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The decadence of Organic Vegetables

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Regrettable Juvenilia

10:31 / 13.05.04

What else could the phrase "pomegranate up me blurter" possibly suggest?

Goodness Gracious Meme

10:33 / 13.05.04

thanks for sharing, 'nesh.

10:50 / 13.05.04

Soften you chest Flyboy. Relax your buttocks.

10:56 / 13.05.04

I mean if it were more efficient to plant lots of different types of food in one field, don't you think they'd all be doing it to save on pesticides?

It depends on how you are using the term "efficient". It's more efficient agriculturally, i.e. you get more out of the land and you don't need to poison the crops. But it's less efficient financially, because it's more labour intensive. My point is that it can definitely be done and it is not a "luxury"; it will simply mean less profit for supermarkets.

15:20 / 13.05.04

BiP>

Thanks, but I can't get that there linky to work. Or was it a gag ("organic beef in yr area - ha ha, there ain't none, you ponce!")?

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:38 / 13.05.04

would I joke about food?

(meat, perhaps)

sorry, here we go again.

15:48 / 13.05.04

You rock! Thanks. Hmmm, they deliver to the in-laws' area...

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:20 / 13.05.04

This mother's day, say it with *meat*.

Hang on. Are we back to the Flyboreskin?

11:55 / 14.05.04

Here at MeatShake Corporation, we have a simple vision:
Meat. Lots of meat.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:14 / 14.05.04

Am I the only one who finds the phrase "Organic beef deliveries in yr area" unutterably filthy?

00:36 / 15.05.04

Not as filthy as the oddly persistent image of Flyboy with a fringe of organic watercress, monk-like, surrounding his Jap's Eye.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:55 / 15.05.04

It *is* persistent, isn't it? Though I'm seeing it more as a lollo rosso kind of thing...

12:28 / 17.05.04

Urgh. Thanks a bunch for that.

I have done the dirty deed and started the process of registration for the box scheme whatsit. I read all the stuff on their website and it does seem that they do their best to avoid excessive food miles (I agree that it is a bit daft to buy organic produce when it has been flown from Argentina - Argentina! - which was the case with an organic pear I bought recently from Spitalfields.)

The Guardian's poncy chemical world food supplement on Saturday was quite interesting though, esp. re: 'nature identical' flavourings (I am sure I had read this somewhere before - possible in Fast Food Nation?). It's hard to disagree that compounds made artificially which are chemically identical to natural flavourings cannot be worse for one...

I also went round some shops today in an effort to find organic facewash etc. Good God. Neal's Yard Remedies make an organic facewash, certified by the Soil Association (79% of the natural ingredients organically produced), but it's £9.50 for 30 ml.

!!

(I am the most middle-class person in the history of the universe, ever. I even clean the bathroom with bicarb and lemon juice.)

12:32 / 17.05.04

There's a brand called Green People that's a wee bit cheaper, though not much. You can get it in lots of health food shops.

Maybe you should make your own! And then start selling it .. and eventually you can live off the profits from Kit-Cat Cosmetics.

Psi-L is working in hell

12:43 / 17.05.04

Not that it's a particularly cheap option but you could try looking for organic/natural products on this site

Though i like the idea of Kit Kat Cosmetics better.....can I request a men's range please?

Psi-L is working in hell

12:45 / 17.05.04

or Kit-Cat Cosmetics even....i think my chocolate cravings are getting the better of me....Green and Blacks though of course :-)

12:52 / 17.05.04

If you make your own soap, then the first rule of Kit-Kat Club automatically becomes that you don’t talk about Kit-Cat Club. Which could get in the way of your having fun on a message board.

12:55 / 17.05.04

I can’t believe I just attempted to pass a Fight Club joke off as a fun comment. Shoot me. Shoot me and then carry on being funny.

13:04 / 17.05.04

No. It's far more just to leave you alive and bearing the burden of what you did. Which is indeed a heavy one.

13:07 / 17.05.04

Dude. I just don't know what to say.

All is forgiven...

I wish Green and Black's would make a Kit-Kat knock-off, actually. Get down, cravings. Down!

Thank you for the recommendations. I was getting gloomy at the prospect of having to pay Vast Sums to Save the Wha... World. But I am rather attracted by the idea of making my own stuff... perhaps because it would involve keeping things in jars (that was by far the best thing about the Neal's Yard shop, the array of things in jars). I would have to be careful not to mix them up with the sweets in jars in my sweet shop.

Hmmm...

13:16 / 17.05.04

Oh, KCC, that reminds me, you *have* to come to visit us in Edinburgh because I found out last weekend that my favourite sweetie shop is still open. More sweeties in more jars than you could ever dream of.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:30 / 17.05.04

Things in jars rock. Especially stuff like heads and two-headed foetuses. And whale's nobs (although the size of jar may become an issue). And pasta sauce and pickled onions. (In separate jars, obviously... though... hmmm... not tried that yet. Maybe organic tomato, basil and pickled onion... Maybe not, eh.)

13:35 / 17.05.04

I'm now a bit scared of eating at your house, Stoatie, unless your lady wife cooked, I'm sure she'd never knock us up "Fettucine with Tomatos, Basil and Whale's Nob".

13:37 / 17.05.04

Ariadne, I will camp out on your doorstep asap. (You may regret telling me that...)

Or there's this one, in Morecambe Bay (look at that picture!) but I don't know anyone who lives in Morecambe Bay.

13:38 / 17.05.04

Oh, I don't know ... her vegan cookies were in quite alarming shapes.

13:43 / 17.05.04

Ooh, that looks good. But my sweetie shop wins by being 10-minutes walk away from Valvona and Crolla.

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:21 / 18.05.04

Illmatic, rest easy, and order freely from Growing Communities. I know these people- personally. And they are very, very, lovely, non decadent and really mean it. The lass who runs their farmer's market is a client and several of the other people who work/volunteer for them (GC) are personal friends of Richard and myself. Their box scheme is really worth all they ask.
And you're right to fear eating at Stoaties. At least take it outside. No offense S!

10:59 / 18.05.04

Anything that has anything to do with Valvona & Crolla would probably win almost anything (be still my beating heart, &c.).

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:30 / 18.05.04

This is going to make me go to the corner shop and buy lots of chocolate on the way home. Can we, for the love of my waistline, go back to talking about Flyboy's cock again?

Tryphena Absent

16:12 / 18.05.04

No we can't, but...

He could eat meat, but only if he caught it, possibly using a melee weapon, from the wilderness environment where meat product roams free.

Ha. Flyboy with a melee weapon. That's so laughable it's not even scary and I'm telling you, that's some hooouuge kind of funny.

08:29 / 07.06.04

Middle-class Guardian-reading yogurt-knitting Kit-Cat reports...

Organic box stuff really does taste vastly better than normal supermarket veg. This was especially noticeable with the fruit - tastiest oranges ever and for the first time I realised why Kiwi fruit used to be called 'Chinese gooseberries' - because they are supposed to taste akin to gooseberries... and to have quite a strong taste as well, I always thought they were naturally a bit watery. Texture of the new potatoes as well as the taste was noticeably different as well.

I think it's well worth it if you're a fat kid like me...

08:55 / 07.06.04

At my shop, we have organic maple syrup.
Feel free to orgasm now. ^^

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