General Chat

Oh yes, those American breakfasts are something to behold

That would be nice Persie, might try that :-)

not a fan of swede or turnips. Guess I could eat them mashed with potato and garlic butter.

I've seen American's pour maple syrup over a cooked breakfast, sausage, bacon, egg etc.

Oh yes, swede and mash is nice

I like good old fashioned swede mixed in with mash potatoes

US of A does weird very well.

First café, lunch bar or whatever I went to served jelly on a lettuce leaf surround with cottage cheese.

And they would put apples in fruit salad.. I do not like apples or bananas in my fruit salad.

That all sounds very weird Persie

You can buy yams here, so assume we grow them.. I would be the only one that would eat them probably.

I was very nearly put off them as my first taste of them was candied yams at Thanksgiving.. they also had grated carrot in a "dessert" jelly. They do have some strange flavour combinations.

I had to look kumara up. We would call it sweet potato, I buy them and use them fairly often. It isn't warm enough to grow them in this country

Diced in corned beef hash..hmmmm lovely

or diced with crumbed feta over it.. if I see that on a menu as a side dish I have to have it.

Roasts at restaurants here always have baked potato, baked pumpkin and baked kumara.

I only like it in soup, not baked or boiled

Pumpkin soup with a dollop of sour cream.. lovely

I will eat it baked, steamed or boiled and when the children were small I would sometimes mash it with potatoes but neither of them like it. Himself likes pumpkin soup but gives pumpkin a miss.. whereas I grew up with it.. we had our own veges all year round.

We sometimes grow pumpkins on the allotment, they are good in soup

Mangoes are grown here, just about anything grows here.

When I was small I used to go up the road to one of the fruit shops and play with my Indian friend. They lived above the shop, they gave me some mango to eat. Had never had it before, and I went home and told my mother that I had had cold pumpkin, but I thought it was raw but it wasn't hard like our pumpkins.

Now that's a vegetable I love "pumpkin" ... but the rest of the world (well the US) seems to think they are only for Halloween.

Any fruit from it's country of origin is always better than something which has been in cold store

Always too many mangoes in those baskets/boxes, so lots are given away, but they are much bigger and nicer than we can buy here.

We haven't got a decent supermarket, and I don't get to any markets.

I expect they are available in places like Sainsbury's, Morrison's, and Waitrose etc

OH often used to bring a box of mangoes back from India on the plane. We didn't really want that many, but people were always giving him a box

Hello Persie, for some reason I thought pommies would be common down under :-D

They are always in the supermarkets and on the market stalls at this time of year Tec, well up here they are