sprouts. good or bad?

i love the wee green buggers. my 'arris doesn't though and the wind is terrible.

when i was little i used to smotherm them in daddies sauce.

sprouts = green dirt...

YMMV

didnt used to like em when i was young but i love them now.

This is going to cause a mass debate over the validity of such filth within modern society's culture so moving...

They are horrid and I don't know why anyone would want to eat those evil miniture cabbages. And why do people have to spoil a perfectly good Christmas dinner by putting those on the same plate? Yuk!

And remember, they should be banned because they help to produce obnoxious gasses from the rear end of ignorant people who have no consideration for anyone else !

I like them, only when they are fairly squishy

Sprouts are absolute filth. Mini cabbages with the most disgusting smell and the most foul taste.

I can safely say a sprout has never passed my lips. The smell alone is enough to gag a maggot.

I've never touched them. I object to having to be in the same room as them to the extent of somehow always managing to make sure they never reach the table at Christmas.

I fooken love 'em, I literally can't eat enough of them.

No wonder your full of so much hot air ;-)

food of the fecking devil

Bad. Carrots rule.

The take on a whole knew character when they are curried. Gorgeous!

Sprouts are disgusting and should be banned.

I agree!

evil demonic little buggers

Aaah, the wily and adaptive sprout. A wonderful veg, with a dark side.

How many Sprouts have been major characters in Works of fiction? Not enough. Only Barry the Phnargian Time Sprout*, who lives inside the head of Elvis Presley, in Robert Rankins' Armageddon Trilogy.

If you put a sprout on the floor you can confuse pets when you whisk it away and replace with a full size cabbage.

Sprouts are tops. Especially when lightly steamed and dipped in melted butter.

*via the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic anti-matter.

/wbps takes his pills. :)

Newvrovski spouted:
The take on a whole knew character when they are curried. Gorgeous!

I adore sprouts - can't get enough of them with a sunday roast soaked with loads of gravy - yum - but curried sprouts?? The thought is just...Urrggggh!!

Boiled sprouts = shite food combined with foul smelling shit hole the next day

Roasted sprouts (after par boiling) = nice food with foul smelling shit hole the next day

You heats your oven and you takes your choice.

SWEDE IS THE REAL DEVILS SPUNK.

Not my fave but I can eat them with about a pint of gravy on each one. A friend of mine's wife eats them by the plate load, her name ---------------------- Gail, say no more.

Bobotheclavnova spouted:
A friend of mine's wife eats them by the plate load, her name ---------------------- Gail, say no more.

:haha::haha:

I like them sliced and then stir fried. They taste quite nutty then; much better than boiled to death or frozen then boiled. I can't understand why people have them for christmas lunch if they don't like them.

They are bloody lovely.

Mary Poppins had the right word for them - supercalifragilist. . . whatever.

Sprouts, just like Marmite, you either love it or hate it.

I never could understand how a person could like vegetables or even call them delicious. Vegetables also have to be one of the most over rated health boosters as well. If you take maybe one or two multi-vitamins a day, you can have the nutritional value of those disgusting ground growers without the misfortune of tasting them. Vegetables is something that is necessary to your health if you don't take a mult-vitamin, or w/e but liking them over say pizza, ice cream, and candy is ludacris. If someone ever tells you they like vegetables over say ice cream, you should run from them as fast as you can, because either they are lying or they are insane and it is a good idea not to associate with them.

When I was young I Hated sprouts/parsnips/turnip/cabbage

But now I can't get enough of them

(only cos they make me fart like hell)

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I never could understand how a person could like vegetables or even call them delicious. Vegetables also have to be one of the most over rated health boosters as well. If you take maybe one or two multi-vitamins a day, you can have the nutritional value of those disgusting ground growers without the misfortune of tasting them. Vegetables is something that is necessary to your health if you don't take a mult-vitamin, or w/e but liking them over say pizza, ice cream, and candy is ludacris. If someone ever tells you they like vegetables over say ice cream, you should run from them as fast as you can, because either they are lying or they are insane and it is a good idea not to associate with them.

I have never heard so much shite in my life.

Vitamin supplements are the great snake-oil of the twentieth century. They are often derived from waste products of chemical and refining processes (cf: zinc, flouride and most trace metals) and what you are not told is that without the secondary constituents occur naturally with the vitamins in their natural form, many supplemetns are useless at best and dangerous at worst.

Fresh vegetables, properly cooked, are delicious (stir-fry? Vegetable bake? Cauliflower cheese? Mushroom risotto? Mashed spuds? Steamed artichoke? Steamed asparagus kwith lemon butter?) and to say otherwise is to sound like an Iceland-feeding pikey.

