OT Eat your hearts out!!!

Thanks Gill but it's possible I'm one of the few people on this planet who really doesn't like strawberries. Because it's apparently so unusual, I usually just say I'm allergic to them and you know what, maybe a I am. But thanks for thinking of me.

Now if that was raspberries or blackberries I would be drooling.

Lucille

"Lucille" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Me too, strawberries and chocolate don't do a thing for me. In addition to raspberries and blackberries, my favourite berry is a loganberry, aaah.

Now white chocolate, raspberries and cheesecake, well that is Nirvana and I don't know quite whether I am grateful to Dora or not lol It was again a great success at Rubys party with two people saying how much they loved it but not wanting to have the recipe, didn't trust themselves lol

Don't feel too bad Gill - I stick out like a sore thumb when I say I despise lobster - and me being from the Maritimes up here in Canada. I can't stand the stuff - the smell, the look or the taste. La barf!

Sharon (N.B.)

Hey Gill, remember I lived in Tampa (half an hour from Plant City) for ten years. Every year in April, at the end of the crop when the farmers were practically giving the fruit away, I used to make a year's worth of freezer strawberry jam. DH is passionately fond of strawberries, so when we moved here to Louisiana I thought the abundance was over. Not so. Here, we are on the same latitude as Tallahassee after all, and we usually have the first crop fruit for Christmas.

BTW, dh is also diabetic, but he can eat as many strawberries as he likes. In fact, in my house dessert is spelled f-r-u-i-t. (And I get a little tired of strawberries, but he loves them so much I just eat them and keep my mouth shut.)

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I`m with you two (Sharon and Lucille) Don`t like any form of shellfish except prawns, and not at all keen on strawberries either! John`s quite the reverse. We`re just an exclusive club! I quite like strawberries dipped in dark chocolate, though.

Pat

But - but - but - doesn`t it make it difficult to eat them, keeping your mouth shut?

Pat

Darn you, Gillian!

Joan

Well, unlike several other posters, I'm *salivating* after reading your post!!

sue (there's no such thing as too many fresh strawberries)

AAAACCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!! Darn you, too, Sheena! Now my mouth is *really* drooling!

Joan

No, I was taught that way. Only open the mouth briefly in order to insert the food, then keep it shut to chew.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

These neither look, smell or taste like the "fresh" ones you see in the Supermarket!! DH isn't allowed a lot of them, but I do put them in sugar-free Jello ( jelly to UK); I also have a recipe for a pie whereby you mix the strawberries with strawberry yoghurt and strawberry Jello, and put it all in a piecrust until set. I just use low/no carb ingredients, and turn them into little cold puddings, not using the pieshell.

Gillian

The best ones rarely do...the supermarket berries often look beautiful, but the taste is so disappointing by comparison. However, the little local fresh ones don't look like much, but each is a bit of heaven in your mouth. True with most fruits, isn't it? Delicious apples are anything but...they're just bland.

Sue

We have a strawberry farm half a mile up the road - we often go and pick our own. John loves them - we never bother with supermarket ones.

Pat

It has to be DARK chocolate though - preferably Lindt or Thorntons!

Pat

Gill Murray ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Ruby made a nice strawberry pie once that even I who doesn't greatly care for them really liked. She put the strawbs in the pie, then liquidized some more strawbs, added a little flour to thicken and poured it over and baked. It was very good.

SPEW!!!!!

Joan

I agree!!! And mealy. IAP!!! I don't think they should even be categorized as apples. Now, Golden Delicious are another story....

Joan

It's also useful for keeping your foot out of your mouth - keeping it shut I mean

Best of all are Macouns. So good that I actually pay to import them from the East Coast because our local orchards don't grow them.

Well, you`d have to open it then alright - or choke to death! LOL!

Pat