[Sca-cooks] OOP - Weird little question for our UK-Heritage members

[Susan Fox]

Apparently yes.  It is known to some people as an Herb  Grater.  The 
annoying part is having to pick all the parsley leaves off first because 
the fibrous stems jam the works.

http://berlinbites.blogspot.com/2006/11/chopping-parsley_25.html

http://www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/fussell/parsley.htm

Selene, known to family members as "Soogle" these days


Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> Hullo, the list!
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> Sorry to bring this up from what Americans would call Left Field, but 
> I happened to notice a little exchange in an episode of an apparently 
> Welsh-produced BBC TV series called "Being Human".
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> It included some discussion of using a Mouli hand grater -- the kind 
> with a little rotating drum that you turn with a crank handle to grate 
> things like stale bread, cheese, nuts, etc.
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> The claim, bearing in mind the questionable source, was that this 
> device is used for shredding parsley for parsley sauce, presumably the 
> bechamel-based formerly white, now green or green-speckled, stuff one 
> eats with things like boiled mutton, chicken, cod, etc.
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> Is this just an example of a screenwriter who can't cook, or is this a 
> genuine practice? It seems to me it could go either way.
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> Anybody?
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> "Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, 
> when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's 
> bellies."
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