I have now enquired, from Mrs S#2, what culinary delights she had planned to titillate my jaded palate with this evening.
She has an aubergine and "plans" to add it to some potatoes, onions, tomatoes and cheese.
Next to the wasp and tofu an aubergine has to be about the most useless thing in the entire universe.
She buys them "Because they are so beautiful"
I throw them away because there is nothing one can usefully do with them and they sit in the fridge looking ..... purple.
We do not seem to be speaking at the moment.