Monday, August 15, 2011
!! Coloured Cauliflowers !!
Children reluctant to eat their veg has been a never ending struggle for parents.
That could be about to change, however, as brighter colours are worked into cauliflowers that hit the shelves at Tesco today.
The supermarket chain has launched 'rainbow' packs that will have sprigs of purple, orange and emerald green cauliflower to appeal to awkward youngsters who see the veg as boring.
Coloured cauliflowers will be exclusively sold in a 'rainbow pack' at Tesco.Tesco greens buyer Jeni Gray said: 'These cauliflowers are almost works of art and have a real wow factor that should really create a stir with shoppers and hopefully children at dinnertime.
'Cauliflower got its poor image from baby boomer generation schoolchildren who generally loathed them as they were always being told to eat their greens for health reasons.
'When food was rationed during and after the Second World War cauliflower became part of the nation's staple meat and two veg diet at school and at home.'
The rainbow coloured cauliflowers are aimed at youngsters reluctant to eat their greens
The colored cauliflowers are all naturally produced but have been crossed with other types of the brassica family, which includes green cabbage and broccoli, to make exciting colour variations
Grown in Lincolnshire the garish varieties of the boring vegetable are intended to combat a dip in demand, after sales of the veg fell 35% over ten years. The move is hoped to help improve cauliflower's popularity after it was overtaken by broccoli.
Tesco said statistics from retail analysts Kantar Worldpanel show in the last two years volume sales of cauliflower have fallen by 6.5% across all retailers while demand for broccoli has grown by 2.5%. The coloured cauliflowers are all naturally produced but have been crossed with other types of the brassica family, which includes green cabbage and broccoli.
Cauli-ful: The green, orange and purple varieties of cauliflower
That could be about to change, however, as brighter colours are worked into cauliflowers that hit the shelves at Tesco today.
The supermarket chain has launched 'rainbow' packs that will have sprigs of purple, orange and emerald green cauliflower to appeal to awkward youngsters who see the veg as boring.
Coloured cauliflowers will be exclusively sold in a 'rainbow pack' at Tesco.Tesco greens buyer Jeni Gray said: 'These cauliflowers are almost works of art and have a real wow factor that should really create a stir with shoppers and hopefully children at dinnertime.
'Cauliflower got its poor image from baby boomer generation schoolchildren who generally loathed them as they were always being told to eat their greens for health reasons.
'When food was rationed during and after the Second World War cauliflower became part of the nation's staple meat and two veg diet at school and at home.'
The rainbow coloured cauliflowers are aimed at youngsters reluctant to eat their greens
The colored cauliflowers are all naturally produced but have been crossed with other types of the brassica family, which includes green cabbage and broccoli, to make exciting colour variations
Grown in Lincolnshire the garish varieties of the boring vegetable are intended to combat a dip in demand, after sales of the veg fell 35% over ten years. The move is hoped to help improve cauliflower's popularity after it was overtaken by broccoli.
Tesco said statistics from retail analysts Kantar Worldpanel show in the last two years volume sales of cauliflower have fallen by 6.5% across all retailers while demand for broccoli has grown by 2.5%. The coloured cauliflowers are all naturally produced but have been crossed with other types of the brassica family, which includes green cabbage and broccoli.
Cauli-ful: The green, orange and purple varieties of cauliflower
The 1o strangest laws around the wOrld
In a bid to keep the streets of this super-efficient city clean, the authorities in Singapore decided in 1992 to ban chewing gum completely. Stick to a mint.
Many holidaymakers head to the sandy beach at Eraclea to escape the hordes of tourists in nearby Venice. Unfortunately, those who enjoy building sandcastles can think again – it’s forbidden.
A curious loophole in the law means that smoking tobacco in a public place such as a coffee shop in Amsterdam is banned, while puffing away on pure cannabis is entirely legal.
The durian, a fruit native to Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, has a smell so incredibly strong that it is banned from many public places in South-East Asia.
For those who are young, free and single and enjoy jumping out of planes in their spare time, be careful if you’re in Florida – unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed.
Bizarrely, flushing the toilet in a Swiss apartment is illegal after 10pm. It is also against the law for a man to relieve himself while standing up after 10pm.
Honeymooners might be best to avoid hiring a car in Eboli, just south of Naples. Kissing in a moving vehicle here can carry a fine of up to €500.
Locals in Capri, northern Italy, must value their peace and quiet – a couple were arrested recently for wearing excessively noisy flip-flops, following the introduction of a ban on ‘noisy footwear’.
The Southern American state has a quite superfluous law in place which states that it’s illegal to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.
Dubai’s luxurious resorts and stunning beaches may seem like the ideal place to spend a romantic holiday, but don’t get too affectionate – kissing in public here is illegal, and many tourists have fallen foul of this law in recent years . *
