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But the plastic also contains a little note that lets you know where the vegetable is from. If it isn't wrapped then you have no idea if it's from some sunny patch of heaven in Chile or a luminescent patch of radioactive death in Chernobyl.

Green peppers from any European supermarket I've bought them at were always bitter.


Green peppers from the Cash and Carry are actually sweet, and sweeter than the red ones you get at the supermarket.


That being said, just because something isn't wrapped in plastic doesn't mean the origin isn't known. I mean, we used to have a shop and labeled everything by origin; the same is true for a lot of market stands and the street stands in Southall have most things labeled, too.


The only store I know that actually puts the farm things came from on the packaging is Marks & Spencer's and that's just... really expensive.

FTFY

No offense to the greengrocers out there, but my experience tells me that, at least over here, the origin of the products available in such shops is largely questionable. If a small greengrocer sells unwrapped bell peppers cheaper than the pre-wrapped ones in the supermarket then something's up.

And yes, I realize that the label on a pre-wrapped product can be just as fake as the one on an unwrapped product, but at least there's a minuscule chance that it's actually true on the label from some big shipping company. The greengrocer might not care about the legal repercussions of selling falsely labeled products, but the shipping company has to.

Also, all it takes to contract e. coli is for you to eat one bell pepper grown in someone's backyard and fertilized/watered with sewage. Apparently, human ***** is not meant to be ingested. Go figure.

I think it's funny that Maz trusts pre-packaged veg more, while I can't stand the stuff.

Maybe my mentality is because I grew up in a shop that had much higher quality foods, loose, and from much more reputable sources than any supermarket.

I realise not every shop is like that, and I know a few where I had pretty bad experiences. It's just... half the fruit and veg you get at the small stores you can't get at supermarkets at all.

I do buy my carrots & leek at supermarkets usually, because I can never remember when the market is open, but I don't think I've ever seen a real mango in a supermarket, for example.


Edit: Also, yeah, there's the plan to move to Pakistan. Lol FWP.

Edited, Jul 12th 2011 4:09pm by Kalivha

Actually, pilau doesn't really have much of a sauce. It's awesome. I eat it all the time.


Also finally got my Google+ account. Heh.

Talking about rice, I've never tasted Sake and I'm dying to try it.
and Sushi aswell! I've never had it. :(

Edited, Jul 12th 2011 1:40pm by smunks

And harvested unripe like a lot of other fruit from the far corners of the world.

We've been to outer space, but we still can't get a mango from India to Europe before they rot unless harvested unripe and ripened on the way.

Big sumbishes that vary from sour as hell to sweet and delicious.

Yeah, those are African mangoes, I think.

The Indian/Pakistani ones look really yellow on the outside and (at least by the time they get to Southall and such) kind of wrinkly.

Apparently we sell all these types:
http://www.todafruta.com.br/portal/icNoticiaAberta.asp?idNoticia=18323
But we only produce these:
http://www.todafruta.com.br/portal/icNoticiaAberta.asp?idNoticia=20700

Hmmm...Im hungry now.

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I bet there are a bunch of things you would love. =D

Not exactly DE'd, more likely banked. It's a BoE.
About the staff, I'm pretty much around the last one to be able to get it. I have 7 or 8 people ahead of me. So....yeah, probably never going to see it.
The other Moonkin in my raid will got his first stage yesterday, I think. He was 3 away or something like that.