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?!

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I shall report bake.

Your culinary skills shall not go unappreciated.

DEATH TO THE CABBAGE! BANZAI!!!!!!!

I used to work in a chip shop and we used to put green dye in the mushy peas.

I’m genuinely surprised. I feel silly now.

Thank you feminist

I stand corrected

Did I get the definition right?

There are also hundred year old eggs.....

THEY ARE ONLY 57!

DOES NO-ONE LISTEN TO A THING I SAY?

Well I never knew this, and DH did! 18 years we've been together!

Birds nest soup is made from birds nests made of bird saliva.

Funny thread - have to say I have never seen seaweed in a menu....

When I met DH he was 20 and refused to believe me that there was dried blood in his beloved black puddings! He wouldn't believe there was cheese in cheesecake either.

Before the age of google so he went around asking everyone making himself look like an even bigger plonker

DH reckons he knew, I wish I had tested him first. I had no idea!!

I knew that but to my Immense shame only found out a few years ago that raisins are dried grapes!

You can join me on the 'Ignorant about fruit' bench, Hippopotas the irony is, I'm vegan - my people are meant to know these things!!

I did.
Pissed off ours no longer have nut powder on them i loved that contrast in taste.

Whats more surprising is why is it a surprise that there are dark green cabbages?

I thought it was kale not cabbage?

It's sea cabbage!

backyardlarder.co.uk/2013/10/wonderful-wild-sea-cabbage/

There is also sea kale.
They are delicacies.

SchadenfreudePersonified You did! It's basically shook/shaken but extra.

Turns out real seaweed isn’t as nice as deep fried sugar dusted cabbage.

Sums up the situation perfectly.

I was enlightened about the fake Chinese seaweed in 1994. I'm still puzzled about why, why, why do that? It kind of discredits an entire takeaway cuisine. The fakery and deception . The pointless betrayal!

Birds nest soup is made from birds nests made of bird saliva

Eurgh so its basically Avian Phlegm'n'Gob Broth

Yep, bird's-nest soup is genuine dried bird spit.

Ian embarrassingly shooketh

(Whispers) but when you have seaweed in a Japanese restaurant that IS seaweed, right?!?!

*i am

The birds nests used to be collected from caves near the sea.

It can legally be called seaweed as it falls under the heading of a " customary name" - normally you have to declare the defining ingredients in the product name/ description on Packard food e.g. chicken curry x% chicken, but some foods have traditional names that don't have the ingredient in them
e.g. cream crackers aren't made from cream, Glamorgan sausages aren't meat, Welsh Rabbit isn't made from rabbit, spotted dick doesn't contain dicks, but they have been known by those names for so long it is presumed that the customer is aware of the nature of the food and therefore there is no deception.
You couldn't develop a new product and call it something like beef roulade, if there was no beef, that would be misleading.

Japanese seaweed is seaweed, yes.

Shooketh - nice one. Like the "I'm fewwwwwmin!!!" that we had on the Jaws thread.

And if you ever see phoenix claws on a Chinese menu, they are chicken's feet, not from actual phoenixes ( phoeni?)