Interesting story in the news today

We regularly ea all but the first 3.
I especially like couscous - in summer (wish it was here) I make a salad with it, with various additions of other "obscure" foods.

I've tried most of these foods. I have porridge, blueberries with linseed most mornings. I love, aubergine, asparagus. I follow mainly a plant-based diet (I've never liked meat) and rarely have 'traditional' food. I often make kale 'crisps' and have loads of spinach in my fridge. I'd eat avocados every day if they weren't so fattening. Every Christmas we decide what theme this year. It's only since my children are adults and married that they ask for more traditional food!

Elegran I was just about to make the same point as you (tried, have not tried) when I scrolled up and saw your analysis.

There is one thing this list does show is that the millenials who wrote up this survey for the Daily Mirror, really do not understand statistics. Otherwise they would have stuck to 25 foods over 60s haven't eaten (roughly where the 50/50 divide is). Going beyond that just illustrates their statistical incomprehension.

By the way, we are given the name of the company that did the survey, but we aren't told why they did the survey. If we knew who had commissioned it and why, or how they selected those in the sample, we would have a much better 'feel' for this survey.

Sample size is immaterial, it is the sampling frame that matters.

Lies, damned lies and statistics?

Maybe it’s because the over 60s have more sense and are not interested in faddy foods!.


Dr Carrie Ruxton

I have never eaten avocado, lasagne or KFC!

Load of hogwash, we eat most of these foods on a regular basis.
I bet we see another newspaper article being written about how oldies are not stick in the muds and can actually be adventurous.

Eaten everything on the list but the first four and never seen them, if I had, I would have tried them for sure

What an absolute load of bunkum. Salmon, beetroot, spinach, walnuts, almonds, lentils, porridge for God's sake - all these are 'unusual'??? There are only two things there that I've never tried - one because I've never heard of it (matcha) and the other because it's just empty carbs (cronut). As for the rest, I haven't 'tried' them, I've been eating many of them all my life, apart from a couple that I just don't like, e.g. quinoa and houmous. And judging from this thread, it sounds as if most of us are the same.
Just another loony survey carried out by 20-somethings who think we're all sitting in a rocking chair, knitting, with a cat on our lap and our silver hair in a bun.
Must go, got to put the meat and two veg on for dinner

I have blueberries every day...love them

I've tried a Wheatgrass smoothie (in Australia).
Love blueberries and we have tried to grow them without success, we love olives too.
Couscous and quinoa I eat occasionally as DH doesn't like them much; chia seeds in smoothies made by DD!
Vegetable crisps, including parsnip - yum, I have to stop myself from eating a whole packet.
Had 'smashed' avocado on toast for lunch today.

I have just bought a packet of Melissa tea - has anyone tried it? We haven't opened it yet.

Just off to do my knitting

Another load of inter-generational B****cks

Even in my wee Scottish backwater in the 60’s we knew about avocado and prawn mayonnaise as a starter!
Yes, the staple starter

Did any of us in our 20’s and 30’s eat the same stuff as our parents?
No - I first sampled spaghetti bolognaise in a student flat aged 18. Foreign muck!
Or did we do adventurous things like buying Elizabeth David’s books and terracotta chicken bricks from Habitat?

I still have my terracotta chicken brick.

Jalima and what about zabaglione? My favourite dessert from the 70's

Avocado has no taste. It, like several other foodstuffs, has been bought by a cult following who snap up every so called 'superfood', yet the avocado, matcha, wheatgrass, chia seed brigade insist that they're healthier for eschewing what was once thought of as normal food as eaten by their parents and grandparents.
Meat itself has no taste unless marinaded or rubbed or stuffed.
When I look at Waitrose magazine, or any other foodie mag, the plates of food are strewn with pea-shoots, seeds, dabs of jus and look like a jumble of barely describable food elements thrown together. Messy plates/slates.
These are people who strut about the streets with halucinogenic cups of Costa/Starbucks/Cafe Nero sickliness, the calorific value of which would equal a normal main meal.
I'm all for bringing back sensible eating and not lauding 2 scallops with a smear of pea puree as a proper meal.

Starbucks coffee is hallucinogenic
Who knew?

That was to gabriella

IMO, people who repetitively dose themselves with coffee shop calorific coffees, are on another planet.

1-17, 19, 21-25, 27-38, 40, 42, 43 = NO.
Sourdough
Granola
Smoothie
Spinach
Blueberries
plus the last 7 on the list = YES.

Starbucks coffee is hallucinogenic
Perhaps they make it with magic mushrooms

You'll never know whether or not you like something if you don' try it GabriellaG!

From BBC Good Food:
Avocados are an excellent source of monounsaturated fat and vitamin E. However, avocados are high in calories due to the high fat content. Half an avocado counts as one portion of your 5-a day and those managing their weight might want to consider limiting the number of avocados they consume to two per week while increasing the portions of other lower calorie fruits and vegetables^

Avocados have more soluble fibre than other fruit and contain a number of useful minerals such as iron, copper and potassium and are a good source of the B vitamin, folate

100g of avocado contains about 19g of fat, of which 12g are monounsaturated fats (only 4g of saturated fat).

The hallucinations could be due to an excess of caffeine, which you could get just as easily from a jar of instant. The calorific value of Starbuck's coffee depends on which you choose - from a small americano at 5 kcal to a large caffe mocha with whole milk and whipped cream at 465 kcal. A large latte comes in at 180 kcal. Not many main meals have only 180 kcal, unless you are dieting fiercely.

There are some very interesting nutritional charts on their website www.starbucks.co.uk/quick-links/nutrition-info

elegran www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/3230-caffeine-hallucinations.html
Article about a study at Durham University about the association between caffeine intake and hallucinations.
It does say at the end that the people who had the hallucinations could be taking in more caffeine to help them cope with whatever was causing them to have the hallucinations ......

I would be tempted to say, “How interesting, do give me your top three celeriac recipes, we have a massive crop this year”.
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mamie we had some lovely celeriac soup recently at the Carriages Cafe in Bellingham.
I came home & bought a celeriac & made soup and remoulade.

We have eaten most of the things on that list. We had quinoa last night and it is beetroot and fennel tart tonight. MyDiL gave me some spirulina as she said it is helpful to diabetics. Bit of a swampy taste bough.