Broccoli

[The Captain]

I'd like everyone to know that I fixed my Roksan Caspian cd player dicky drawer (earlier late 90's type) with a rubberband I removed from a 'brace' of Tesco broccoli. I am consistently amazed, by my own brilliance.

That is all.

Capt

 

[Vinny]

That is calabrese NOT broccoli.

Skrew what know-nothing supermarket buyers reckon.

To compensate, the same morons have to invent new names for actual broccoli, such as "purple sprouting" (brocolli).

 

[martin clark]

^ what a way, to miss the point ...

everybody hates 'broccoli';
Everybody here - loves the fixing of endemic Roksan-deficiencies, for the betterment of Humanity.

 

[Vinny]

^ what a way, to miss the point ...

Not at all - it drives me up the wall - most of it following Americanisms. Sea bass instead of bass, romaine instead of cos, broccoli instead of calabrese, FFS we will be eating rutabegas and scallions next.

 

[The Captain]

Cala what? Vinny comes along & really upsets my broccoli magic moment..

 

[paulfromcamden]

I asked the interweb what calabrese was and it says it's a type of broccoli. Phew.

I really like broccoli.

Though obviously I refer to it as 'little trees' because I have a mental age of five.

 

[Marchbanks]

I'd like everyone to know that I fixed my Roksan Caspian cd player dicky drawer (earlier late 90's type) with a rubberband I removed from a 'brace' of Tesco broccoli. I am consistently amazed, by my own brilliance.

That is all.

Capt

And as you fixed it you sang ‘put on the red band! Roksa-a-a-an!’ didn’t you? Don’t try to deny it.

 

[Tony L]

Can someone please just blind-test the calabrese rubber band against a standard broccoli rubber band and let us know which is best.

 

[narabdela]

Not at all - it drives me up the wall - most of it following Americanisms. Sea bass instead of bass, romaine instead of cos, broccoli instead of calabrese, FFS we will be eating rutabegas and scallions next.

Try asking for syboes in Sassenachland.

 

[Pete MB&D]

I was in a garden center they had seeds for Romanesco one packet said Broccoli the other one said cauliflower.

Pete

 

[Craig B]

Cue The Spinners...

 

[a.palfreyman]

It only romaines to be seen if a blue Elastica band from spring onions does the same thing...lettuce hope so.

 

[cubastreet]

Calabrese means "of Calabria". Lots of things and people are Calabrese. It's actually broccoli.

Nice fix BTW.

 

[-alan-]

Not at all - it drives me up the wall - most of it following Americanisms. Sea bass instead of bass, romaine instead of cos, broccoli instead of calabrese, FFS we will be eating rutabegas and scallions next.

Pray tell.. what is wrong with 'scallions' and the eating thereof ?

 

[Vinny]

Pray tell.. what is wrong with 'scallions' and the eating thereof ?

Absolutely nothing if you are in the US or anywhere using American English.

 

[TimF]

There will be from here on out a new mod called "The broccoli mod". Coolness for sure!

 

[The Captain]

Actually Tim the drawer's working better than it's ever done with my broccoli mod. It's genius.

Capt

 

[martin clark]

Free upgrade, with every batch of broccoli you buy in future!

Which is just as well - it won't last forever, the plasticisers will go away fairly quickly (very very quickly if you store spares in a polystyrene cup/ in contact with polystyrene...)

 

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[muchtoofast]

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The power to upgrade with the broccoli is within all of us.

Yeah I know the point is elastic bands, but broccoli are way more interesting to create, less chewy and come with health benefits.