Rocket

[icarus]

What is with this leafy green called 'rocket'? What kind of name is that? According to wikipedia it is also what we called arugula, but I guess with a more yuppie name.

And by what right can restaurants put a couple sprigs of it into a salad, on a pizza, or elsewhere and get off charging a small fortune? I am tired of this pretentious bullshinguard rocket and its unsatisfying yet money-grubbing ways. What ever happened to the edible greens that existed before the year 2000, such as lettuce?

I say down with rocket. It doesn't satisfy the hunger, it tastes the same as any other salad fodder, but makes any dish containing it cost twice as much. Die rocket die!

[Flash Walken]

I like arugula. I won't pretend to call it rocket, that's the british/euro word for it, I know it as arugula.

It has a nice flavour, if you go to costco, you can get it in these big 'Organic Farms' plastic containers.

Pick up a nice loaf of bread and cut two slices, layer the arugula on one side of each, then add slices of tomato, salt, pepper, then cover the slices with an aged white cheddar. Stick in the toaster oven until the cheese melts. Remove, eat, thank me later.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Arugula rules!

Love those packs of mixed organic greens that you see these days. Oak leaf is another one.

Iceberg lettuce? Phooey!!!1

[Hack&Lube]

Our pasta this evening is a squid ravioli in a lemon grass broth, with goat cheese profiteroles, and I also have an arugula Caesar salad.
For entrees this evening, I have swordfish meatloaf with onion marmalade,rare roasted partridge breast in raspberry coulis with a sorrel timbale and grilled free-range rabbit with herbed french fries.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Our pasta this evening is a squid ravioli in a lemon grass broth, with goat cheese profiteroles, and I also have an arugula Caesar salad.
For entrees this evening, I have swordfish meatloaf with onion marmalade,rare roasted partridge breast in raspberry coulis with a sorrel timbale and grilled free-range rabbit with herbed french fries.

A big ole bottle o' Heinz squirted generously on the whole shebang and that's a damn fine meal!!

[Claeren]

Does iceberg lettuce even have any nutritional value?

It is water in a plant tissue bag.... ?


Claeren.

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by Claeren

Does iceberg lettuce even have any nutritional value?

It is water in a plant tissue bag.... ?


Claeren.

I think some types of lettuce fall under the category of it costing more energy to digest and process than the amount of energy you get out of it. If I remember correctly it's called negative calories or something.

[White Doors]

Originally Posted by Kybosh

I think some types of lettuce fall under the category of it costing more energy to digest and process than the amount of energy you get out of it. If I remember correctly it's called negative calories or something.

Yes and it also cleans out yer ****ter

[FurnaceFace]

It's the name they use in at least Britian and Australia for it.

[Canada 02]

Isn't it spelled roquette? That's also the name used in parts of Asia. Bloody confusing over there. Peppers are called capiscum and snowpeas are called mangetout