Fresh or Frozen?

• Guest 690

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  21 December 2010     17:3685926
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  Got the turkey this morning down M & S, fresh of course as always. Why of course? Because food always tastes better fresh than frozen, doesn`t it? Well, this is something I`ve said yes to over the years, that food seems to have less flavour if frozen and it only occurred to me a short while ago to ask a panel of experts what they thought. YOU! Well, fresh, frozen, or can`t taste the difference?
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Keith Sansum1

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  21 December 2010     17:3785927
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  i prefer fresh to frozen
  but dont say no to frozen
  ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
• Guest 703

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  21 December 2010     17:4985930
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  Fresh (unless it's a two week hung pheasant). Got a large M&S free range chicken instead of a turkey at the new M&S food hall on Sturry Road in Canterbury - worth the trip for the choice, and plenty of free parking.
  
  (I know, we should have shopped in Dover but we had to go there for something else, and this place is bigger than the whole Dover shop)
• Guest 660

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  21 December 2010     17:5385932
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  except in the case of Sprouts,they never tast good until they have had a hard frost or are frozen,I spent years picking them so I know.
  If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
• Terrismark

  • Location: Dover
  21 December 2010     19:3685951
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  I prefer a fresh in both meat and veg - I don't like buying them frozen - cost a little more but definitely worth the pennies.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  21 December 2010     19:5685957
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  fresh always tastes better, but growing your own stuff spoils you for the shop bought stuff.
  
  i grew runner beans, carrots, peas and radishes many years ago and can never eat the stuff from the shops now.
• Ross Miller

  • Location: London Road, Dover
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  21 December 2010     20:3485963
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  prefer my turkey to stay alive and die of old age
  
  but then I am a veggie
  "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
  
  "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
  While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  21 December 2010     20:3885964
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  for your perfect chritmass lunch is an easy choise,
  1,grow your own turkey,feed well on corn etc.
  2,grow your own veggies.
  
  ross,ignore item 1 and go straght to no.2 but make sure you groew the ones you like the most.
• Guest 700

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  22 December 2010     23:2286130
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  At present we are eating own produce out of freezer, ie. courgettes, runner beans, french beans, purple beetroot and golden beetroot, raspberries, plums, tomatoes.
  But I do always prefer fresh veg - and locally produced (ie in season). I dislike having to buy fruit and veg which has obviously been picked unripe - it ripens of course, but the flavour is not there. Tomatoes especially. Once the snow is gone we will dig some more parsnips - the roots aren't so straight as the 'supermarket' types but flavour excellent.
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• Guest 703

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  23 December 2010     00:4486138
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  Kath, agree with you about tomatoes, ripe ones are in very short supply at present but a few years ago we would only have expected them in season, not all through the year.
  
  Home grown and fresh picked definitely taste best.
• Guest 653

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  24 December 2010     07:5486290
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  On TV recently, they were showing Planet Earth where they grow thousand of tomato plants in the dead of winter; not sure where P.E. is I thought it was in East Kent but maybe I'm thinking of Planet Thanet.
  
  I can't eat tomatoes now because they bring on my gout, I used to enjoy them.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 702

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  24 December 2010     09:2086314
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  It's Thanet Earth. You can see the greenhouses from some distance, especially at night when the lights are on.
  
  http://www.thanetearth.com/
  www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery
• Guest 653

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  24 December 2010     19:1986393
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  Thanks Ken
  
  
  
  Roger