Ugly veg

[cariann88]

Ive just been reading this artical........'Ugly' fruit and vegetables prove a hit in France - Telegraph

Would you ugly looking veg from the supermarket?

I wouldnt care if it looked nice or not but my fella said he would want to buy nice looking veg coz apparently they taste better.

[Greenleaves]

Well my veg always has blemishes and is not always pretty but tastes far and above anything from supermarket's. My MiL will only buy organically grown veg because she says she can taste the chemicals in mass produced.

[Alison]

I don't buy veg very often but if I do I chose the stuff that looks fresh and tasty which is not the supposedly perfect stuff that is grown for uniformity and transport.

[veggiechicken]

I've read about "Ugly" "Wonky" veg being offered for sale so often - as if its something original. Why don't the shoppers and supermarkets accept that ugly veg is really rather beautiful and the norm. I'm a placard waving Ugly Veg supporter - and proud of it

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...veg_68919.html
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...uit_67922.html

[Greenleaves]

I am an ugly veg

[noviceveggrower]

Veg is veg really. Doesn't matter what it looks like as it all cooks the same. Wouldn't buy it if it was bruised or bashed as it probably wouldn't keep well.
Until the big supermarkets took over and we all shopped at local shops I don't think people were bothered what their fruit or veg looked like.

[Knight of Albion]

Anyone who has grown their own fruit and vegetables will know that Nature is rarely uniform.
In terms of shape, fruit and veg do turn out 'wonky', for want of a better word, and with (harmless) blemishes and imperfections.

You go to any supermarket and you'll find rows and rows of fruit and vegetables uniform in size and shape, and blemish free.
To achieve that result, either monumental amounts of perfectly good food has been wasted or some genetic tinkering has been going on.

And whilst our little insect friends may not always be appreciated on here, if fruit and vegetables have suffered a bit of 'nibbling', it is a comforting reassurance that the grower has not gone thermo-nuclear with the Roundup.

So give me the wonky, nibbled fruit and veg any day. I know it's wholesome, healthy and what Nature intended