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Posted by fairy hedgehog (U1485678) on Tuesday, 25th October 2005
It's been three weeks now & my plums are still rock hard. Do you think the supermarket was lying to me?
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Is this a continuation of the thread featuring Alex's gherkin and your baps? MT
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Posted by fairy hedgehog (U1485678) on Tuesday, 25th October 2005
Is this a continuation of the thread featuring Alex's gherkin and your baps? MTÂ
I'd forgotten about Alex's gherkin.
I think it was bob larkin, on the old board, who brought 'ripen in bowl' to general attention in his role as supermarket monitor. I saw the sign in my local shop & bought the plums & I have been checking them every day. Sould I resort to cooking them I wonder?
fh
< I'd forgotten about Alex's gherkin.>
So soon? He'll be crushed. MT
Try putting them in a paper bag with an apple. Apples give out ethylene gas, which boosts the ripening process.
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:20:21 GMT, In reply to: fairy hedgehog [
All "ripen in bowl" food goes from rock hard to brown and rotten over night, especially pears. I usually resort to just eating them un-ripe.
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Posted by The Famous But Disillusioned with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Eccles (U219998) on Tuesday, 25th October 2005
I at war with my son about bananas.
He likes to leave them til they are soft. By which time I've scoffed 'em!
Bananas are renowned for giving off "stress ethylene", which will be picked up by other fruit around as a signal to ripen and rot. Certainly should't keep apples and bananas in close proximititty.
Roy
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Posted by the quick brown fox (U2221867) on Tuesday, 25th October 2005
It's been three weeks now & my plums are still rock hard. Do you think the supermarket was lying to me?
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They've got a cheek, haven't they? It's either that or "perfectly ripe", when they know perfectly well that they are no such thing.
We brought back peaches from France once and they NEVER ripened -- just went bad. We thought it was because they were not class 1.
Stew them with some brown sugar. Make a crumble. That's what I'd do.
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Posted by fairy hedgehog (U1485678) on Tuesday, 25th October 2005
Stew them with some brown sugar. Make a crumble. That's what I'd do.Â
Excellent idea, foxy. I admit to being confused by the mixed messages at the fruit section. There was one notice telling me how the supermarket pick everything when it is perfectly ripe & another saying ripen in bowl.
What a swiz.
fh
It's been three weeks now & my plums are still rock hard. Do you think the supermarket was lying to me?
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You are Billy Muggins and I claim my £5
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