Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Theft of the root vegetables

I never realized how many different kinds of root vegetables there are. Americans generally eat two kinds: potatoes and carrots; and radishes if you're really adventurous. We've been getting an assortment of veggies delivered to our house each week, mostly because it's cheaper than buying them at the store. As it's getting cold, most of them have been roots of various types: potatoes and carrots, of course, but also swede, beetroot, celery root, parsnip. The swede and celery root both looked like old deflated basketballs that had been left buried for a while.

Anyway, this morning we woke to a phone call from the company that delivers the box to say that after they had delivered it, someone stole it - somebody else in our building also gets a box and had called them. Hope they enjoy - maybe they'll know better than us what to do with all those roots.

2 comments:

Dane and Jo said...

Dane's a "swede," does that count? Bummer about the stolen veggies. Thinking of you guys a lot!

Rebecca said...

BUMMER. Stolen roots?! They picked the wrong time of year to steal the box. And I was all excited to see what great recipes Some would come up with! :)