Whats Your Opinion

[teacake44]

Back in the 60s /70s when my mum was washing and preparing/cutting salad, especially cucumber and celery you got that lovely smell even if you were in another room, also when you walked through open markets where you had lots of veg stalls. Today there don't seem to be any aroma even if you stick it half way up your nose, as for the taste, well, very little, and very bland. Do you find this or is it just a case of getting a little older and smell and taste tends to desert us?

[tiggerblue10]

Do corn fed chickens taste any different? I've never bought them or organic ones.

[Canary42]

You can't rule out production methods and blame older taste buds, stuff I grow in the garden tastes far richer than supermarket pulp.

[237SJ]

I don't think corn fed chx taste any different.

[ummmm]

Organic ones do. Corn fed free range are slightly better than free range. I wouldn't eat any other than those 3.

[237SJ]

Ummm - yes organic are probably nicer

[Togo]

Ta TC44. Peas and Broad Beans are another taste bud zinger after eating supermarket offerings. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate that the big brand shops provide a lot of produce that many folk would not have a chance to sample. It is also not what you might call a time and motion, and economic option for a lot of people. I am 73 and well retired. The veg garden, and the annual game with the weather and pests is as much a pastime and test, plus a statement of hope over circumstance, as much as anything else. The taste and texture of anything that survives my attention is a wonderful bonus. Broad beans, new potatoes, and a bit of bacon with a glass of Rose on a warm summer evening is as good as Christmas.

[barry1010]

I grow most of our fruit and veg and it all smells and tastes as it should

[barry1010]

On the plus side, houses no longer stink of boiled cabbage

[teacake44]

^ I remember my mum pouring the cabbage water into cups when we were little and we would drink it once cooled down a little.

[anneasquith]

My father drank cabbage water. He maintained it was very healthy .

[Peter Pedant]

// Are you wearing one of your surgical grade masks ?//
clever one liner
but as usual on AB complete crap of course

any surgical mask does NOT give a gas seal -a nd so a smell and tear gas actually will find a way froo

why or how - oh just take it from me- I worked at Porton Down