Tesco's selling Jews Ears Fungi!!

[AdrianRose]

Now that I've finally got my issues sorted out with uploading pics (thanks Ashley et al) I thought that you might be interested in this.

I saw this at Tesco's today and nearly passed out.



Jews ears aka wood ears for sale at over £74 per kilo!!

I put this on twitter too and its been retweeted so many times now, it can't just be me that finds it insane.

Ade

[Tony1948]

But also for you'r £74.75 you do get Clubcard points aswell Ade.

[Geoff Dann]

[splittin' hairs]

Firstly, those aren't jew's ears. "Wood ear" is the common name of a related species with the latin name Auricularia polytricha. It grows in warmer climates, not in the UK. Not much difference from a culinary point of view though.

Secondly, they are dried. Have you ever tried drying Jew's ears? I have, and I can tell you that you have to pick a load of them before they'll weight 1kg dried. Reconstituted, 1kg of dried ones makes a lot of ear mushrooms.

[/splittin' hairs]

Nice to see them on sale though.

[jus_young]

Can I just remind folk of the forum guidelines to be found in the 'intro' section, particularly the part relating to swearing and grawlixes!

[AdrianRose]

Can I just remind folk of the forum guidelines to be found in the 'intro' section, particularly the part relating to swearing and grawlixes!

Sorry buddy did I swear?

Ade

[ratcatcher]

Can I just remind folk of the forum guidelines to be found in the 'intro' section, particularly the part relating to swearing and grawlixes!

as a new member and not wanting to break any rules, can someone highlight the "wrong bit" as Im sat here reading all these posts for about the fourth time and I cant see any swearing, as for grawlixes, as I dont know what that is, surely I can't be found to doing it???

[Geoff Dann]

as a new member and not wanting to break any rules, can someone highlight the "wrong bit" as Im sat here reading all these posts for about the fourth time and I cant see any swearing, as for grawlixes, as I dont know what that is, surely I can't be found to doing it???

I suspect I'm the g**lty party here. ;-D

[ratcatcher]

I suspect I'm the g**lty party here. ;-D

[splittin' hairs]

Firstly, those aren't jew's ears. "Wood ear" is the common name of a related species with the latin name Auricularia polytricha. It grows in warmer climates, not in the UK. Not much difference from a culinary point of view though.

Secondly, they are dried. Have you ever tried drying Jew's ears? I have, and I can tell you that you have to pick a load of them before they'll weight 1kg dried. Reconstituted, 1kg of dried ones makes a lot of ear mushrooms.

[/splittin' hairs]

Nice to see them on sale though.

ok, but still cant see any swearing, so are we talking grawlixes, whatever they are ?????????

[jus_young]

Guilty bit was deleted and yes it was Geoff

[MadZ]

scandalous prices, really gets me that some people think they can charge this kind of money for some mushrooms seriously, i bet the farmer(s) dont see anywhere near that price for a tonne of them.


Ratcatcher, the reason you can see whats wrong here is because the post has been edited by a moderator, so if you see something like this "Last edited by Joe bloggs; Today at 06:16 AM." at the bottom left hand corner of the post, its been changed to fit the forum rules or because some one made a spelling mistake or similar.

cheers

Madz