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To have not known this and feel shooketh

198 replies

Pusheenicorn · 05/09/2018 19:19

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?!

OP posts:
mintich · 05/09/2018 20:24

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

Belindabauer · 05/09/2018 20:25

I thought it was seaweed too!

Genderwitched · 05/09/2018 20:25

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

Sorry Flowers

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/09/2018 20:26

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

Don't spoil it for us remember Grin

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.

flumposie · 05/09/2018 20:28

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

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/09/2018 20:29

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?

Twartyvajitus · 05/09/2018 20:32

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

Ohb0llocks · 05/09/2018 20:33

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

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 05/09/2018 20:33

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

Badtasteflump · 05/09/2018 20:33

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 Grin

Badtasteflump · 05/09/2018 20:34

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

KenDoddsDadsDog · 05/09/2018 20:35

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

Deadringer · 05/09/2018 20:35

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.

Original poster
Pusheenicorn · 05/09/2018 20:36

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

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

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ImTheOnlyUpsyOne · 05/09/2018 20:37

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

Original poster
Pusheenicorn · 05/09/2018 20:39

Did they actually dye peas?!

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argumentativefeminist · 05/09/2018 20:42

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

therewillbetime · 05/09/2018 20:44

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 Hmm

AdaColeman · 05/09/2018 20:52

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

toastedbeagle · 05/09/2018 20:57

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!"

Xnic · 05/09/2018 21:00

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

Oysterbabe · 05/09/2018 21:04

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

Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 05/09/2018 21:09

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!

SecretWitch · 05/09/2018 21:12

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

This entire thread is making me question the universe

KnotsInMay · 05/09/2018 21:12

No, they do not dye frozen peas.

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