how_do_you_like_your_roses flowerock ck I ate rose petals as a child from the bushes outside. I felt special and smart doing this because I had never seen anyone else eat them and they were so delicious. I would offer them to my friends and they'd usually try it and spit it out, saying it "tasted like a plant" and things like that. I tried other flowers and wore dandelion necklaces. I didn't know then that I was named after a flower. Later I was given a wonderful treat. A delicate pastry with layers of rose petal preserves or something like it. This was a job interview at a middle eastern restaurant. They told me that to work there I would have to understand and follow the "rules" of the place, I would not speak to the men unless spoken to and would not look them in the eyes. I did not accept the job. Recently I tried rose petal preserves. and rose-tulsi tea. take_time_to_eat_the_roses 140209 ... epitome of incomprehensibility You make me crave rose-flavoured Turkish delight - the flavour maybe not from the petals but the rosehips, those bulbous things at the blossom's base. I tried to take some home from the wild rose bushes at Pine_Beach_Park last September, thinking I could make them into herbal tea, but I left them at the bottom of my shopping bag and they grew wrinkled before I remembered them. Turkish delights are powdered gummy squares, not as sickeningly sweet as American-type candies but no doubt bad for the teeth. When I heard the first Narnia book read to me at age six, I'd imagined Turkish delight as French toast. Parallel_thinking: nationality plus noun? 140213 ... n o m mm i like rose flavoured turkish delight. 140213 ... n o m rosewater is nice, and rose perfume 140214 ... no reason spring-coloured. pink, yellow, white. 140214 ... flowerock yum. rose hips... we got some from the co-op, tried to eat one, it was like trying to eat glass... ouch. I guess they need to be soaked into tea or something. 140214 ... flowerock I want to find some organic roses to dip into cocoa powder mixed into coconut oil and let them harden... real chocolate roses! some day ^.^ with cayenne sprinkled on... maybe a whole assortment like a box of chocolates, but a bouquet 140214 what's it to you? who go blather from