
PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

thank you judith and cab am going to look in the market for one tomorrow

 
gil
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 05 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The challenge round here will be finding some on sale, never mind cooking them or surviving the after-effects. I feel a cross-border shopping trip coming on (and there is a farmers' market near Carlisle this Saturday)

 
gil
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 05 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Back in the right thread :
I cooked some of the artichokes yesterday evening - kept it simple for the first taste : artichoke and potato mash, with butter, spring onion, some peas, bit of sage, black pepper and a grating of nutmeg. Grand. Subtle, nutty taste that I wasn't expecting.

To tempt fate, I also ate some raw (thin slices), which I thought was quite pleasant - cross between a water chestnut and ? Going to try roasted later in the week, which Nigel Slater suggests is good.

No after-effects.

Definitely going to grow some next year. A good challenge. How're other folk getting on with theirs ?

 
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