On Wednesday, cook and food writer Nigel Slater took to Twitter to share his latest midweek meal recipe for a "luscious, aromatic dinner".
The piece instructed on how to whip up aubergines, feta, chickpeas, ras el hanout and it looked pretty tasty. So tasty, that even a woman who claimed to be allergic to aubergines wanted to give it a go.
The woman, named Susan, replied to Nigel's post saying that she wanted to make it and asking if there was anything she could substitute the aubergine for.
She wrote: "Looks delicious, if only I wasn't allergic to aubergine, I would have a go at this. Any substitute suggestions please?" Susan's seemingly innocent question prompted a rather blunt reply from Nigel which has left fellow Twitter users
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