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Simon Gates wrote

Yes I know. However the chances of me going to Tunisia are slim to non
existent without a sponsor and I don't have many of them beating a path
to me door at the moment.

No that is wrong. The Tunisian dates, to a fruit, I have bought over
the course have my quest have all been shite. We aren't seeing anything
even approaching class 2. Not on general sale anyway, the good stuff
isn't for us white-eyes.

 

Linger wrote

Are his staff polish?

 

wessie wrote

I'll make you a cake if you want a cake. I don't mind. I like making
cakes and my cake making is nowhere near the standard of my pastry
making and thus needs all the practice it can get and given that I am
only really fond of very plain cakes it don't get half the practice it
could. What would you like?

 

wessie wrote

Do make it fucking easy won't you? See, now I like a Madeira cake made
with mandarin oranges, you may not and anyway you aren't getting one

Date and walnut it is then. I'll use Tunisian "eating dates",
apparently they are good for cooking.

The BoSM is soon innit? I could do it for then, or not. I'll see.

 

wrote

Well I've got a growing pile of pips over me left shoulder in the corner
by the window, we'll see what comes up.

While we are waiting I suggest you pass some of the time having a read
of the ukrm cbt.

 

It might not be, I've got to look for what appeals to me as a recipe for
something I might eat first. I'm not cooking anything I might not like.
That done I shall have to make a test one and if is any good the next
three will be mine as well. You could be waiting ages.

 

Okay. Do you want the dried ones, or the ones in the sticky goo?

I'll see what I can do.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

Erm, err. Dunno. I am used to dried ones but I am willing to try.
Anything has got to be better than Tunisian.

Excellent.

 

steve auvache wrote

The saga continues.

Last night I had a word with my mate Abdul who delivers my curries.

It was really an interesting chat on may levels not the least of which
is that he says the best dates come from Saudi.

A simple question, "Where can I buy decent dates?" and it starts a
conversation wherein I learn that he, a very new immigrant, has not a
clue where his other brother very new immigrants live. It took me a
little while but I did manage to get him to admit that here and 30 miles
in any direction is White Mans Land and we are a bit short on "Ethnic
Corner Shoppes," and that my nearest Muslim enclave was a bunch of newly
arrived Kosovans (he didn't actually spit but he came close) the other
side of Southend.

Anyway, he reckons limehouse/stepney for decent Saudi Dates.

 

No. I checked today and he still has some in the fridge.

 

I had a quick dekko in the supermarket the other day, and it seems that
the Saudi ones are at the top of the price range.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

Imported ain't they?

I am hearing two fairly consistent themes with regards to this. The
consensus appears to be; when you start asking for 'good' dates, Iraqi
dates are the very very best[1] closely followed by Saudi ones. And
second that the Tunisian ones are only ever sold as warranted fit for
camel food or to Europeans.


[1] Something about the soil and climate in the Euphrates Valley or
somewhere being ideal for them, the same as we have with Tiptree and
Strawberries