Julie Bindel

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Has she really blocked JKR or was that a joke on Twitter?

Just beetroot! Look 👇

Damn you'll have to click on the image to see the search bar!

I don't mind beetroot but it does make your poo red. See also red wine.

I rest my case:

Ffs JRK doesn’t like beetroot? I’m offended

Oh dear, JKR. Until now you hadn't put a foot wrong 😢

@JanesLittleGirl

That beetroot looks muddy but doesn't look like rats 

I ate so much pickled beetroot when pregnant with DC1 that I regularly handed pink urine samples to the midwife.

So I guess I’m Team Julie on this one.

Julie Bindel dislikes CRISPS? All types of crisps? Bloody hell, I've always admired her but this is very difficult for me

She dislikes people eating bags of crisps near her trains. Is it sad that I know that?

I love crisps and beetroot (enjoyed a very tasty beetroot and feta salad for lunch today) so who am I riding into battle on this issue?

Well if it is, we can be sad together.

I'm either JKR with this one. Hate beetroot, always have, always will. Yuk.

I'm also with JB on the eating crisps on trains thing. Yuk.

At the risk of introducing a major ideological schism, golden beetroot avoids the stain/colour change issue. Just saying.

Ooh! I would be willing to try that!

I’m completely Team Bindel regarding crisps on trains. If I can hear you eat or smell what you’re eating then it is likely that I have cheerfully imagined pushing you out of the train while it’s moving.

On the beetroot front, I’m ambivalent about plain stuff. Pickled beetroot, however, is the absolute bollocks and I will brook no argument on this <gavel>

Beetroot crisps are divine! Not had them for years

To people who are sensitive to geosmin, beetroot tastes like dirt.

Beets taste like dirt because they contain a compound called geosmin (meaning “dirt smell”). Geosmin is produced in abundance by several organisms that live in the soil, including fungi and some bacterial species in the genus Streptomyces. Humans are extremely sensitive to low concentrations of geosmin – so much so that we can smell it floating in the air after rain has stirred it up from the soil (Maher & Goldman, 2017). While people generally like that rain-fresh scent in the air, it’s less welcome elsewhere. For example, we perceive it as an off taste in water drawn from reservoirs with a lot of geosmin-producing cyanobacteria.

https://botanistinthekitchen.blog/2019/02/11/the-beet-goes-on/

I've had beetroot chocolate cake. It must have been okay.

Oh thank you @NonLinguisticRhetoricIsMyKryptonite My family all love beetroot but it tastes of the smell of dirt to me. I do however like pickled beetroot.

I do side with JB about eating crisps on a train. In fact any noisy or smelly food should be banned on public transport.

I am pro beetroot, but only without vinegar. I am growing some multi-coloured varieties in my tiny garden.

I am also pro-crisp.

Seethe and cope, or whatever it is that the young people say.

I can't be doing with anyone who has issues with beetroot. Good thing I don't like Harry Potter, I guess.

The dirt smell is part of why I like them. See also: parsnips.

I have managed to eat beetroot chocolate cake before too. It worked, because the recipe had been finely judged to produce the perfect ratio of chocolate to beetroot. That is to say, sufficient chocolate that you couldn't tell there was any beetroot in there with it.

I have a child who uses ketchup to achieve the same result with a range of other vegetables.

So interesting...and the reason why JKR is right on beetroot. I prefer to eat foods which do not taste of soil.
Beetroot crisps do not taste of soil though and crisps are great
#teamjkr

I’m too excited to read to the end of the thread to see if Mole came back to post more. Is this the real Moley? If so, I love your work. ⭐️