to think aubergines are the work of the Devil [insert own choice of evil personage here]?

[Habbibu]

They ARE. They are so pretty on the outside, but them impossibly dreary on the inside, taste horrible, and upset my stomach. They're WRONG. Just wronng.

as is wronng!

yabu
I love moussaka!

They are lovely.

I like them...

Oh, come ON. You fraeks. They're an exercise in culinary disappointment.

They're LOVELY! You are wrong!!

Slice lengthways, salt them, crush some garlic over them, dribble (I hate the word drizzle) them with olive oil, stick em in the oven for a while. Yum yum yum yum yum.

shocking waste of salt, oil, and heat, duchesse...

Dh would agree with you, but I think YABU.

I love a stuffed aubergine, me.

ratatouille.

drool

There are few things more sublime that slices of aubergine battered and deep fried.

My granny calls them ow-ber-gines (gine rhymes with wine, and with a hard g).

I prefer a nice brinjal myself.
They're nice in a fish or chicken curry.

Alice anything is lovely battered and deep fried.... have you been to a harvester before?

yummy!

Roasted with tomatoes and butternut squash.

YABU.

They are my nemesis - I used to be a fairly good cook (pre-children) but I made some hideous aubergine dishes.

Lol at your granny, Alice - my mum always gets them confused with artichokes.

Well, exactly, DivineI. It's what you do to disguise horrible tastes.

Aubergines are indeed the work of the devil. They rate as the most horriblest vegetable along with pumpkin, which is truely the food of Satan!

Aw come on, I was only dribbling olive oil last time. It's very good for the complexion you know. Clinically proven to be vastly superior to L'Oreal many other vastly overpriced skincare products.

I can't let that vicious slur on pumpkin go by unnoticed either, I'm afraid: roasted pumpkin soup, a creamy autumn delight. Try it, you may change your mind.

Incidentally, I hate to be pedantic , but both aubergines and pumpkins are not taxonomically vegetables, but fruits!

Pumpkin? Don't you like any kind of squash/gourd? See, when you cut those - so pretty on the inside. Aubergines - the colour of newspaper pulp. Well, not quite, but you get my drift.

duchesse - you, I think, must have a very messy kitchen with all that oil and drool.

Yes, but we don't work taxonomically on a daily basis, do we? Biologically such distinctions may be useful, but they don't serve much purpose otherwise (save pub quizzes and the like).

No - see pumpkin looks lovely, gourds are very pretty as decorations but have you ever eaten one? It is swine food only and makes me retch. Can't even do the halloween thing with the DCs as I have such a strong aversion to it!

Aubergine is slimey and dull.

Mushrooms taste like worms and earth. Wrong.

Oh, no - love butternut squash, and make a divine pumpkin cake. Mushrooms are lovely lovely. This is about Aubergines, folks. Let's not get off-message, and slag off LOVELY THINGS...