On 2016-12-10 9:30 AM, l not -l wrote:
> On 10-Dec-2016, notbob > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-12-09, Dave Smith > wrote:
>>
>>> ....even if it isn't really food.
>>
>> It isn't!?
>>
>> Cajun/Creole cooks may disagree. If a "crudite" is not a food, WTF is
>> it? I eat celery w/ peanut butter all the time. Celery soup is not
>> food? The WTF is it?
>>
>> Wanna try, again, Dave?
>>
>> nb
> +1
> Also good with cream cheese. And much more sturdy as a dip delivery
> vehicle than potato chips; I've never broken a celery stick in the spinach
> dip bowl 8-)
>

Celery is useful as a flavouring ingredient and as a delivery vehicle
for food.