I hate

Moussaka

Woah, woah, woah... No one's picked up in this? PITA to make, I'll give you that, but done right it's up there with the very best eats.

has anyone in this country even made moussaka since the 90s?

Me. And it was excellent.

Ditto.

My children called it Mouse Ka-Ka

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It is utterly horrible, basically because aubergines are utterly horrible.

Especially aubergines cooked down into a slime.

Nope. Aubergine in all its glorious forms is wonderful. Mmmmm baba ganoush. Griddled rolled around feta. Moussaka. Parmigiana. Aubergine pickle. Brinjal Bhaji. Amazingly versatile and delicious.

Parmigiana

This on its own is sufficient to justify the existence of the aubergine. Love it.

I am not a big aubergine fan, but I fucking love a parmigiana

I used to wind my kids up by suggesting meals with aubergine - even presenting them meals with aubergine in them . Its a running joke but when they got older it was brought to my attention that using the aubergine emoji in texts was really uncool .
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Ramsey's aubergine caviar is a staple in my house, lush!

The only way to consume aubergine:

You say aubergine, I say eggplant.
I suspect that here in the UK we typically only have access to 'improved' varieties, with a tough skin and an interior that would be better used for solving oil spillages in the oceans, such is its propensity to soak up unfeasible volumes of cooking oil. You may as well fry a thin synthetic sponge.
UK supermarkets love these varieties as they easily withstand transit.

Go to the Mediterranean, and the varieties of aubergine can be barbecued down to a tasty pulp that retains some texture. Go to Southall and try some of the other colours and shapes of aubergine, these are totally different to the purply-black supermarket offerings.

There’s a good essay in this week’s LRB about the development of pedigree breeds and Victorian racism which talks about crufts. Predictably Victorian

Home grown aubergine is a completely different beast to supermarket sponges ...

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Bake the tasty fuckers whole, no need to worry about oil drinkage, scoop out the inside and whizz it up with tahini and lemon and garlic.

The world of emojis suggests otherwise

Bake the tasty fuckers whole, no need to worry about oil drinkage, scoop out the inside and whizz it up with tahini and lemon and garlic.

Show dogs or aubergine?

I’ll just pop a little smoked paprika in there thanks because everything is better with a little smoked paprika.

For realz.

aubergine emoji in texts was really uncool .

Especially if you've been sweating over a hot stove.💦💦💦

Shaubergines.

That sounds banging actually. I love aubergine but I'm so shit at cooking it. Always ends up as either a flavourless and sponge textured or oily and phlegmy.