{"id":166,"date":"2012-06-29T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T04:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-06-29T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T11:50:06","slug":"my-immaturity-about-chokos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"My immaturity about Chokos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Chokoes\"“Mrs. Landingham: You’re not getting enough roughage in your diet, you know I’m right about that.
\nBartlet: I know I’d like to beat you senseless with a head of cabbage, I know that for damn sure.
\nMrs. Landingham: Once again you display an immaturity about vegetables that I think is not at all Presidential.”
\n(from the series West Wing by Aaron Sorkin)<\/p>\n

I love the West Wing series and the snappy quips and repartee have me and the Quality Controller in fits of laughter. I’ve recently noticed that food happens to be a consistent theme of this repartee.
\nBut back to reality… I think I need to own up to a certain disdain for a particular vegetable that Mrs Landingham would chastise me for.<\/p>\n

Focus on the CHOKO…(and these thoughts stem from a volley of comments after a FB post saying I was so with my chickens in not liking Choko):<\/p>\n

1.Is it a fruit…? It is not soft like a papaya or an avacado. It is used as a vegetable and grows on a vine of the gourd family. It is usually boiled or steamed and the closest texture I can think of is unripe pumpkin. It has absolutely no distinct flavour, is a pill to peel, has a horrible sticky juice in its skin.
\n2. Do humans eat it? For some reason some do. The Quality Controller likes it.
\n3.How come some of you have never heard of it? Because you had friends who cared for you.
\nBUT
\nAs President Bartlet’s press secretary had to back-pedal when the full force of media attention was bearing down after discovering that the President did not like green beans, I am going to try and redeem myself for my publicly announced dislike of this, one of Gods creations, by posting the following.<\/p>\n

According to the following newspaper article:<\/p>\n

“Choko is no joke”<\/a><\/p>\n

One last dig\u2013my local market stall calls them “chokes”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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