Crispy Seaweed

[andrew1707]

Did you know that crispy seaweed that you get from the Chinese takeaway is not actually seaweed...it's cabbage!!

I feel cheated. But after the horse-meat scandal perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.

[ummmm]

Yes...I knew that :-)

[andrew1707]

The web of deceit grows bigger!!!

[rockyracoon]

I knew that too, it's pak choi I think.

[snags]

Something fishy about Bombay Duck...

[SlackAlice]

Yes I knew that, but I still like it.

Have tasted the genuine article on various visits to Asia Pacific countries and it tastes completely different, but it's still nice.

[ummmm]

It's kale I think.

My aunty's best mates parents ran a Chinese takeaway so I've always known what it is.

[AB Editor]

I think it's fairly well known.

It's the shredded pork they pop on top that you want anyway - that's the good stuff :)

[FredPuli43]

Wonder who translated cabbage as seaweed? Not someone in marketing; offer someone laver bread and tell them that it's seaweed and they instantly turn their noses up at it. Bombay duck is easier to explain; it's the British and foreign languages (Flushing for Vlissingen etc). Duck was 'tak'.

[andrew1707]

I always thought I was being brave by trying seaweed.

We didn't have much in the way of foreign / exotic food when I was young. Mum wouldn't have pasta in the house as it reminded her of being force-fed tinned spagetti by the nuns in the convent during the war. Curry came in a vesta packet.
On the plus side we always had 3 types of sausage for Sunday breakfast: links, square and round.

Mustn't get Wolf onto the subject of our mums culinary habits.....

[McMouse]

I chomped into one of the carved carrots in our local Chinese and it turned out to be made of wax. Barstewards.

[mccfluff]

tinned pasta is the devils work

[Bbbananas]

McM, you always make me laugh x

[2sp_]

I had no idea either, andrew!

Mr P will be gutted. He's only just discovered crispy seaweed, and is fair chuffed with himself (and the kids) for liking it so much.

[wolf63]

I remember being at a friend s house and bring Fed tinned macaroni in chess sauce. I thought it was dead posh.

Mum could make really good soups, mince based meals and stews. She excelled at all of these.

I remember her once made a Vests curry - she said that she had added a tub of curry powder to spice it up. :-( :-)

I thought crispy seaweed was seaweed. However I used to think that there was beef in beefburgers.

[wolf63]

Excuse the obvious errors in the. above text. Why can't the Kindle just use the words that I type instead of changing them. Stupid fekkin machine.