Comments on: Like apples and oranges http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/ Sat, 12 May 2012 19:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10608 Melissa Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:57:46 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10608 @Eugene: well, yeah, you can ask for a green lemon, but you'll get just that - a lemon that isn't completely ripe yet. Turks are quite fond of fruit that isn't ripe (plums especially - they like them crispy and green), which I know sounds terrible, but I've managed to avoid eating too much underripe fruit so far. @Eugene: well, yeah, you can ask for a green lemon, but you’ll get just that – a lemon that isn’t completely ripe yet. Turks are quite fond of fruit that isn’t ripe (plums especially – they like them crispy and green), which I know sounds terrible, but I’ve managed to avoid eating too much underripe fruit so far.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340593 Melissa Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:57:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340593 @Eugene: well, yeah, you can ask for a green lemon, but you'll get just that - a lemon that isn't completely ripe yet. Turks are quite fond of fruit that isn't ripe (plums especially - they like them crispy and green), which I know sounds terrible, but I've managed to avoid eating too much underripe fruit so far. @Eugene: well, yeah, you can ask for a green lemon, but you’ll get just that – a lemon that isn’t completely ripe yet. Turks are quite fond of fruit that isn’t ripe (plums especially – they like them crispy and green), which I know sounds terrible, but I’ve managed to avoid eating too much underripe fruit so far.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10607 Melissa Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:56:03 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10607 @taujb: yikes, considering that lemons are 1ytl per kg, 18 is tremendously expensive. Hell, fish and shrimp don't even cost that much! Wow. Thanks for your research, though. If I get really desperate for limes I'll let you know. :-D @taujb: yikes, considering that lemons are 1ytl per kg, 18 is tremendously expensive. Hell, fish and shrimp don’t even cost that much! Wow.

Thanks for your research, though. If I get really desperate for limes I’ll let you know. :-D

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340592 Melissa Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:56:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340592 @taujb: yikes, considering that lemons are 1ytl per kg, 18 is tremendously expensive. Hell, fish and shrimp don't even cost that much! Wow. Thanks for your research, though. If I get really desperate for limes I'll let you know. :-D @taujb: yikes, considering that lemons are 1ytl per kg, 18 is tremendously expensive. Hell, fish and shrimp don’t even cost that much! Wow.

Thanks for your research, though. If I get really desperate for limes I’ll let you know. :-D

]]> By: Eugene http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10606 Eugene Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:48:04 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10606 I guess asking for a green lemon doesn't work, huh? :p I guess asking for a green lemon doesn’t work, huh? :p

]]> By: Eugene http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340591 Eugene Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:48:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340591 I guess asking for a green lemon doesn't work, huh? :p I guess asking for a green lemon doesn’t work, huh? :p

]]> By: taujb http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10565 taujb Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:46:09 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10565 @Melissa: Yep, it's official, I've seen, with my own eyes not 2 hrs. ago, that they do indeed sell lime in Istanbul. It was in CarrefourSA this time around. It's, however, 18.-YTL / Kg. and that's expensive! Apparently they are imported all the way from Brasil. Just wanted to let you know. @Melissa: Yep, it’s official, I’ve seen, with my own eyes not 2 hrs. ago, that they do indeed sell lime in Istanbul. It was in CarrefourSA this time around. It’s, however, 18.-YTL / Kg. and that’s expensive! Apparently they are imported all the way from Brasil.

Just wanted to let you know.

]]> By: taujb http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340590 taujb Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:46:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340590 @Melissa: Yep, it's official, I've seen, with my own eyes not 2 hrs. ago, that they do indeed sell lime in Istanbul. It was in CarrefourSA this time around. It's, however, 18.-YTL / Kg. and that's expensive! Apparently they are imported all the way from Brasil. Just wanted to let you know. @Melissa: Yep, it’s official, I’ve seen, with my own eyes not 2 hrs. ago, that they do indeed sell lime in Istanbul. It was in CarrefourSA this time around. It’s, however, 18.-YTL / Kg. and that’s expensive! Apparently they are imported all the way from Brasil.

