Possible Clues:

• Still green, or still red
• Like eggs in eggnog
• There's nothing cooking in the way of fighting back there
• Like the seafood in sushi
• Headed for the refinery
• Before adjustments, as in statistics
• Fresh, as recruits
• Of computer data, not yet checked or sorted
• Inexperienced when hostilities may be taken up
• Like veggies on a veggie platter