Mariemarion

I like the way you think. And bilingual puns.

Guidebouc??

I don’t get it. Help please?

“Vegetables” are not A Thing. The word just means a part of a plant we eat as a savoury dish. Some are seeds (like peas), or pods with the seeds still inside (green beans), or leaves (spinach, chard), roots or kinda-roots (carrots, garlic, beets), or (baby) flowers (cauliFLOWER, broccoli, Brussels sprouts - all from the same recent cabbage ancestor), lots are fruit (pumpkin, zucchini, cucumber, peppers, tomatoes). I found it fascinating when I planted my first garden 5 years ago, knowing squat about nature. Veggies are just plants where your pick the good part.

Damn. I loved his early works as a teen. His books taught me English (along with Anne Rice’s. Kids have weirdly eclectic tastes.)

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French woman here. I used to live in Damascus and I know Lebanon a bit. It was a wonderful place with great people (and dumbasses, obviously, but the great people were really great). Just wanted to say: I get it. I see you.

I had no idea. Thanks for explaining!

Not a staple where I’m from, but aren’t there japalenos in there? Bell peppers ?

Where I’m from, the hyperbole would go “You’ll get punched.”