And sprouts are ace. The main reason that a lot of peiople don't like them is that, like cabbage, they have never tasted them properly cooked.

If you have one no-meat day a week it will clean you out and improve your skin (I say this as a bloke - easier to shave without half your face coming away).

You can't just plonkl sprouts in the middle of your plate - they are great steamed and eaten with other strong-flavoured foods,. If tyou boil them and chuck them in with a normal meal they will dominate it, and a meal spoiled by sprouts is the sort of thing that gives English cooking a bad name.

(at this point, Manta leaps in with a ringing defence of English cooking, claiming that 86 million people in London every year eat sprouts every day and that only Europhiles and atheists condemn this traditional dish from Brusselshire)

Wow you are a bloat. First of all, I was not attacking all vegetbales this is sprouts in particular. Second of all, if vitamins, not like bs herbs and st. johns, warts are useless what's the point of eating fruits and vegetables in the first place. Lastly, what I'm saying is that people who say they like bland or disgusting tasting vegetables over naturally better tasting foods like pizza, or ice cream are weird. If you are going to breakdown what I say at least rant about the right stuff.

:D

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Wow you are a bloat. First of all, I was not attacking all vegetbales this is sprouts in particular. Second of all, if vitamins, not like bs herbs and st. johns, warts are useless what's the point of eating fruits and vegetables in the first place. Lastly, what I'm saying is that people who say they like bland or disgusting tasting vegetables over naturally better tasting foods like pizza, or ice cream are weird. If you are going to breakdown what I say at least rant about the right stuff.

:D

Naturally better tasting foods like pizza? Naturally? Have you ever looked at list of ingrediants for this sort of thing? Naturally if it is freshly made, maybe, but I daresay you are talking about frozen supermarket items.

No way are veggies bland. Fresh, well cooked veg is a taste explosion, not a taste implosion like most of the stuff foisted off on us by the food industry.

And I LOVE ice cream. But all things in moderation.

Damn right, steamed veg and fish just can't be beat - but a freshly shot pizza, still quivering and warm with grass-stains on it and dust on its hooves, is a taste sensation that shouldn't be had too often.

Pizza quattrus formaggius romanus: closely related to the Haggis offallus maximus. Once plentiful, but now only found in isolated and mountainous areas of the highlands. Bred in captivity for the Hogmanay Season.

Sprouts are great. They give you farts that would make a skunk gag. Nothing more pleasurable than letting one go that you know is gonna really stink.

Vegetables are great in combination with other foods such as olive oil, meat and sauces. I don't like eating veg on it's own anymore than I like eating meat on it's own.

In fact vitamins do work. I take a multi vitamin and mineral tablet everyday and realised I wasn't feeling great. I stopped for a week and felt even worse. I felt better as soon as I started again. It depends on which brand of vitamins you use. I prefer Higher Nature, Quest and Solgar. I've heard that vitamins and minerals get absorbed better when they're in liquid form. Makes sense as I've found herbal tinctures work better than herbal tablets as I've found with echinacea. I'm not sure if the gelatine used in capsule covers actually breaks down in the digestive system properly releasing the nutrients inside,

In fact vitamins do work. I take a multi vitamin and mineral tablet everyday and realised I wasn't feeling great. I stopped for a week and felt even worse. I felt better as soon as I started again

Can you spell 'placebo effect'?

Cocaine and heroin make you feel great while you're doing it but I don't see anyone recommending a daily shot of skag.

btw: St. John's Wort and Echinacea aren't vitamin or trace mineral supplements. They're a herbal extracts, an organic compound rather than an isolated active ingredient.

Now I understand when i here how people hate our food. Vegetables are delicious. Sure if you are forced fed something long enough you can confuse yourself into thinking anything is delicious. I'm sure a minority of people actually think or have convinced themsevles that vegetables can be delicious on their own. This is the target audience I've been trying to attack the whole time. Not someone who eats them with fish, meat, or sprinkles them in food. They don't count in my opinion. To many x factors for these people. Who I am talking to is people who eat just vegetables for every meal. Not people who do it for religious or various other ethical beliefs, or people who do it ocassionly for a diet or w/e but all the time for taste. Do you understand what I'm saying now? I mean is there a chemical imbalance here or is it just evolution dragging us down. I mean souly vegetable diet is not only unhealthy but unecological.

You're a wanker spouted:
Do you understand what I'm saying now?

No...

You're a wanker spouted:
I mean souly vegetable diet is not only unhealthy but unecological.

... but I do agree with this.

I saw a programme on tele some years ago that demonstrated that there is a chemical compound in sprouts that some people cannot taste while others find it disgusting and that accounts for the two camps.

The difference between brussel sprouts and bogies?

You can't get kids to eat brussel sprouts!