Thursday 18 April 2019
Green Thursday
" Eat your spinach it's good for you! "
Most of the Austrian populous will eat spinach today. Usually it's puréed.
As a dreamer who spent a childhood admiring Popeye the sailor man and his ability to squeeze open cans of the quick working energy food with one hand I've developed a special affection for the green leaf.
I confess not to know where the 4 or 5 million portions of spinach consumed today have their origin. But I doubt it's in the holy land.
I further confess I haven't a clue about the connection spinach has with Jesus, the disciples and the Last Supper.
Two confessions before lunch!!
Hopefully good for the soul.
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Do your Austrian people buy it ready pureed or do they do it themselves?
ReplyDeleteAt home they do it themselves. I don't know if the big restaurants do so. The Austrian mashed potatoes have the consistency of custard which in turn is called vanilla sauce and looks like yellow water. It's all very strange.
DeleteI will join you in that confession Gwil so that makes two of us.
ReplyDeleteProsit! (Cheers)
DeleteI am restraining my self of not telling the old Popeye jokes.
ReplyDeleteSpinach is a spring favourite in Israel. So its highly possible it was on the Last Supper menu.
I've never seen it in any Last Supper paintings and I've seen quite a few. Normally they have bread and wine and sometimes fish and in one painting I saw they had crabs or lobsters (couldn't make it out it was in a dark corner). But if it's a spring favourite they'd almost certainly have it served. I don't know if I'd like spinach as an accompaniment to fish. Mushy peas, yes!
DeleteI do like spinach, but an totally ignorant of the Last Supper menu.
ReplyDeleteI don't suppose anybody has much idea what they really ate. I wondered what I would order for my last meal and could only come up with the idea of a hot curry and a couple of beers.
DeleteMy understanding of the Last Supper was that it was simply bread and wine.
ReplyDeleteFrom that famous first miracle (water into wine at the wedding feast - in today's Syria I think) to the last supper it seems there's wine to be had. Even Noah went into the wine growing business after he saved all those animals. Other than that: bread and fish in the feeding of the 5,000 miracle and fish again in the miracle of the full nets. It appears to be standard fare and to be expected.
DeleteI'd imagine the Romans and their friends had a mouthwatering roast - a cingihale if they could get one.
If it was an abundance of wine and not much bread that might explain the intemperate slicing off the soldier's ear. Good job that somebody was there to stick it back on.