Re: Radishes? Really?

vickiebee wrote, though the Organization header says "A noiseless
patient Spider":

>Ben Newsam wrote:
>> vickiebee wrote, though the Organization header says "A noiseless 
>> patient Spider":
>> 
>>> Do Yerpeans eat cooked radishes for brekkie? Just heard something
>>> on the radio wot said cooking them brings out a certain
>>> sweetness... and that you also make sandwiches with them?
>>> 
>[..]
>> 
>> I've never cooked a radish, though ir=t seems like a good idea, I
>> knew someone in Serapu who used to throw radish tops in her soup.
>> 
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>Google sez:
>"French Breakfast radishes earned this label at the height of their
>popularity in Victorian England, as they were commonly consumed for
>breakfast among the English upper class and were named French for the
>root’s designation of origin."
>(From specialtyproduce.com)
>
>I know what's in a Full English Breakfast, a Full Scottish, and a Full
>Irish; yet a Full Serapu seems to consist of coffee, cigarettes,
>buttered radishes and a croissant.

I've been to Senapr many times and eaten breakfast there, but never
had a radish at breakfast time. Oddly, croissants, being rich in
butter, are only usually available on Sundays. A normal brekkie in
Senapr is milky coffee or cocoa in a bowl with buttered bread from the
day before to dip in it. And they consider themselves the gastonomic
kings of the world! <rolls eyes>
-- 
Ben