Consider the aubergine

[Guest]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/apr/26/food-and-drink

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...food-and-drink

Not terribly keen, tbh - texture and flavourwise rather like marrow, or artichoke - well-named for making an arty bloke choke.

[Nick Armstrong]

Consider the aubergine

Random !!

Never cared for them particularly, it's always a slight disappointment to come across them in one's moussaka.

But then again, I really like a good garlicky melitzanosalata on warm pitta bread.

You pays your money, and you takes your choice - as with aubergines, so with Life, I find.

[amateur51]

Random !!

Never cared for them particularly, it's always a slight disappointment to come across them in one's moussaka.

But then again, I really like a good garlicky melitzanosalata on warm pitta bread.

You pays your money, and you takes your choice - as with aubergines, so with Life, I find.

Posh git! He means 'roasted aubergine, olive oil n garlic dip', innit

[Nick Armstrong]

Posh git! He means 'roasted aubergine, olive oil n garlic dip', innit

I knew you'd be along afore long, sticking yer great aubergine in, ammy!!

[Don Petter]

I have considered it, but have no wish to proceed to physical contact.

[amateur51]

I knew you'd be along afore long, sticking yer great aubergine in, ammy!!

Aeons ago, while you were still wearing gaiters, young Caliban, a group of friends & I ventured into deepest South London (Ok Chelsea) dressed as nuns and sat in the front row of The Rocky Horror Picture Show audience joining in & got several cast members to corpse as we bobbed up & down with our brandished aubergines

[Nick Armstrong]

Aeons ago, while you were still wearing gaiters, young Caliban, a group of friends & I ventured into deepest South London (Ok Chelsea) dressed as nuns and sat in the front row of The Rocky Horror Picture Show audience joining in & got several cast members to corpse as we bobbed up & down with our brandished aubergines

[Chris Newman]

Added to a dish the aubergine (like Okra) is 'orrible, bitter and slimy. They are the only fruit (some call them vegetables) that I actually dislike. Aubergine is almost bearable grilled/toasted having lost its bitterness and sliminess but even then only tastes of the oil used to coat it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

They're gorgeous (like nutty apples) if cooked really fresh. (Same thing applies to okra, Chris - there's an Indian restaurant in Newcastle Emlyn whose Bindhi Bajee is to kill for!)

Either more than a day old has to be drenched in sauce: Aubergine in Black Bean Sauce with a scattering of sesame seeds particularly recommended.

Best Wishes.

[vinteuil]

I have considered it, but have no wish to proceed to physical contact.

ah, the 'aubergine', or 'moroccan suppository' as some wags have it...

Actually, baba ganoush and imam bayeldi are - as we say in W12 - well good...

[Nick Armstrong]

ah, the 'aubergine', or 'moroccan suppository' as some wags have it...

[salymap]

It takes a lot to put me off moussaka but............

Anyway the only great moussaka was from a little Greek cafe in Soho I used to visit a lot. Their baclava [sp] was yummy too.

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyway the only great moussaka was from a little Greek cafe in Soho I used to visit a lot. Their baclava [sp] was yummy too.

Not Jimmy the Greek's in that basement in Frith St opposite Ronnie Scott's?! Great place, still going strong (now known just as Jimmy's)... had some good times in there myself!

[Don Petter]

ah, the 'aubergine', or 'moroccan suppository' as some wags have it...

Well really! I hadn't even considered that physical contact. Even less of a convert, then.