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Ok, that's probably a little harsh, but I just had my first real life experience with a young teenager with no idea about vegetables.. I'd seen snippets on Jamie Olivers shows and heard things, but.....

I was just grabbing some garlic and limes from the supermarket ready for a stir fry tonight and the girl at the counter picked up the lime and said "lemon?" I shouldn't have said a thing because lemons were about 1/6th of the price of lemons..

Then she picked up the garlic, "So this is garlic, right?"

Wow, I was pretty shocked, she must have been 16 or so and yet she was just learning what these things were.

I can't tell you how many times I have been asked if they are cucumber of zucchini.

So many times I am embarrased to admit that I am from the same generation.

Perhaps I've been a bit out of the loop because normally I buy all my fruit n veg from a greengrocer and of course there they have to know not only different fruit and veg but about 10 different varieties of each fruit..

And thats why we should all buy fruit and veg from local market dealers and not the stupidmarket

Dont get me started about teenagers.....

I think they learn things when they are young, but then become teenagers where all their knowledge gets locked away and can only be accessed after they turn 20.

I astounds me how anyone does not know the difference between a zuchini and a cucumber. For one thing the names are written under the vegies at the stupermarket. I lived in a share house with 3 other mates and one of these mate continuosly bought zuchinis when sent to the shops to get cucumber for our home made tzatziki for lamb on the spit. Apart from being green and long and round they do not look anything like each other!

we had a girl of about 20 who came and bought some figgs from us while she was here the chooks were out walking around our feet we asked her if she wanted some eggs she grabed some eggs then asked where we got our eggs from? we pointed to the chooks chooks
she said yes i can see your chooks but where do you get your eggs

anouther laddy of about 40 who buys our figgs got some eggs but the next time she came around she told us she had to throw them out. I asked why ?
she told me they had bright yellow GOING ON orange yolkes so they must have been rotten she had never had free range eggs before

Ohh dear .......

Didn't you all know that meat comes on black trays in the supermarket? It was never a cute little lamb or calf running around in a paddock.

I thought food was grown out the back of Mcdonalds...

How's this, our super rip off market, has uploaded a program for the girls to identify the vegitable, with a picture, on the till.........I couldn't believe it, now I can't bullshit the apples

Yep, it astounds me also. Sadly Jamie Oliver and the other programs are providing an important social service. Its not just teenagers, its their parents.....

Had a look in the new town houses across the road - 2 where one house was. Both bigger than the 1 house was on the block and both with 1 small square of grass 2.5mX2.5m. People want 'low maintenance living'.

These are Town houses which will sell to a family with Kids(now or soon). They wont ever see a garden.

Sorry you've all got it wrong about our youth, from the ages 13-25 y/o they know everything.

Oh no! Its worse than we thought!

I had to look up what a zucchini look like