Just wanted to let you know.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10419 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:45:16 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10419 @djhomeless: from what I understand, you need saplings rather than seeds, which might be difficult to get in the country. Not sure, though. @djhomeless: from what I understand, you need saplings rather than seeds, which might be difficult to get in the country. Not sure, though.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340589 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:45:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340589 @djhomeless: from what I understand, you need saplings rather than seeds, which might be difficult to get in the country. Not sure, though. @djhomeless: from what I understand, you need saplings rather than seeds, which might be difficult to get in the country. Not sure, though.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10418 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:43:58 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10418 @Cahit: yeah, but limes and lemons taste completely different, as you know. We should make it our goal to source some saplings and start a lime thing here. :-D @Cahit: yeah, but limes and lemons taste completely different, as you know. We should make it our goal to source some saplings and start a lime thing here. :-D

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340588 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:43:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340588 @Cahit: yeah, but limes and lemons taste completely different, as you know. We should make it our goal to source some saplings and start a lime thing here. :-D @Cahit: yeah, but limes and lemons taste completely different, as you know. We should make it our goal to source some saplings and start a lime thing here. :-D

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10417 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:41:35 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10417 @taujb: ooooooh, if that's true then I need to hook up with them and see what I do to get some shipped down here. Thanks for the tip! @taujb: ooooooh, if that’s true then I need to hook up with them and see what I do to get some shipped down here. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340587 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:41:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340587 @taujb: ooooooh, if that's true then I need to hook up with them and see what I do to get some shipped down here. Thanks for the tip! @taujb: ooooooh, if that’s true then I need to hook up with them and see what I do to get some shipped down here. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10416 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:39:09 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10416 @Jen: yeah, I think you're right, the next plan is to see where I can source saplings and go from there. Getting them in the country is the tricky part, though. @Jen: yeah, I think you’re right, the next plan is to see where I can source saplings and go from there. Getting them in the country is the tricky part, though.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340586 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:39:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340586 @Jen: yeah, I think you're right, the next plan is to see where I can source saplings and go from there. Getting them in the country is the tricky part, though. @Jen: yeah, I think you’re right, the next plan is to see where I can source saplings and go from there. Getting them in the country is the tricky part, though.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10415 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:37:22 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10415 @Vivian: my guess is the initial reaction wouldn't be great. Turkish cuisine is very set in its ways; if you try to modify things they don't always take it so well. But there are enough foreigners living in this area that I would think there'd be a market for an expat commissary of sorts. @Vivian: my guess is the initial reaction wouldn’t be great. Turkish cuisine is very set in its ways; if you try to modify things they don’t always take it so well. But there are enough foreigners living in this area that I would think there’d be a market for an expat commissary of sorts.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340585 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:37:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340585 @Vivian: my guess is the initial reaction wouldn't be great. Turkish cuisine is very set in its ways; if you try to modify things they don't always take it so well. But there are enough foreigners living in this area that I would think there'd be a market for an expat commissary of sorts. @Vivian: my guess is the initial reaction wouldn’t be great. Turkish cuisine is very set in its ways; if you try to modify things they don’t always take it so well. But there are enough foreigners living in this area that I would think there’d be a market for an expat commissary of sorts.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10412 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:35:40 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10412 @Ardent: I can say from my extensive experience with 5-star hotels here that none of the ones I've been in have had limes (in fact, it was at a 5-star where the tequila story happened). As for Asian restaurants, aside from a few western-style Chinese places we don't really have those, either. And the chinese restaurant we found didn't want to tell us anything about where they bought stuff (I tried to ask them where they got their tofu, and they told me that if I wanted tofu I could come in and eat at their restaurant). @Ardent: I can say from my extensive experience with 5-star hotels here that none of the ones I’ve been in have had limes (in fact, it was at a 5-star where the tequila story happened). As for Asian restaurants, aside from a few western-style Chinese places we don’t really have those, either. And the chinese restaurant we found didn’t want to tell us anything about where they bought stuff (I tried to ask them where they got their tofu, and they told me that if I wanted tofu I could come in and eat at their restaurant).

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340584 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:35:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340584 @Ardent: I can say from my extensive experience with 5-star hotels here that none of the ones I've been in have had limes (in fact, it was at a 5-star where the tequila story happened). As for Asian restaurants, aside from a few western-style Chinese places we don't really have those, either. And the chinese restaurant we found didn't want to tell us anything about where they bought stuff (I tried to ask them where they got their tofu, and they told me that if I wanted tofu I could come in and eat at their restaurant). @Ardent: I can say from my extensive experience with 5-star hotels here that none of the ones I’ve been in have had limes (in fact, it was at a 5-star where the tequila story happened). As for Asian restaurants, aside from a few western-style Chinese places we don’t really have those, either. And the chinese restaurant we found didn’t want to tell us anything about where they bought stuff (I tried to ask them where they got their tofu, and they told me that if I wanted tofu I could come in and eat at their restaurant).

