She drives me crazy like no-one else

[venta]

Following on from the farago of the Boston beanslast week, I present...

I often buy bags of Tesco value stir-fry. Not the snazzy stuff with glamorous things like mushroom and pepper, but the big bags of shredded cabbage, carrots, beansprouts and onion. They're cheap, and they save me doing the shredding. Also, since most places only sell beansprouts in ludicrous-sized bags, it means I end up with a quantity I can reasonably eat before it goes off.

Occasionally, I actually stir-fry the stuff. More commonly I make giant batches of Bento Lady's vegetable pickle salad, and eat it with everything. Or I make it into some sort of slaw.

Anyway, I was questing for something similar to Tesco-value-stir-fry in our new Morrisons. They only have the superior kind, so I bought "Chinese stir fry".

But what's this?

Exactly. "Do not eat raw."

For the record, it contains cabbage, onion, carrot, peppers, beansprouts, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts.

Of those, I'm confident all but the last two can usually be eaten without "thorough cooking". T'internet suggests that water chestnuts are fine, and it's the bamboo shoots that are problematic.

Add this to the list of more-restrictive-than-expected foodstuffs.

Conversely, the yellow peril (by which I mean smoked haddock) I bought from Morrisons was labelled "Previously frozen. Good to freeze." Which is much more permissive than I'd have expected.

Edit
For those who care, I stand corrected. The stir fry mix came fun the Co-op. The fish reallydid come from Morrison's, though.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Professional freezing/defrosting is not considered a problem, so plenty of 'floppy' stuff that you can freeze was frozen before.

My love of the "its going off" cabinet means I buy lots of stuff that says it shouldn't be frozen, but seems to suffer few ill effects when I do.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't my Morrison's here in the Northern Tundra sell that pack of Chinese stir fry? It sells a good stir fry mix but a rather English one, apart from bamboo shoots and black mushrooms. But, should I wish, I seem to be able to eat it raw.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Presumably "English stir-fry mix" is something like onions, carrots, bacon, tea, biscuits and pastry :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, update from himself: your Morrison's doesn't sell it, because apparently we bought it in the Co-op.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Beansprouts often say not to eat raw. dunno why, presumably hard to disinfect or something?

[venta.livejournal.com]

They do? I need to start reading labels more. Expect a volley of "things you can't eat raw" posts :-)

Mind you, despite recent posts about Morrisons and the Co-Op, I normally buy my veg in a greengrocer's where most stuff is loose and unlabelled. Imagine what I might be eating raw!

(My meat also comes unlabelled from the butcher, but I tend to cook that by default...)

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Having been earwormed by the chorus, I discovered I don't actually know who it's by. Google has fixed this, but I don't feel justified in claiming more than half a kudo for the title, which is a lovely gimme for once.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It is from the albumThe Raw and the Cooked
There is usually a reason ;)

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

I was intrigued too and googled. Wikipedia says that some raw vegetables (including cabbage) are not good for the thyroid gland. I would helpfully provide a link but LiveJournal insists I'm posting spam if I do - instead see the Wikipedia page Cruciferous vegetables.