neighbour has just given me some artichokes but they don't look like artichokes, they look more like potatoes.....

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He said that we can plant them (so obviously grow what I would think of as artichokes) but also that we can eat the bulbs. Anyone tried this? what the heck do I do with them?

are they jerusalem artichokes?

they make you fart like a steam train

they are jerusalem artichokes

scrub well, roast with olive oil and lemon juice

I love them but they do give you wind

yup - jerusalem artichokes

aha, perhaps they are {ignorant emoticon}

They are foul.
Put them in the compost.

my guess is that you've got jeruselam artichokes (bit like a potato ) instead
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Jerusalem artichokes

For your nose if they are

yes, scour them, cook them, realise they taste of mud in any case and then bin them.

They must be jeruslam artichokes (although it is the wrong season for them). They are yummy in stews. Jamie Oliver has great recipes for them.

They are delicious but the farting is genuinely unbelievable. Don't eat them and then go to a very ritzy fortieth birthday party, which is what I did. Fortunately the music was very loud ...

jerusalem artichokes.

They make lovely soup, with the added attraction that if you do it today you will be jet propelled until Wednesday.

Hmmm..the wind thing is putting me off.

cook them like this with a roast. Gorgeous.

The English planter John Goodyer on Jerusalem artichokes:

"which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men."

WWB - he's not mincing his words is he?!
I will try them and report back (on the taste and the wind factor).