A horrible vegetable
What is the point of Brussel sprouts?
Why are we subjected to pro sprout propaganda every year
One of the many signs that Christmas is approaching here in the UK is the never-ending attempts by people with an agenda trying to convince normal folk that Brussel sprouts are good to eat.
A major supermarket once produced a “Child friendly” sprout. They claimed to have eliminated the bitter taste of the sprout. At a premium price, of course.
A columnist in a national newspaper wrote a recipe for making her sprouts more palatable.
She recommended cutting them in half and frying them to release the sugar in them or steaming them rather than the traditional method of boiling them to a pulp.
If supermarkets and columnists have to go to these lengths to make a product edible, it means one thing.
The product is inedible.
But the pro sprouters remain in denial.
Every year as Christmas approaches, they convince themselves, and try to convince the rest of us, that sprouts are tasty. They are not!
Sprouts were developed by the devil purely to torture young children, with the aim to put them off of healthy green vegetables for life.
I say out the sprout.
And in case you are wondering, yes, I have tried to eat the miserable things. In a deal with my wife, who favours the evil vegetable, that I would return to my childhood culinary terror, if she would try jellied eels for the first time.
(Jellied eels, now there’s a dish made in heaven.)
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