Sunday, 5 May 2013

Don't eat the daffodils

).Well, we bought a nice cheap bunch of daffodils from the supermarket, and then I saw the following warning on the label:

DO NOT EAT

This would have been fine, had we not intended them for our evening meal, sauteed in butter, and served with my special Hollondaise sauce (recipe - from an old post - here).

Why do they have to spoil everything?
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  1. Wendy's Writing5 May 2013 at 17:32

    I am now looking at my own daffodils and my stomach is rumbling - never mind there are some nice tulips in my front garden.

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    1. Frances Garrood6 May 2013 at 19:11

      A tulip would be lovely. You could stuff it with...well, you could stuff it...?

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  2. Fran Hill5 May 2013 at 21:11

    That's like the story I heard about the ladder that had, written on the top rung, STOP HERE.

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    1. Frances Garrood6 May 2013 at 19:12

      ...or the sign which says DO NOT REMOVE THIS SIGN?

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  3. Librarian6 May 2013 at 06:25

    Strange but true - when I try to click the link to your Hollandaise recipe, it tells me I do not have access to this page with the account I am online with at the moment... But it is my only blogger account, so I'll have to go without your recipe.
    We've had green asparagus, spuds and Hollandaise for dinner last night. It was delicious, but nowhere on the labels did I read "Do eat!". I hope we did that right!

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    1. Frances Garrood6 May 2013 at 19:13

      The recipe was a disaster, so you haven't missed anything, Meike!

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  4. Rosemary Gemmell6 May 2013 at 10:27

    It shows how dumb they think everyone has become.

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    1. Frances Garrood6 May 2013 at 19:14

      Yes, but THAT dumb? Having said that, my best friend once made a stew using a daffodil bulb (she thought it was an onion), so...

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  5. Maggie May6 May 2013 at 14:27

    I blame those trendy chefs who put flowers with everything, and I hear we'll all be eating insects very soon - hundreds of varieties to choose from.

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    1. Frances Garrood6 May 2013 at 19:15

      When I was in Africa (working) we had to encourage people to eat insects. For the protein, you know. What hypocrites we were!

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  6. Graham Edwards10 May 2013 at 08:28

    I was once acquainted (professionally) with a very eminent and brilliant expert witness of Welsh descent. He had no time for people with 'side' and I recall once being at a St David's Day dinner with The Great and The Good. He decided that TGATG were getting far too up themselves so he brought that particular conversation to a halt by taking a daffodil from a vase in the centre of the table putting salt on it and proceeding to eat it. When he obviously had everyone's attention he simply said "Isn't that what they are on the table for?"

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