if you make a salad with tomatoes they must be vine ripened

[mshanj]

Just poped round a friends for brunch, yum I thought when she had made a salad.

I don't want to sound ungrateful but the tomatoes were just basically red cold tasteless mush. Aibu to think there is no point of a Greek salad without decent tomatoes?

This site is good for salad recipes. Oops, I mean a reality check www.trusselltrust.org/

Isn't this a sophisticated pallet?

Kalamata olives are mass produced brine plumped yuk.... (Unless you are buying them direct from the grove in Kalamata of course...)

now.. Moroccan salt cured.... mmm

Those wheels are a bit working class. Just saying like.

Those wheels look disgustingly generic. I'd turn my nose up and demand artisan-crafted, locally sourced and 100% organic wheels.

Lmao, um I agree that certain tomatoes aren't very tasty but I wouldn't begrudge a friend using them to make a meal. I always appreciate the effort and I think it's rude to them have a moan behind their backs.

YABU. Perhaps your friend, like me, buys cheaper tomatoes and generic olives in order to be able to afford all the staple foods she needs to get through the week on a tight food budget. And maybe you should be a bit more grateful she was generous enough to feed you.

Here, have my first ever

I like the tip for making tomatoes tastier (salt, pepper, vinegar). I might try that.

Like how you all assume she is broke. When in fact she was showing off her fancy new phone and talking about her dh will be getting his bonus soon.

She just doesn't value food as much as I do. I'd rather have 1 good meal a day than 5 tasteless ones.

You visited a friend for brunch, and before 12.06 you had judged, eaten and not enjoyed a meal she had prepared?
You must eat terribly early.....or are you perhaps either a) fibbing or b) overseas (Kalamata perhaps?).

YANBU
I've still got a few tomatoes to pick in my polytunnel : I'll pick them in the afternoon when they have been warmed by the sun
Same with the sweet peppers and paprika peppers
Aubergines are finished though.
Nearly time to dig up the Oca

Veg seasons have been long this year.

momb, I know this is 'highly unethical', but I'm sensing it may be a)

Sounds like she might value friendship more than you though if she's made the effort to make you a meal and you've come on here to slag her off?

FunkyBoldRibena agree- I have just put the last of my cherry tomatoes on the vine in a box with brown paper over them to let them keep ripening ( I am further north than you) blooming gorgeous they are, and hopefully like last year will keep in there for 4-6 weeks if I'm lucky

there is a world of difference between cheap pitted black olives and some good kamalarta olives, the purple ones.

Yes. Cheap pitted black olives are lovely and the purple ones are slimey and horrible and vile.

You beat me to it TwelveLeggedWalk Pray tell which overpriced furniture emporium you found those in?

I always wondered what the people who put 'pallets wanted' signs at the side of the road near industrial estates wanted them for.

I think it's a shame friends don't have one another over for food more often - everyone I know just wants to go out to Costas for very expensive coffee, or to M&S cafe (queue for hours pay fortune for toastie) or have a picnic in the park.
It would be so nice - and much more interesting - to share lunch sometimes, but no wonder people are too scared to offer hospitality at home with these sort of attitudes around

I LOVE this thread - it's hilarious! Especially the bit where the OP got the name of her favourite olives completely wrong

Some of the (unintentional) typos are quite funny too -

From TSSDNCOP: The Greeks do know how to mail a tomato though. They look a bit manky at the market but they are sublime made me chuckle

The pope comment on the first page actually made me spit my coffee all over myself

www.thanetearth.com/our-crops.html

Specially for you OP

I do like a nice tomato though, with olive oil and salt and pepper.
Prefer mozzarella to feta though - too salty

generic pitted olives

Do get over yourself.

What the Mary hell.

Wow.

Just....wow.

Out of interest OP, which variety of lettuce did your "friend" use
or is it OK for lettuce to be shipped half way across Europe from the spanish polytunnels that are killing turtles with their discarded plastic