Do you miss foods from around the world - where do you get them?

Food/Drink/Culinaria
,
223

2027: The Great French Horseradish Plague continues unabated.

Toulouse is the latest city to succumb to an unstoppable avalanche of horseradish plants. Despite heavy use by the Armée de L’Air of napalm and defoliant sprays, the Place St Etienne and the Grand Rond are now impassable except on foot with a machete.

Périgueux, Nancy and large parts of Rouen are now also completely cut off and can only be discerned in outline from space.

The Président is considering the use of nuclear weapons to to halt the spread, as well as the imprisonment or deportation of any Brits found with plants in their back gardens or potagers.

Also, farmers are to be encouraged to plant hedges of Japanese knotweed to keep the horseradish at bay.

4 Likes
224

Glad you are all buying local or home producing. Shipping is to blame for a lot of pollution. Whilst gut microbiome diversity is currently praised, very little of our development was ever done that way and our parents and grandparents did ok.

225

All peppered on the home front , I’ll send out before early spring salad lettuce by the hundreds for those in the network. Code Bazoches, keep this among yourselves, keep it mum

226

For veg, it’s difficult to do otherwise.

It’s been interesting, having a relatively small variety.

227

I enjoy eating seasonally, one appreciates foods much more when they’re only available for a couple of months every year. That’s one of the many pleasures of buying on markets rather than in supermarkets. Where’s the joy in eating Peruvian asparagus in November?

1 Like
228

Especially when you’ve had two months of nothing but local asparagus!

Our local supplier also sells a soup and a cream, which is good for pasta.

Unfortunately they don’t do green asparagus. But others do.

229

Thanks Chris.. it’s a strange thing isn’t it, one can’t under why the brain can’t tell the throat what to to do and be obeyed!!

Courage to you too :heart:

1 Like
230

Thanks Alan - mine is very mild in comparison to your situation, I only have a problem with firmer meat such as steak or pork, if I get distracted and don’t chew them fully.

I had an endoscopy exam two weeks ago and they found a constriction - next step is an X-ray and then they might inflate my throat with a balloon which will be fun (not!)

231

Great for hard deposits like bone or calcium but not so good for soft tissue. Still that’s the NHS procedure, later they may use a CT or MRI.

232

It involves a “barium swallow” so I think that will show what’s needed. They said the endoscopy was an “unsuccessful intubation” but since they found a “constriction” I’m not sure why. Probably because they were not able to shove the bloody thing all the way down to my stomach! :frowning:

233

Ah yes, that changes things, the barium contrast will probably show in real time what is going on. Good luck with that Chris.

My mother was given a camera pill to swallow, like a large licorice comfit, a lot nicer than the camera mind you it’s the lighting and sound crew that are the nuisance

4 Likes
234

Indeed - I find it’s normally the second assistant director who is an arse. :smiley:

(they get transferred from the colonoscopy department and get ideas above their station…)

4 Likes
235

I do sympathise. I absolutely hated it. Bon rétablissement!

1 Like
236

Merci!!

237

@Alan_Dargie Wishing you a speedy and full recovery.

1 Like
238

Thanks Lily!