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[Swatopluk]

Concerning Turkish grocers

Often they occur in small groups of shops, e.g. one selling fruit, the second bread,cheese, pickled stuff and the third the 'raw' green stuff, i.e. all kinds of vegetables. A Döner is also often close nearby. The Döner variety invented in Berlin (where I live) has started a world conquest and is in some countries (e.g. China) considered a quintessential German food (same as chop suey is seen as typical American)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab#Germany.
I hear it has also started to make inroads in Turkey itself.

[The Meromorph]

Do Turkish greengrocers actually sell greens? It doesn't seem very Turkish. In the UK "greens" as in vegetable are very specific - the term is assumed to mean a particular vegetable leaf rather than being a generic term for several different types - or stages of development. At least, as far as I have ever shopped, cooked and eaten.

Ain't you never heard of Greengrocers, girl? Used to be one in nearly every block of local shops in England...

[Griffin NoName]

^ we still have them............ but if you specify "greens" as a food it means the specific leaf. An interesting observation- I have never eaten greens or seen greens on the menu at a restaurant. I guess greens aint posh which may be why they are specific.

Turkish Grocers are presumably distinct from Turkish Greengrocers? Or not?

[Swatopluk]

It seems at least peculiar that Turkish shops for edible things tend to sell either fruit or veggies but not both at the same time around here and are often door to door. German shops usually combine both.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Unless the manager of your friendly neighborhood Aldi is Turkish...

[Swatopluk]

Not the manager (to my knowledge) but one of the guys that works there is a Turk.
And the Turkish shops as described above lie directly next to the Aldi

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I'm sure it must be a delight, unless they don't sell those.

[Swatopluk]

Is Turkish dellight even Turkish?

[Griffin NoName]

I don't like the orange coloured ones.

[Aggie]

For years I thought Turkish delight was something that only occured in Narnia. We have a Turkish delight based chocolate bar here (sort of), but it's otherwise a rare confection.

^ we still have them............ but if you specify "greens" as a food it means the specific leaf. An interesting observation- I have never eaten greens or seen greens on the menu at a restaurant. I guess greens aint posh which may be why they are specific.

Ok, so what are greens by that definition? What kind of plant?

[The Meromorph]

Turnip greens, Dandelion greens, Parsnip greens, and such. Generally the leafy, above-ground parts of root vegetables.

[Griffin NoName]

Humbly disagree with Mero. Those would be called eg. parsnip tops.

Greens is dark leaf of cabbage - full term is spring greens - but in my house just truncated to "greens".

http://www.thinkvegetables.co.uk/vegetable.asp?VegetableID=21

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Ocado-Spring-Greens/56302011?from=search&tags=%7C20000&param=greens&parentContainer=SEARCHgreens_SHELFVIEW

[The Meromorph]

I humbly accept correction. 

[Griffin NoName]

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[Swatopluk]

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