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10411 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:33:01 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10411 @Nicole: ah yes, the Italian green lemon, I remember those. They're lovely, and I love how produce in Italian markets is all irregularly shaped and "ugly" and the most flavourful stuff in the world. But also thank goodness for being able to get foreign stuff on base! @Nicole: ah yes, the Italian green lemon, I remember those. They’re lovely, and I love how produce in Italian markets is all irregularly shaped and “ugly” and the most flavourful stuff in the world. But also thank goodness for being able to get foreign stuff on base!

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340583 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:33:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340583 @Nicole: ah yes, the Italian green lemon, I remember those. They're lovely, and I love how produce in Italian markets is all irregularly shaped and "ugly" and the most flavourful stuff in the world. But also thank goodness for being able to get foreign stuff on base! @Nicole: ah yes, the Italian green lemon, I remember those. They’re lovely, and I love how produce in Italian markets is all irregularly shaped and “ugly” and the most flavourful stuff in the world. But also thank goodness for being able to get foreign stuff on base!

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10410 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:31:28 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10410 @Jake: sadly, I think you're probably right. I guess that means you don't have them in Adana, eh? @Jake: sadly, I think you’re probably right. I guess that means you don’t have them in Adana, eh?

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340582 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:31:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340582 @Jake: sadly, I think you're probably right. I guess that means you don't have them in Adana, eh? @Jake: sadly, I think you’re probably right. I guess that means you don’t have them in Adana, eh?

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10408 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:30:38 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10408 @Kalli: we had that plastic bottle lemon juice in England, also - perhaps it's a European thing. @Kalli: we had that plastic bottle lemon juice in England, also – perhaps it’s a European thing.

]]> By: Melissa http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340581 Melissa Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:30:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340581 @Kalli: we had that plastic bottle lemon juice in England, also - perhaps it's a European thing. @Kalli: we had that plastic bottle lemon juice in England, also – perhaps it’s a European thing.

]]> By: Cahit Yalcin http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10332 Cahit Yalcin Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:08:54 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10332 You ara right Melissa, we Turks just dont use limes. Part reason is that we have abundant supplies of lemon, so no one notices the difference. Other is we do not have a lime-based culture. Things like margarita, tequila, lime tart, sorbet or syrup are not traditional so we just dont pay attention to difference. I was looking to buy some lime trees a few years ago when I was planting my garden, but I also had blank faces from suppliers that time. If you can manage to find a supply of saplings, just let me know too. I would love to have a lime tree in my garden. (I dont think one can grow lime tree from seed) You ara right Melissa, we Turks just dont use limes. Part reason is that we have abundant supplies of lemon, so no one notices the difference. Other is we do not have a lime-based culture. Things like margarita, tequila, lime tart, sorbet or syrup are not traditional so we just dont pay attention to difference. I was looking to buy some lime trees a few years ago when I was planting my garden, but I also had blank faces from suppliers that time. If you can manage to find a supply of saplings, just let me know too. I would love to have a lime tree in my garden. (I dont think one can grow lime tree from seed)

]]> By: Cahit Yalcin http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340580 Cahit Yalcin Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:08:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340580 You ara right Melissa, we Turks just dont use limes. Part reason is that we have abundant supplies of lemon, so no one notices the difference. Other is we do not have a lime-based culture. Things like margarita, tequila, lime tart, sorbet or syrup are not traditional so we just dont pay attention to difference. I was looking to buy some lime trees a few years ago when I was planting my garden, but I also had blank faces from suppliers that time. If you can manage to find a supply of saplings, just let me know too. I would love to have a lime tree in my garden. (I dont think one can grow lime tree from seed) You ara right Melissa, we Turks just dont use limes. Part reason is that we have abundant supplies of lemon, so no one notices the difference. Other is we do not have a lime-based culture. Things like margarita, tequila, lime tart, sorbet or syrup are not traditional so we just dont pay attention to difference. I was looking to buy some lime trees a few years ago when I was planting my garden, but I also had blank faces from suppliers that time. If you can manage to find a supply of saplings, just let me know too. I would love to have a lime tree in my garden. (I dont think one can grow lime tree from seed)

]]> By: taujb http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-10324 taujb Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:52:06 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-10324 I think I've seen imported lime sold in Metro Grossmarkets in Istanbul, although I'm not 100 % sure. I think I’ve seen imported lime sold in Metro Grossmarkets in Istanbul, although I’m not 100 % sure.

]]> By: taujb http://melissamaples.com/like-apples-and-oranges/comment-page-1/#comment-340579 taujb Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:52:00 +0000 http://melissamaples.com/2007/07/03/like-apples-and-oranges/#comment-340579 I think I've seen imported lime sold in Metro Grossmarkets in Istanbul, although I'm not 100 % sure. I think I’ve seen imported lime sold in Metro Grossmarkets in Istanbul, although I’m not 100 % sure.

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