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

in DMains? it probably got turned into flats .

I get turnips and swedes mixed up . Richard Curtis thought that parsnips were turnips hence all the turnip jokes in Blackadder.

neeps,
is that parsneeps or turneeps??

neeps are turnips here. Turnips as in Scottish turnips, but known as Swedes elsewhere.

I think it comes for the Gaelic word "sneep" IIRC

i like clapshot anyhoo dae ye aw hae yer haggis in?

swedes?
well i never,

What is pamplemousses? (you ll prob laugh at me now?

Beef tomatoes in uk are yuk.

I feel a bit less stupid now. I'm Geordie and gps were Scottish so I think I am entitled to call a swede a turnip. I didn't know other people called them swedes until I moved south.

i roast beef tomatoes,whole , only way i think.
no idea about pamplemouse

Yes, so there can be genuine confusion at the checkouts.

When I worked in Safeway, the checkout operators often put through what we call turnips as turnips on the list, when in fact they should have put in the code for swedes. The wee baby turnip things which should go through as turnips, were much more expensive, so I had to refund umpteen people when their neep was costing them £2 or so instead of a few pence!!

I don't blame the checkout staff for getting it wrong.

Who on earth would call a turnip a swede for goodness sake

a pamplemousse is a grapefruit

Baba Ghanoush on hot slightly crispy pitta bread is the best ever use for aubegines

lol is that true

I thought that the D mains one was a tesco now? (It was the last time I was there anyway)

Comely Bank and Morningside safeways are waitrose and camerontoll is sainsburys.

How boring am I on a saturday night.

I'm off to see if I have any exotic veg in my salad drawer to test myself on

Carrot,
Grapes
Gala apple
red pepper
onion

ha passed the test

That is the word that the dutch use for grapefruit expat. Do they call it that in the States too?

I thought DH was taking the piss when he told me that. It is such a funny word!

YABU. She might have thought it was a type of fruit.

pamplemousse is a fab word.

Was that a Safeway in Cameron Toll? I didn't know that.

You learn something new every day.

Now, here's another one. Are they:

spring onions?
scallions?
sybees?

no, it's a grapefruit in the US.

but it's a pamplemousse in France!

lol curlygal

Ta expat

Cameron Toll!
That rings a few bells!
Boyfriend and I would buy cheap rabbit carcasses from there and make pilchard sauce for pasta.

How do you make pilchard sauce from rabbit carcasses?

Didn't know you had an Edinburgh connection moondog

Two separate things. Vile
We saved money for beer and drugs.

I was a student in E'burgh. Lived in digs in Marchmont directly opposite The Meadows.

moondog,as a post,that has it all.wee quirky puns and deid rabbits with pasta.wet boak