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bumblebeebats:

bumblebeebats:

cockhunt:

can they like release new vegetables 

i work at whole foods and im here to tell u that they do

Some lady the other day puts this on my conveyor belt

and im like ……………………………………..ma’am what is this

and she has the audacity to say “i don’t know”

Globalisation can be a good thing sometimes.

It’s getting fast to move things around the world so foods that would otherwise be regional are going international. I went to Malaysia in 1997 saw a lot of fruit I’d never imagined- durians, mangosteens and rambutans. 

As they years went by, I saw them slowly trickling (or, with the durian, landing with a crash) into supermarkets at home- first in large asian supermarkets, then slowly into the tescos and sainsburys.

I don’t know the name of your fruit, but I see it a lot in Vietnam. It’s a sort of dry, sharp pear, with seeds inside. I use herbs in cooking I only know the local name for, we’ve never seen it in the west. There’s a sort of grass that tastes like aniseed, and a sort of succulent that can almost stand in for coriander if you squint a lot.

Basically, watch this space.