301397 Wed Jan 25 11:59:18 -0800 2006 8 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1680410 I found a salad recipe that calls for "teenage greens" and says to use the "long" ones...I'm not familiar with this term/description... Anyone know what they are?? thanks Wed Jan 25 11:59:18 -0800 2006 0 bigface 1 1680411 They are greens (lettuces, mesculn, etc), sized between their "baby" state and the fully developed state. The thing of it is, the expression originated as a joke, making fun of establishments that felt the need to rename or rebrand common items, yet these same places now use the term. Go figure. Wed Jan 25 12:21:09 -0800 2006 1680410 0 Two Forks 1 1680416 Here is a link to an article from Sunset magazine on teenage greens. Link: http://www.sunset.com/sunset/garden/article/0,20633,1103853,00.html Wed Jan 25 12:57:57 -0800 2006 1680410 0 Junie D 1 1680427 Marketing BS for greens to long or old to be called baby but can't be called "greens". I'd save the extra $2 a pound and buy the "adult" greens and cut them up. Wed Jan 25 15:23:12 -0800 2006 1680410 0 Jonathan Saw 2 1680456 I'm not surprised by marketing BS in creating such a product, but there may be a less cynical possibility. The word "teenage" used to mean brushwood (more specifically "brushwood used for fences and hedges") before it took on its recent meaning in the early 20th century. If I hadn't read it last night in the book I've been reading, I'd have called total BS on teenage greens, but may make sense with preference for the "long ones". Thu Jan 26 00:55:58 -0800 2006 1680427 0 Catherine 1 1680491 Sunset magazine published a piece about the ease of growing greens in garden pots. A chef was quoted that he preferred "teenage greens" to the baby greens because they have more flavor. He went on to explain that "teenage greens" are somewhere between baby greens and the full-grown size. I don't believe this was a nefarious marketing scheme by the agri-giants, it was simply a quote from someone trying to make a point. Thu Jan 26 13:10:40 -0800 2006 1680410 0 Sherri 2 1680492 I don't thnk anyone said it was the "agri-giants" who came up with the term, nor was it the chef who Sunset quoted. As I alluded to earlier, the term was created several years ago, as a dig to people like that very chef, who feel the need to relabel commonly referred to items. It was a creation, as I understand it, of "The Grocery" in NY, as a joke, which just to prove the point was actually adopted as a term by many. Thu Jan 26 13:37:07 -0800 2006 1680491 0 Two Forks 3 1680524 Sunset magazine, October 2005, "At Parcel 104 a restaurant in Santa Clara California, excutive chef Bart Hosmer's baby lettuces have grown up--just a little. At 4 inches long, these "teenaged lettuces" as he calls them, are more mature than baby greens...." I was referring to this article. Thu Jan 26 20:29:42 -0800 2006 1680492 0 Sherri 3 4577408 The Grocery did indeed carry a dish on their menu several years ago named "teenage greens" but they were called such by the farmer that sold it to them, Guy Jones. I think the term has less to do with marketing and more to do with defining the product as distinctively different than another. Guy Jones is a unique farmer who marches to his own beat and I think this term is just an idiosyncrasy. I think if you look around there are ambitious, pioneering farmers doing all sorts of things to separate themselves in the public mind's eye from the industrial food system that's out there. Look at Joel Salatin in Virginia and his "Salad Bar Beef", "Pigerator Pork" and "Pastured Broiler's". Tue Apr 07 22:24:48 -0700 2009 1680492 280991 pnutthemovie