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Thread ID: 141628	2016-01-23 19:59:00	Watercress Sandwiches - Why not in NZ?	kahawai chaser (3545)	PC World Chat

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1415003	2016-01-23 19:59:00	Is it true they are common in the UK? If so, why? Seems they been farming it for hundreds of years (watercress.co.uk) (history facts) even repoted in UK Guardian (www.theguardian.com) as healthy. i think also common in USA, but most NZ lunch bars, have no watercress/chicken sandwiches, always includes boring/tasteless lettuce, maybe a bit of avocado/tomato. Even our major food stores don't stock it, yet tons of baby lettuce mixed salad bags. I recall a elderly UK man I worked with years ago, mentioned he would eat it, sometimes with eels and pies (for real?) at certain UK shops. Even David Bowie in later years liked them in New York. Must be a UK thing.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1415004	2016-01-23 20:11:00	Sure is It grew wild in streams near where I grew up	gary67 (56)
1415005	2016-01-23 20:16:00	Is it true they are common in the UK? If so, why? Seems they been farming it for hundreds of years (watercress.co.uk) (history facts) even repoted in UK Guardian (www.theguardian.com) as healthy. i think also common in USA, but most NZ lunch bars, have no watercress/chicken sandwiches, always includes boring/tasteless lettuce, maybe a bit of avocado/tomato. Even our major food stores don't stock it, yet tons of baby lettuce mixed salad bags. I recall a elderly UK man I worked with years ago, mentioned he would eat it, sometimes with eels and pies (for real?) at certain UK shops. Even David Bowie in later years liked them in New York. Must be a UK thing. I wonder if it's because it's not commercially grown here? I last bought some at the Onetangi Sunday market a month or two back and that was probably gathered from some local streams. When I lived in Wellington about 20 years ago, a shop in Cuba Mall often sold it. Good if you can find it, and with its spicy tang lifts whatever it accompanys above the norm.	WalOne (4202)
1415006	2016-01-23 20:17:00	Sounds disgusting to me, but I'm all for more choice. It seems like every food shop I visit fills their sandwiches & rolls with shredded carrot and mayonnaise, neither of which I like much at all. My favourite sandwiches are nothing special, yet they are almost impossible to buy. Ideally I like ham, tomato, cheese, pepper and mustard but will settle for any combination really and can live with a bit of lettuce in it. Even straight ham and mustard is hard to find locally these days. They could at least tone down the carrot, seems like half the sandwich some times. We have a supermarket next to work now though, so I moving towards buying fresh ingredients and making my own. The Deli has a lot of appealing fillings ready made.	dugimodo (138)
1415007	2016-01-23 21:20:00	It is commercially grown in New Zealand, there is a grower in the Nelson region and is sold in the local New World and it's possibly nationally distributed through that supermarket chain. We buy it occasionally though it is expensive and lacks the peppery flavour of the UK variety	bonzo29 (2348)
1415008	2016-01-24 00:29:00	I've bought it - a while ago - a few times. Usually From a maori on the side of the road. It needs running water to grow well, streams etc...probably why it's not that common. The stuff I got was quite peppery. As for lunch shops, most are crap these days. Best one I ever went to was in Queens Arcade years ago. Probably gone now or owned by asians. He made french bread rolls, salami, chicken, ham etc but with awesome bits of salad, not the standard stuff and various dressings - they were so nice. The floppy bread rolls with lettuce, a slice of limp meat and a piece of tomato and one end and a slice of egg at the other are crap. We make out own lunches these days anyway.	pctek (84)
1415009	2016-01-24 02:27:00	Usually From a maori on the side of the road. It needs running water to grow well, streams etc...probably why it's not that common. I'd be cautious doing that and wouldn't buy it unless I could be assured of some kind of quality control. So many of our streams are polluted with livestock effluent and I'd think twice. As for lunch shops, most are crap these days. Absolutely, the majority exist for the local factory lunches. They all seem to flog off the same fixed fare, but that's all their client base wants. A few years ago, a sandwich place at the end of Lincoln Rd over the Motorway tried selling healthy fare - plated salads, cold cuts etc. The local workers duly tried them out for a week or so, then went back to the opposition lunch bars that sold their usual fare. The new place only lasted about two months then went out of business.	WalOne (4202)
1415010	2016-01-24 02:43:00	When I want a peppery taste I use pepper :p	dugimodo (138)
1415011	2016-01-24 02:46:00	Without Vegemite, watercress is ok, but not so great. With it, it is just the bees knees :)	R2x1 (4628)
1415012	2016-01-24 02:57:00	When I want a peppery taste I use pepper :p I've never tried a pepper sandwich, is it good?	bonzo29 (2348)
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