Broccoli is evil.

Never understood why people hate it. I mean it tastes like... like a vegetable? Nothing especially bad.
Maybe because it was forced to people in their childhood?

Broccoli is fantastic. You can put it into so many different recipes, and it absorbs the flavor of whatever sauce you put it in well, while having a texture between a crisp snap or a tender softness, depending on how you cook it, so it's a vegetable you can use in a wide range of recipes without ever getting tired of it. I probably eat it four or five times a week.

Also, for as much as she's portrayed as a child, here, I know plenty of adults who won't eat things they don't like.... I have to basically grate onions or throw them in a blender to rend them to paste to get my mother to eat any, and my father will refuse to eat anything with more spice than a pinch of black pepper. Then there are diabetics, and my nephew basically refuses anything that isn't bread or mac 'n cheese. Between friends or family members, if I am cooking for more than three people, it basically requires making two separate meals.

NWSiaCB said:
I know plenty of adults who won't eat things they don't like

My father, when he served in the Air Force, spent a year in Okinawa and later a year in Thailand. To this day, he will not eat rice.

I still don't like vegetables myself, I feel your pain, Langley.
(Now if only I could understand what they were all saying in-game...)

Tapper said:

My father, when he served in the Air Force, spent a year in Okinawa and later a year in Thailand. To this day, he will not eat rice.

Read a book when young about Brit POWs returning from the infamous Jap camps after WWII; the people in Southampton, or wherever they disembarked, had proper meals for them --- remember most were skeletal thin --- including rice pudding.

It did not go over well.

Allaire said:

Never understood why people hate it. I mean it tastes like... like a vegetable? Nothing especially bad.
Maybe because it was forced to people in their childhood?

Genetics. It actually has a very different, much more bitter taste for many people.
https://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/new-gene-variant-identified-makes-vegetables-taste-bitter

Personally I'd rather go hungry for a day than have that taste of broccoli in my mouth. It's almost sickening.

NWSiaCB said:

Broccoli is fantastic. You can put it into so many different recipes, and it absorbs the flavor of whatever sauce you put it in well, while having a texture between a crisp snap or a tender softness, depending on how you cook it, so it's a vegetable you can use in a wide range of recipes without ever getting tired of it. I probably eat it four or five times a week.

Also, for as much as she's portrayed as a child, here, I know plenty of adults who won't eat things they don't like.... I have to basically grate onions or throw them in a blender to rend them to paste to get my mother to eat any, and my father will refuse to eat anything with more spice than a pinch of black pepper. Then there are diabetics, and my nephew basically refuses anything that isn't bread or mac 'n cheese. Between friends or family members, if I am cooking for more than three people, it basically requires making two separate meals.

I like broccoli, but it tastes (and smells) absolutely vile when overcooked. Not all mothers can cook well, so I suspect a lot of people picked up a dislike for this vegetable when it was forced on them when they were young, similar to green peppers and liver (both of which also have terrible texture, taste and smell when overcooked).

Mithiwithi said:

Broccoli is evil.

Actual slander.