To have not known this and feel shooketh

[Pusheenicorn]

When you get seaweed from the chinese...

It isn't seaweed.

It's CABBAGE!!!

Must have had it over 100 times from the chinese and I never knew.

I can't have been the only one?!

I thought it was seaweed too 🙄 why do they say it is if it isn't? 🙈

I found this out a year or so ago. I was really upset because one of my grandparents hated cabbage and so do I. It was a bit of a joke between us, but I promised them that I would never eat the cabbage. They have since died. I then found out I had been enjoying Chinese ‘seaweed’ and every time I have it, I feel bad that I haven’t kept my promise. But it is so delicious I can’t not eat it! The internal struggle to resist is awful!

Because they don't care whose heart they break, Princess

They

Just

Don't

Care!

I didn't know that.

I've only had it once, and enjoyed it. But I love cabbage so that would be why.

It's a scandal I tell you!

I gleefully remember the time someone on twitter did one of those massively irritating 'Disgusted @tesco call it 'seaweed' when, if you look at the ingredients, it's actually just cabbage' tweets... and then refused to accept the assurance from about 400 people (including Tesco customer services) that yes... that's what we all know as crispy seaweed. 'NOT IN ANY CHINESE TAKEAWAYS I'VE EVER HAD @tesco I'LL BE SHOPPING @ASDA FROM NOW ON YOU LIARS' I think even Asda replied saying 'nope, still cabbage here too!'

Is it just sugar and salt they sprinkle though? It seems somehow more

I never knew that! I once innocently commented that you never saw a fresh prune though.

Apparently they are called 'plums'.

Never heard of it I love dulse though its amazing and is just dried seaweed. Is dulse a Northern Irish thing them?

Contessa

"Plums"

I knew that. To be fair, in China, I think they do use seaweed, but here it's cabbage.

I feel the urge to induce further shooketh-osity by revealing that when you have wasabi outside Japan it's usually white horseradish + green colouring or spinach and sometimes mustard too.

Wasabi is horesradish??? Now I’m shooketh!!

I'm 51. How have I gone through life eating fooking fried cabbage as a Saturday night treat?

Seaweed, there's a bake off challenge waiting to happen.

Apparently they are called 'plums'

You've made my day!

Sprinkled with crushed peanut in these parts - yummy

Wasabi is horesradish??? Now I’m shooketh!!

Me too!

I've never been so shookethed . . . I may need lie down . . .

I mean . . . . horseradish!

Also, there is no crab in crab sticks - surprised by how many people don't know that though.

Proper wasabi is wasabi. But it's very expensive.

Most wasabi we get over here is horseradish dyed green.

The difference is really obvious if you ever get the proper thing.

I thought seaweed was seaweed. I stopped buying it from Sainsbury's as they pack it in a non recyclable black tray.

What is "shooketh"????

I'm not even going to ask what Birds Nest Soup is......

"They sell "prawn balls" too at mine - and last time I looked prawns don't have any."

.

Prawn balls are deep fried prawns in batter in a ball shape...

I didn't know my mind has been blown

I stopped buying it when I realised - a fiver for a portion if seaweed seems fair enough, but for a blob of cabbage it's a piss take. And it's usually doused in msg which gives me squiffy guts.

I make my own now - when I can be bothered. Spread some chopped kale on a baking sheet, squidge around in some oil, salt and garlic powder then bake until crispy. Yummy and costs about £1 for a mountain of the stuff.