I don't like broccoli

[Tab]

and it don't like me.
 

 

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

1. It is the only thing that poppy bush & I ever

agreed on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I'll sick the conure on you

The Nanday LOVES the stuff... beak scrubber, yummy food...

[Warpy]

3. The worst thing in the world is uncooked, bitter broccoli

on a crudite platter surrounding a dip. It's vile. It's gag inducing. If you're guilty of doing it, don't do it any more. Steam it until it turns a bright green but still retains its crunch, shock it in cold water to stop the cooking, and then serve it. Your guests will thank you.

Proper cooking tames broccoli very nicely. It turns into a buttery smooth, fragrant veggie that plays along nicely with a host of other foods. If you're throwing the stems away, don't do that any more, either. Peel them and slice them 1/4" thick and cook them with the tops. The Chinese call them "broccoli clouds" and I think it's the best part of the plant.

I'll bet you'd like broccoli the way I cook it. However, I'd offer you a variety of other stuff if you didn't.

[pengillian101]

4. You are so right.

Run raw broccoli under hot water and notice the bugs - ugh.

However, I loved cooked!

[kestrel91316]

10. I don't HATE raw broccoli, it's just that I so LOVE it steamed just right.

[japple]

5. My best friend said that when she got married, her husband hated

the stuff too, so she started stir-frying or lightly steaming it and serving it with sweet/sour sauce. He eventually grew to love it and they gave up on the sweet and sour sauce.

[Warpy]

6. My ex thought he hated a lot of stuff, too. So did I.

However, I started to explore them cooked fresh and cooked lightly. We both realized what we hated all those years was mushy, overcooked crap from a can or overcooked to look like it was from a can, typical of the 50s.

However, we both decided Brussels sprouts should stay off the menu.

[eleny]

8. I never saw broccoli in a can

[Warpy]

9. I did. It was gruesome

I think the main thing Birdseye must've developed freezing for is broccoli.

[kestrel91316]

12. That sounds even worse than canned asparagus.

[kestrel91316]

11. I LOVE brussels sprouts. I didn't care for the frozen, mushy overcooked

ones my mom fixed as a kid, so I pretty much went 25 years without eating them. When I rediscovered them, cooked properly, I could have kicked myself for missing out all those years.

[Warpy]

13. I tried them every way I could, including chopped

which kind of defeated their purpose as mini cabbages, and still never found a way that was good enough to forgo a veggie we both did like.

We ate plenty of fart foods (cruciferous family) because they were so easy to grow in New England.

Maybe it's genetic. It's the one veggie my mother never inflicted on me.

My dad's favorite war story was of his years in the UK before the US got in. Between the Depression and war rationing, everybody was eating Brussels sprouts 3 times a day. A German pilot went off course and instead of bombing a town, bombed a field of sprouts. The papers wanted to know his name, said he should get the Victoria Cross for such a great service to the realm!

That story probably has a lot to do with why I never had to stare down a plate of cold Brussels sprouts until the wee hours of the morning.

[Tesha]

7. and parsnip is kind of yucky too