In article >,
brooklyn1 > wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:35:40 -0500, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
> >There was Arugula in the salad bar at work last week. I knew I hated it
> >so tried to make sure I picked it out before finalizing my purchase.
> >Salad is sold by weight at many places but I still missed two leaves of
> >that stuff.
> >
> >It is foul and skunky tasting.
> >
> >What is the appeal? It's worse than Cilantro!
> >
> >Yuk.
>
> Arugula (in the mustard family) is a cold weather crop, if grown in a
> hot climate it will be bitter and foul smelling. To harvest pick the
> young outter leaves, the older leaves will be tough and very peppery.
> I doubt decent arugula can be grown where you live, it would need to
> be shipped in and arugula has a very short shelf life.... up until
> maybe ten years ago there was no commercial arugula, one had to go out
> and forage for their own. Arugula is like radish, you either like it
> or not.

Makes sense... but the stuff that was on the salad bar this week was
nasty.
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