Brussels sprouts - food, or foul?

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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...

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On the basis that there are lots of things I didn't like when I was younger that I like now, I tried sprouts again recently. They were roasted in a portion of roast vegetables that also included potatoes, carrots, broccoli, peppers and garlic. Everything else was lovely. The sprouts were just unbelievably vile. I *could* eat them, but got no pleasure from doing so.

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So the verdict, fromm all 4 family members present is, "No."
I steamed small fresh sprouts until just cooked, and everyone agreed they were quite nicely cooked, but they still tasted bitter (though not as sulphorously horrible as some I've had).
Brussels Sprouts: Nul Points.