It’s a matter of sound, I think. “Eggplant” sounds very ordinary – “aubergine” always sounds like that glorious purple.
It could be worse. In India, where the plant comes from, it is known as brinjal. PS, I love brinjal bhaji.
Aubergine in Europe, eggplant in USA.
I get myself in dreadful trouble with this as I insist on calling it aubergine just to piss off the locals for a giggle!
Not that those in the NW eat eggplant anyway! They regard it with the greatest suspicion as a nasty foreign hispanic immigrant food, sod India I don’t think they know where that is.
I grew it in the community garden last year and actually got them to produce ripe fruit, no mean feat round here with the climate, or lack of!. It was obvious that others thought I was in league with the devil being able to do so!
(The secret being to use a black ground cloth to keep the soil temperature up, but I didn’t tell them that)
Said I danced round them in the middle of the night with incantations or some such rubbish just to wind them up.
A Canadian in our local town bought a gingerbread house and proceeded to paint it aubergine and white with a copper coloured roof. It looks most elegant, but not to the locals, they have been complaining ever since that it constitutes an offence to all God fearing folk and the like, an unholy excrescence and bringing the town into disrepute. The combination of Canadian and aubergine being FAR too much for any of them, bloody funny actually, one of my forms of entertainment to ask them how about the house these days. Light blue touch paper and retire quickly!
I just love aubergine, it brings a smile to my face to even think about the colour and fruit, it has provided me with a great deal of entertainment here over the years. I have at least 60 or so of many varieties growing on in pots in the greenhouse as I type.
Must go and talk to them.
Aubergine and white house – sounds glorious, CO. Do an Imam Bayildi for the next parish supper.
Aubergine and white house – sounds glorious, CO. Do an Imam Bayildi for the next parish supper.
Oh yes, that is yummy.
The do wonderful things with auber-plants in Turkey. And I am not talking Midnight Express either!
Are there really that many colours? Well I never! Grape, orchid, lavender, WTF? Sounds a bit gay to me. It’s paint, woman, PAINT and the man chooses it, buys it and applies it! End of.
OZ
Had to look up the turkish thingymajig. Already do something like it with nuts instead of tomatoes, served on a tomato coulis. Used to do it in the restaurants for a veggie option, very good with a steak on the side!
CO, ‘steak on the side’ amused me. Reminded me of power breakfasts enjoyed by some Yanks.
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I prefer “aubergine” to “eggplant”.
Sheona, it’s not a matter of taste, is it? 🙂
It’s a matter of sound, I think. “Eggplant” sounds very ordinary – “aubergine” always sounds like that glorious purple.
It could be worse. In India, where the plant comes from, it is known as brinjal. PS, I love brinjal bhaji.
Aubergine in Europe, eggplant in USA.
I get myself in dreadful trouble with this as I insist on calling it aubergine just to piss off the locals for a giggle!
Not that those in the NW eat eggplant anyway! They regard it with the greatest suspicion as a nasty foreign hispanic immigrant food, sod India I don’t think they know where that is.
I grew it in the community garden last year and actually got them to produce ripe fruit, no mean feat round here with the climate, or lack of!. It was obvious that others thought I was in league with the devil being able to do so!
(The secret being to use a black ground cloth to keep the soil temperature up, but I didn’t tell them that)
Said I danced round them in the middle of the night with incantations or some such rubbish just to wind them up.
A Canadian in our local town bought a gingerbread house and proceeded to paint it aubergine and white with a copper coloured roof. It looks most elegant, but not to the locals, they have been complaining ever since that it constitutes an offence to all God fearing folk and the like, an unholy excrescence and bringing the town into disrepute. The combination of Canadian and aubergine being FAR too much for any of them, bloody funny actually, one of my forms of entertainment to ask them how about the house these days. Light blue touch paper and retire quickly!
I just love aubergine, it brings a smile to my face to even think about the colour and fruit, it has provided me with a great deal of entertainment here over the years. I have at least 60 or so of many varieties growing on in pots in the greenhouse as I type.
Must go and talk to them.
Aubergine and white house – sounds glorious, CO. Do an Imam Bayildi for the next parish supper.
Oh yes, that is yummy.
The do wonderful things with auber-plants in Turkey. And I am not talking Midnight Express either!
Are there really that many colours? Well I never! Grape, orchid, lavender, WTF? Sounds a bit gay to me. It’s paint, woman, PAINT and the man chooses it, buys it and applies it! End of.
OZ
Had to look up the turkish thingymajig. Already do something like it with nuts instead of tomatoes, served on a tomato coulis. Used to do it in the restaurants for a veggie option, very good with a steak on the side!
CO, ‘steak on the side’ amused me. Reminded me of power breakfasts enjoyed by some Yanks.