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Default Whole Canned Beets w/cheese recipe - Fraud!

On Thu, 21 May 2009 00:06:17 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

>sf wrote:
>
>>>There is a variety of beet grown just for its leaves. It's called "chard."

>>
>> Maybe I'm picky, but chard does not taste even remotely like beet to
>> me.

>
>Why would it? Do lily bulbs taste like lilies? Do potato leaves taste like
>potatoes? Do carrot greens taste like carrots?
>
>Do you think that beet greens really taste like beets? I don't; I think they
>taste like chard.
>

I'm not following your logic. First you tell me to buy chard because
it's a variety of beet, I say chard doesn't taste like beet greens,
then you say it shouldn't. So why bring it up in the first place?


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