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 worked at a Chinese in my teens and I only know it's cabbage from working there, I wouldn't know otherwise!

I thought it was seaweed too!

Oh yes, it certainly is cabbage, I knew that OP.

Sorry

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

Don't spoil it for us remember

Yerroble "shooketh" is a MumsNet neologism. It means shaken and shocked beyond anything that mortal flesh can bear.

Much worse than shaken.

Much worse than shocked.

SHOOKETH.

Wow. I never knew. won't be telling my 8 year old though as she loves 'seaweed' and hates cabbage.

Flump

Is is a searing hot bake you do, or a low temperature looooong bake?

I feel the need to make my own seaweed, and there is a savoy cabbage sitting in the fridge, smugly mocking me, thinking it is safe because tis is not cabbage weather . . .

If the bake works for kale, surely it will work for Savoy?

I was shocked, horrified and disgusted and incredibly melodramatic to find out 'prawn' toast is mainly PORK!

I've never had it but I'd have thought it would be seaweed!!!!

I knew. I've eaten seaweed in several forms and it was all disgusting, but takeaway "seaweed" is definitely cabbage and tastes lovely.

Personified I cook it quickly in a hot oven (200 degrees ish) for about ten to fifteen mins. You need to take it out and move it around a couple of times so the crispyness is even.

Cabbage works fine too - I just like Kale more.

Loving that I'm being asked cooking advice - that doesn't happen often. Don't let that put you off though

Ooh and make sure it's coated with a good glug of oil too...

I knew it wasn’t seafood but didn’t know it was cabbage . Didn’t really think about it , just stuffed it down.

Well I never! I assumed that the seaweed I ordered was, well, seaweed. I didn't like it which is not surprising as I hate cabbage.

It was delicious... even if it isn't actual seaweed.

I still can't believe it though. Cabbage is gross.

Omg!! I 100% didn't know that!!!

Did they actually dye peas?!

Shooketh is not a mumsnet thing 😳 Shooketh originates from YouTube comedian Christine Sydelko.

I once told my mum that I wanted a side parting and my fringe to flick across. My mum trimmed in my fringe and said that if I kept flicking it across I could 'train' it to stay there

The Chinese love a food joke, and cabbage "seaweed" is a famous one. There are also hundred year old eggs.....

I didn't know til I made my own crispy kale and then was like "what the fuck?! This is the same as Chinese seaweed!"

I used to work in a chippy, and we put dye in the peas

I knew it was cabbage. It's often served with powdered scallops round here for that seaweed taste.

I didn't know this either OP - as far as I'm concerned if something is called seaweed I'm assuming it is indeed seaweed!

Prawn toast is PORK?? Is Peking Duck, just tarted up chicken then?

This entire thread is making me question the universe

No, they do not dye frozen peas.

They out stuff in mushy peas to stop them looking greyish, though.