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SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:36 pm

It's a bloody aubergine. Anyone who thinks that it even vaguely resembles an egg in any way whatsoever must be an...an...American...

Steve

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:08 pm

Walden wrote:
sweet potato wrote:When I lived in Scotland I called it an aubergine. Now living in Norway.....it is still called aubergine!
It comes from the Persian: بادنجان

How 'Bad-n-jon was chanbed to aubergine is beond me.

بادنجان

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:18 pm

The Weekenders wrote:If you live in the US, you call it an eggplant. If you live in England or France, you call it an aubergine. In Italy it's a melanzana. In India it's a brinjal. I don't know any other furrin' words for it.

(Simultaneous post.)

India, like Europe, has more than one language. We also call it baigan (pronounced: baygun). Your furry wardrobe is getting larger.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:21 pm

SteveShaw wrote:It's a bloody aubergine. Anyone who thinks that it even vaguely resembles an egg in any way whatsoever must be an...an...American...

Steve

or a gringo denizen of the 53rd state down under

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:23 pm

talasiga wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:It's a bloody aubergine. Anyone who thinks that it even vaguely resembles an egg in any way whatsoever must be an...an...American...

Steve
or a gringo denizen of the 53rd state down under

What are the 51st and 52nd states?

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:30 pm

Cranberry wrote: What are the 51st and 52nd states?

Eggplant and Zucchini?
No? How about Aubergine and Courgette?
Okra and Gumbo?

Would you believe Alaska and Hawaii?

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:33 pm

talasiga wrote:
Cranberry wrote: What are the 51st and 52nd states?
Eggplant and Zucchini?
No? How about Aubergine and Courgette?
Okra and Gumbo?

Would you believe Alaska and Hawaii?

No, they're the 49th and 50th states, since Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia aren't states.

State number 51 and 52 don't exist (yet, anyway).

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:45 pm

There's always the state of grace and the state of sin. Sorry, just something I recalled from my youth...

Steve

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:53 pm

SteveShaw wrote:There's always the state of grace and the state of sin. Sorry, just something I recalled from my youth...

Steve

and the state of denial and of confusion and...

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:11 pm

Cranberry wrote:
talasiga wrote:
Cranberry wrote: What are the 51st and 52nd states?
....................... Alaska and Hawaii?
No, they're the 49th and 50th states, since Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia aren't states.

State number 51 and 52 don't exist (yet, anyway).

Oh!

To think that I eat EGGPLANTS and still I am an ignoramus when it comes to the US.
I will never succeed in my Purple Card application at this rate!

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:16 pm

I.D.10-t wrote:
Walden wrote:
sweet potato wrote:When I lived in Scotland I called it an aubergine. Now living in Norway.....it is still called aubergine!
It comes from the Persian: بادنجان
How 'Bad-n-jon was chanbed to aubergine is beond me.

بادنجان

It went through a few languages in between there. From Persian it went to al-badhinjan in Arabic, and from there to albergínia in Catalan and from there to aubergine in French.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:20 pm

I call it "yechhh!" One of the few vegetables (the others being okra, zucchini and mushrooms...yeah, I know mushrooms aren't a veggie, but still...) that I can't stand in any form. And yes, I've had it cooked every which way, including several methods that "people who don't like eggplant just love!"

One of the sad things is that people assume vegetarians are just wild for things made with these nasty veggies. If I get offered one more hideous veggie lasagne loaded with eggplant and zucchini, or "burger" made from portobello mushrooms, I may just have a nervous breakdown! Gag, gag, gag! Tongue on the carpet time!

Redwolf

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:02 pm

We often use eggplant in the shrine to represent the cardinal colour black. I much prefer it to over-ripe bananas.

djm

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:30 pm

I wonder if Mohammed extolled the virtues of eggplant. I have not yet had time to read the Qu'ran. As it is, Hindu scriptures take a lifetime to read and several reincarnations to realise.

I have heard that a Turkish imam fainted when he first tasted eggplant. There is a famous Middle Eastern dish called "imam biyaldi" which means just that. If Americans such as redwolf simply learnt to make dellicious dishes with eggplant they could win over the middle east.

The eggplant, in fact, is the threshold to international peace .....

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:35 pm

Redwolf wrote:I call it "yechhh!" One of the few vegetables (the others being okra, zucchini and mushrooms...yeah, I know mushrooms aren't a veggie, but still...) that I can't stand in any form. And yes, I've had it cooked every which way, including several methods that "people who don't like eggplant just love!"

One of the sad things is that people assume vegetarians are just wild for things made with these nasty veggies. If I get offered one more hideous veggie lasagne loaded with eggplant and zucchini, or "burger" made from portobello mushrooms, I may just have a nervous breakdown! Gag, gag, gag! Tongue on the carpet time!

Redwolf

I tried to eat one of those mushroom burgers the other day. It made me want to puke, poke my eyes out, and jump of a bridge at the same time. I am now utterly convinced that portabella mushrooms are, as they say, of the devil.

This is a portabella mushroom for those who don't know:

Can't you just see the face of Satan in it? That's how they taste--like Satan's face!

(And no amount of soy sauce can help them...)