Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[Drago]

A herb is dried clover for pretentious people who own shelves full of jazz Cd's and who sit in Starbucks pretending to work on their laptop when we all know they're really looking at North Korean bovine porn.

 

[mudsticks]

Does this mean you can definitively answer the great 'Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit' debate?

From a horticultural pov its a fruit, it has seeds contained within.

Culinarily it depends..

What is a friggin herb anyway? Why are grassy bits of not very tasty vegetable matter considered herbs?

Again it depends.

Herbaceous plants, are usually perennial or bienniel in their growth habit.

Dying down, in the winter, and then regrowing from the overwintering rootstock.

Herbs In the kitchen, it's free rein so long as the flavouring originates from, a leaf.

Culinary herbs can even come from trees such as bay leaf.

Spices usually originating from a seed or root.

 

[mudsticks]

A herb is dried clover for pretentious people who own shelves full of jazz Cd's and who sit in Starbucks pretending to work on their laptop when we all know they're really looking at North Korean bovine porn.

Classic case of projection there

Mr 'go

 

[Electric_Andy]

From a horticultural pov its a fruit, it has seeds contained within.

Culinarily it depends..



Again it depends.

Herbaceous plants, are usually perennial or bienniel in their growth habit.

Dying down, in the winter, and then regrowing from the overwintering rootstock.

Herbs In the kitchen, it's free rein so long as the flavouring originates from, a leaf.

Culinary herbs can even come from trees such as bay leaf.

Spices usually originating from a seed or root.

Interesting. So what are oxo cubes then?

 

[mudsticks]

Interesting. So what are oxo cubes then?

Cubed oxen, obv.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

So what are oxo cubes then?

Bleeding orrible that's what they are

 

[Andy in Germany]

Cubed oxen, obv.

Genetic engineering really has come on a bit hasn't it?

 

[Andy in Germany]

Bleeding orrible that's what they are

You know you aren't supposed to eat them out of the packet, right?

 

[mudsticks]

You know you aren't supposed to eat them out of the packet, right?

It doesn't say so on the packet..
So how on earth was he supposed to know ??

 

[Old jon]

It doesn't say so on the packet..

I never read an OXO packet

 

[newfhouse]

Interesting. So what are oxo cubes then?

Building materials. Never taken stock of the Oxo Tower?

 

[matticus]

Building materials. Never taken stock of the Oxo Tower?

I can't help suspecting that Wiki page has been cleaned up a bit in the recent past ...

 

[swee'pea99]

A herb is dried clover for pretentious people who own shelves full of jazz Cd's and who sit in Starbucks pretending to work on their laptop when we all know they're really looking at North Korean bovine porn.

Jazz records. Tch. CDs indeed <shudder>.

 

[matticus]

Is a jazz DVD something different?

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Is a jazz DVD something different?

Yes, that's more in the realms of a jazz mag... and a jazz cigarette is something else entirely!