Brussels sprouts - food, or foul?

[baratron]

Something cool I discovered today: Waitrose have walking stick holders on their shopping trolleys! How awesome is that? I'm used to having to balance my stick over the handle and hoping it doesn't fall off as I go round the shop (because I really don't want the end that touches the ground lying in the trolley alongside my food). I expect they also work for umbrellas - some shapes of umbrella, anyway.

Richard and I had an "argument" last night about the number of Brussels sprouts that a person would consume at Christmas, given all the other vegetables we are preparing. I thought that 4-6 would be the right sort of number, my mum thought it would be more like 6-8. Richard won by pointing out that the number that a "normal" person would consume is zero.

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If I was feeling more brain-full I could extend the questions to ask about other cabbagey things (I personally love white cabbage in raw or cooked form, and red cabbage raw, but don't care for cooked red cabbage or any kind of green cabbage), but that would take Effort which I should probably be spending on tidying up the house before our visitors tomorrow. We have decided not to make it TIDY (because that is impossible with the time available), but there needs to be enough chair and table space for everyone, and currently all conceivable surfaces are covered with books, tv and video game controllers, plushie toys, cameras, bits of circuit board, screwdrivers...

Comments

[ludy]

they are on if the few leafy things i actually like the taste off (others are savoy cabbage and red cabbage (but only when it's cooked the right way cooked). But being leaves i can only eat small amounts of them without having digestive woes - so i only bother with really nicely cooked ones

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't you have ticked the "I like sprouts, but they don't like me! (They give me digestive woes)." option then? ;)

I was sure that someone would get IBS from sprouts, they're so sulphurous. And even completely healthy people get wind from them. Mmm, sprout fart smell :D

[ludy]

no i would only have ticked that if i couldn't eat any.
They don't upset my ibs more than any other leafy stuff