Do your parents eat small tomatoes like Denethor does?

[Halasían]

 

[Elbereth Gilthoniel]

Haha yes. My mom is Russian and loves pickled tomatoes, which she eats like Denethor. Being pickled, they are exceptionally juicy, which just adds to the effect...

 

[Deimos]

I eat small potatoes, they sell them at Aldi and they're great sliced in half and baked with some oil, garlic powder, and salt spread on them

Wait! Dear saints in heaven... you use.......garlic powder?...Garlic POWDER??!!!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Now you mention it, I didn't notice that! Whole cloves is the way!

 

[Deimos]

Now you mention it, I didn't notice that! Whole cloves is the way!

Well, not exactly.... youse gots to mince them or put them in a press first. 😉

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

No,just peel and put them in the pan with the potatoes. Roasting softens them and brings out their sweetness.

Nothing against sprinkling the potatoes with minced pieces too, though -- the more garlic the better, I say!

 

[Deimos]

No,just peel and put them in the pan with the potatoes. Roasting softens them and brings out their sweetness.

Nothing against sprinkling the potatoes with minced pieces too, though -- the more garlic the better, I say!

I do know some folks that roast the cloves whole... and they swear by it.
Still a whole clove is just a bit too garlicky por moi ... but de gustibus non disputandum est.
(Yet we are agreed on the unsuitability of garlic powder/dust)

 

[Idril Celebrindal]

No,just peel and put them in the pan with the potatoes. Roasting softens them and brings out their sweetness.

Nothing against sprinkling the potatoes with minced pieces too, though -- the more garlic the better, I say!
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I am never going to be able to unsee this.

 

[Deimos]

I am never going to be able to unsee this.

I feel sorry for you.... I mean that the pic is going to haunt you.
I myself have already "unseen" it. The garlic bulbs I still see.... they are what matters 🙂

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I just hope my suggestion switches the light on for a few people. 😊

 

[Ricardo]

I have to say that although that scene is pure PJ, it's actually more realistic with the way people in the middle ages were, they didn't exactly had good manners and (I can't believe I am saying this) I do give credit to PJ for that scene, he wanted to show Denethor as an evil, small man, and the contrast between Denethor eating as a pig while listening to a song while his son and others are facing death is very clear. Pippin is crying, Denethor doesn't care.

 

[Deimos]

I have to say that although that scene is pure PJ, it's actually more realistic with the way people in the middle ages were, they didn't exactly had good manners and (I can't believe I am saying this) I do give credit to PJ for that scene, he wanted to show Denethor as an evil, small man, and the contrast between Denethor eating as a pig while listening to a song while his son and others are facing death is very clear. Pippin is crying, Denethor doesn't care.

Well, (1) actually it's not realistic at all, and (2) wouldn't it perhaps be more accurate to say that the aristocracy / nobility in the middle ages had different
manners from those that you, a product of 20th C upbringing, were taught?
Nor is 'different' synonymous with 'inferior.'
Just because people ate with their fingers doesn't mean they were slobs.
Go HERE and HERE .
PJ made the same uninformed, and therefore mistaken, assumptions about Mediaeval living that anyone makes who has not actually studied that era (unlike Tolkien who did study it) and he deliberately and maliciously misrepresented Denethor.
I describe it as malicious because it is intentional character assassination.

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

When we watch Lord of the Rings, we eat tomatoes along with Denethor, exept I don't eat them grossly. I don't know if my mother does, but it is what we do while Pippin sings.

 

[herlig9]

When we watch Lord of the Rings, we eat tomatoes along with Denethor, exept I don't eat them grossly. I don't know if my mother does, but it is what we do while Pippin sings.

But do you have a mean look on your face when you eat the tomatoes during Denethor scene?

 

[Frandîr]

We just chop'em in half, throw them in a cold pasta salad and eat'em almost without chewing.