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Radishes

HugoZHackenbush
HugoZHackenbush Posts: 775
edited June 2012 in Not Sports Related
Round or long?

I personally find the round ones lack that peppery bite you used to get in the old long varieties. I suspect round radishes were invented by the same Brussels bureaucrats who we were responsible for the straight cucumber

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,079
    I don't remember ever seeing long ones, so I'll go round.
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    thats a tuff one, i need more time to think before im willing to share what side of the fence im sitting on when it comes to radish shape and taste if you dont mind hugo!?
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,652
    It's a very personal thing and a bold thread to start but I'm not sure CL is ready for it yet. Size isn't everything.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,400
    Good post Hugo.

    One of the problems with supermarket shopping is the lack of choice in regards to varieties of vegetables. When you work in a kitchen and you have a good supplier, you have a multitude of choices - Especially now that heirloom vegetables are gaining in popularity. It makes supermarkets a bit dull but that's why it's so worth exploring the world of Farmer's Markets. Used to love the one at Blackheath when I got a rare Sunday off.

    In my experience the Rosa variety of radishes pack the most peppery punch. I am sure you would be able to source some if you put the time into it. And it too is a longer type of radish, I would make you correct in the assumption that the round ones never seem to have the same amount of flavour in that respect.

    Great thread. Food for thought for us all.
  • delroofer
    delroofer Posts: 857
    .............tumbleweed blows across the screen of my laptop.............................................

    Roll on some transfer news!
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    Long ones definitely most peppery.

    Can't resist them dipped in salt.
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,317
    Food of the devil.

    Up there with celery in terms of killing a salad
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,120
    Long ones definitely most peppery.

    Can't resist them dipped in salt.
    Alright! Lick 'em,salt 'em,eat 'em.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,373
    The ones my uncle used to grow, all shapes and sizes.
    painful to eat, make nose and eyes run
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Never bothered growing them on my allotment as i probably would not use them all and they would probably go to waste.

    Not that keen myself.

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  • Bagpuss
    Bagpuss Posts: 334
    We are growing "Sparkler" - they are round and the pepperiness is entirely acceptable.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    The straight Brussels cucumber is a figment of some daily mail ex-public school feverish imagination
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Love them eityer shape TBH
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    Ah radishes, what a cracker of a topic!. Can't stand them and they give me chronic indigestion.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    Proper Charlton Life thread, this one.
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,226
    they're alright grated but a bit too intense whole. On the cucumber point, the old fashioned prickly ones seem to taste a lot better than the new fangled supermarket ones
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,841
    love radishes. round ones for me.

    there’s a salad called a Mexican street salad that has them in it. with cabbage, jalapenos, red onion few other bits. cracking salad.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,496
    Agh yes....the old Mari Lloyd music-hall song....."She sits amongst the radishes and peas"!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,773
    Never seen a long raddish
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    edited June 2012
    Bit like an alsation's willy, but rounder at the end.

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  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,226
    edited June 2012
    Bit like an alsation's willy, but rounder at the end.
    keep that to yourself or this'll get closed if it goes down that route

  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    My favourite was Radishstan Kishishev, he was all right ;-)
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,335
    Easy to grow - try them dipped in a little melted butter. Loverly
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,997
    Would have thought noŵ the fixtures are out this thread would have closed
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    Just keeps repeating !!

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