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Edited Guide Writing Workshop: A33568842 - Vegetables
Alienfromearth,The Thingite Who Reads Stuff, Keeper Of The Daft Bananas Started conversation Mar 17, 2008
Entry: Vegetables - A33568842
Author: Alienfromearth - The Thingite Who Reads Stuff - U10938147
I'd like to put this in Peer Review but I think I need some more information in the 'Types of Vegetables' section. Also, I may have missed some vegetables off the list.
Thanks, 
Alienfromearth 
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Mar 17, 2008
On first skimming, it looks interesting. I'll try to get back to you later. 
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Alienfromearth,The Thingite Who Reads Stuff, Keeper Of The Daft Bananas Posted Mar 19, 2008
Alienfromearth
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bobstafford Posted Mar 19, 2008
This is going to be interesting and looks good even in the framework state.
It will also form a link to other entries well done so far.
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Elentari Posted Mar 19, 2008
This looks like a good start, but it does need fleshing out. I'm really not sure what to suggest to do that though. 
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bobstafford Posted Mar 19, 2008
A bit of history on each
Who first grew them the spread round the world that sort of thing.
How they are grown
Mythology and folk law could be added (garlic vampires that sort of thing) even where the pumpkin lantern mask for Halloween originated. Tomatoes were called Love apples in Elizabethan England and were thought to be poisonous by some.
The benefits of eating certain types of veg
and the dangers if any (arnt some beans toxic if un coked).
There is lots of work here... good luck
Bob...
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U168592 Posted Mar 19, 2008
At the moment it's just a bit of a list really. Why not add some of the regular uses for some of the vegies you've listed. Best recipes. Did you know a dried carrot used as a candle is called a kempit? Stuff like that.
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Elentari Posted Mar 19, 2008
I read today (it was an email circular thing so would need checking) that tomatoes were thought to be poisonous because they when they were eaten off pewter plates, they were particularly effective at mixing with the lead and causing lead poisoning.
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bobstafford Posted Mar 19, 2008
Hi Elentari
I did not know that thanks for the information I know that is why you should not drink cider from a pewter pot.
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Alienfromearth,The Thingite Who Reads Stuff, Keeper Of The Daft Bananas Posted Mar 19, 2008
Thanks for the ideas- I'll get working soon! Probably the reason it looks like a list is because it originally was a list, but then I decided that just a list would be a bit boring...
Alienfromearth
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Mar 7, 2009
Alien hasn't posted since May, 2008. D'you think anyone is gonna carry this forward It'd be a useful portal to the other 'Vegetable' Entries 
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AlexAshman Posted May 19, 2009
This needs a lot of work, including a rearrangement of the vegetables so that they are in order of type rather than alphabetical order. I think a move to the Flea Market would help.
Alex
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Edited Guide Writing Workshop: A33568842 - Vegetables
- 1: Alienfromearth,The Thingite Who Reads Stuff, Keeper Of The Daft Bananas (Mar 17, 2008)
- 2: aka Bel - A87832164 (Mar 17, 2008)
- 3: Alienfromearth,The Thingite Who Reads Stuff, Keeper Of The Daft Bananas (Mar 19, 2008)
- 4: bobstafford (Mar 19, 2008)
- 5: bobstafford (Mar 19, 2008)
- 6: Elentari (Mar 19, 2008)
- 7: bobstafford (Mar 19, 2008)
- 8: U168592 (Mar 19, 2008)
- 9: Elentari (Mar 19, 2008)
- 10: bobstafford (Mar 19, 2008)
- 11: Alienfromearth,The Thingite Who Reads Stuff, Keeper Of The Daft Bananas (Mar 19, 2008)
- 12: U168592 (Nov 26, 2008)
- 13: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Mar 7, 2009)
- 14: AlexAshman (May 19, 2009)
- 15: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Jun 9, 2009)
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