Comments by "D. von N." (@D.von.N) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1. I can confirm, Europeans are proud for their local produce and exchange of goods locally. They even preserve their own produce still. It used to be more prevalent, but many still do it, including my family, who keep sending me their own blueberry compot (adding into curd cheese for a snack), honey from Orava region, not the mix of EU and non-EU (i.e. Chinese) stuff, tomato jam (fabulous), or pepper sauce I add into arrabiata sauce made from scratch at home. I grow my own tomatoes, apples, plums, blueberries, now got a fig tree and a couple cherry trees, two strawberry beds and two thornless raspberry bushes. I am limited within the season, they obviously don't bring me fruit all year round, but for the summer full of fresh nutrients and flavour right from the plant into the mouth (raspberries were still fruiting in late October, mind you), it is worth it. Oh yes, forgot two varieties of gooseberries and a blackcurrant, too. I had one plant of sweet chili peppers, two bags of chopped peppers still in the freezer, for my next red Thai curry and arrabiata. I don't think I have ever tasted twinkies, I didn't like Oreo biscuits, I probably didn't have an ice cream last year, haven't been to the macdonald's in years and I don't drink much of sodas, it is sugarfree generic coke from Aldi, if it must be.
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  2. I don't know who considers American beef the best in the world, I think the British or Irish is, or any that has spent most of its life eating grass in the fields, not soy or corn substrates in dusty or muddy (when it rains) enclosure, that the cow never sees green grass for its entire life.
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  3. Snobs LOL. I grow some of my tomatoes, sometimes they give me excess and start rotting. I pick those that are still OK, cut off the bad bits and they are still perfect to eat into salads, or with a bread and butter. Or I make a home made sauce for pasta. Or a tomato soup even. I had a year like that I was almost fed up with them. Now I grow less plants, to avoid waste and regret.
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