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narlus

Eastcoast Softcore
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Nov 7, 2001
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thumbs down on beets? are you mad?

the roasted sweet taste of beets....yay!

golden beets and goat cheese over fresh greens. beat that. i dare ye.
 

laura

DH_Laura
Jul 16, 2002
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Glitter Gulch
oooooooooooo i love beets. we eat at this ethiopian restraunt down the street. the vegetarian combination comes with beets, and thats what sparked my love for them. now i can't get enough.
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
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you all should read "jitterbug perfume" by tom robbins :thumb: . beets play a central role.
 

Heidi

Der hund ist laut und braun
Aug 22, 2001
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I love beets - remember picking them out of the garden when I was little. YUMMY!

Beets are VERY popular if you go out to eat in New Zealand, I love that country :)
 

clancy98

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Dec 6, 2004
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Toshi said:
you all should read "jitterbug perfume" by tom robbins :thumb: . beets play a central role.

man I read that book on a rec from some chick that said his writing was similar to Hunter S. T. But man, that book was hard to follow. Are his other books that "scatterbrained"? (not meant negatively)
 

H8R

Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
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I Are Baboon said:

Somehow I fell victim to Jedi-Wife mind tricks. We planted beets in our garden and they are growing nicely...

WTF???
 

steve45

Monkey
Sep 30, 2003
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are beets, the same thing as we over here call beetroot?
if so then pickled beetroot is great, tastes realy nice, goes well with suprisingly a lot of stuff especially salads.
 
clancy98 said:
man I read that book on a rec from some chick that said his writing was similar to Hunter S. T. But man, that book was hard to follow. Are his other books that "scatterbrained"? (not meant negatively)
However you meant it, "scatterbrained" is not a term that comes to mind when I think about Robbins' books.

I hated beets growing up, but after reading the book, I gave them a try again. Unfortunately, they still tasted terrible to me.
 

clancy98

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Dec 6, 2004
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gastro said:
However you meant it, "scatterbrained" is not a term that comes to mind when I think about Robbins' books.

I hated beets growing up, but after reading the book, I gave them a try again. Unfortunately, they still tasted terrible to me.
I think he jumps around a lot. At least in jitterbug, there were 4 or 5 seemingly unrelated stories, and he kept hopping back and forth. I guess I didnt get the theme. There were satyrs, perfumers, people of all different times/races. Maybe I will have to reread.
 

Squeak

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Sep 26, 2001
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Heidi said:
I love beets - remember picking them out of the garden when I was little. YUMMY!

Beets are VERY popular if you go out to eat in New Zealand, I love that country :)
Beets are nasty! You ate mine in NZ if I remember corectly
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
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gastro said:
However you meant it, "scatterbrained" is not a term that comes to mind when I think about Robbins' books.

I hated beets growing up, but after reading the book, I gave them a try again. Unfortunately, they still tasted terrible to me.
i can see how robbins' books might be called scatterbrained. yes, his other works have similar multiple-plot-line and general wackiness aspects to them, but they're all entertaining. if you didn't like one you probably won't like the others, on the other hand.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Every year around Christmas time I get invited to a friends house for traditional Polish food, the first course is some horrible soup made from beets. I have to be drunk to eat the stuff.
 

Qman

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Feb 7, 2005
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red beets=bad
golden beets=good

Roasted and sliced, tossed into a salad or just sliced with cheese and a roasted red pepper dipping sauce and a glass/bottle of Pinot Gris.
Golden beet ravioli is pretty good too.
 

I Are Baboon

The Full Dopey
Aug 6, 2001
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So it looks like beet haters outweight beet lovers here. :thumb:

I couldn't count Qman because he can't decide whether or not he likes them, or Toshi, who instead of telling us if he likes beets, made a reference to some obscure book none of us has ever heard of.

Damn, I should have made this a poll.