AIBU to expect a supermarket checkout person to know what an aubergine is?

[thomsc]

That it is a VEGETABLE and that it starts with an A?

I mean... ok, perhaps you might not know what an aubergine is, but her next question (whilst holding it) was "is it a vegetable?"! No, it's a type of biscuit!

She then said she couldn't deal with it as it didn't have a barcode. When I suggested that she weighed it and told the till what it was, she looked under 'O' in the list of vegetables.

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

aye had a cookery book and she kept chirruping on out eggplant.i was bamboozled initially

I rather think you people are the ones who detect snobbiness. It is amusing, that's all.
God, thousands of people can't read or write properly. I've just spent the last 2 days slaving over MSc Lit. review on very topic.

Suspect it is actually a fruit anyhow. Strictly speaking.

they're not fresh here and they all taste vile.

the pamplemousses here suck as well. they are not fresh and they taste too bitter and sour.

Seriously, not a snob. I live in ever so multi-cultural Brixton where an aubergine is probably the least exotic of available vegetables.

I did not think of her as a 'gerl' not refer to her as one. She's over 16 and works in a shop that sells aubergines. It's hardly an unusual vegetable.

I'm not aghast at her on a snob level, but on a 'what are young(er) people learning about food?' level.

oh gosh moondog thanks for elaborating and sharing about MSc was that wee brag.any aubergine in it,perchance

now that is an oxymoron - beef tomato

they are not worth eating here, i can promise you.

yuk. all old and bitter-tasting and dried out.

it's an insult to aubergines.

There may be a palce for sight words with regards to veggies perhaps, yes.

Not a wee brag at all. Very dull to be incarcerated all Friday night and all Saturday.

Most of the tomatoes you buy in the supermarkets here are horrible.

I didn't realise this until I grew my own and found out what tomatoes are supposed to taste like!

oh, yes, hedge, i so agree about the beef tomatoes!

but it is an unsual vegetable surely?
poor girl for her,
i was charged for a turnip when i bought a parsnip. very annoyed.

now the neeps and parsnips here are delicious. yummy!

relaly yummy in stew, and roasted

Mawbroon, I worked in the Davidson's mains safeway when I was at School so was early 1990's. Still see some of the staff I worked with in Edinburgh Supermarkets though.

my mum wouldn't know an aubergine if it got up and stoated her.literally and metaphorically.

as an aside were i grew up aubergine might as well be moonrock.not easily recognised and most unusual

aubergines look lovely, all shiney, but i dont like the taste

mmmm. neeps. boiled and mashed together with mashed tatties, a knob of butter and salt and pepper.

Ah, Davidson's mains. What happened to that one?

The old morninside one got taken over by Waitrose. My sister lives near there, so I am sometimes in there and there are still some of the same staff working there too!