Cool, so where do you know Stacy from?
Her Spaghetti Nights are better than Linda’s Taco Tuesday’s
Is the brocoli we eat today the same as they were eating when this cliché came about?
Broccoli was one of the few vegetables I liked as a child. It’s tasted the same for the last 30+ years as far as I can tell.
Good point. We’ve cultivated several vegetables to become less bitter over the decades and children are more sensitive to bitter taste than adults.
Me as a kid sucking on grapefruit rind for the bitterness
No. We roast fresh veggies and add salt and pepper today. Everyone steamed plain frozen vegetables with freezer burn back then.
I still liked that tbh but I didn’t know any better.
Your parents probably roasted vegetables (which is delicious) rather than steaming everything (which is pretty gross). If you had baby boomer parents then everything was steamed, and no salt, pepper, or other flavorings were ever used. There’s also a pretty good chance that it came out of a frozen bag, or a can. It’s amazing that an entire generation of parents didn’t know anything about cooking flavorful food. I mean, I’m sure some of them knew how, but not a single one that I knew.
Fuck you unseasoned steamed broccoli is delicious. Not from frozen though, its gotta be fresh.
I grew up kinda poor and so we ate more vegetables than anything else because my grandpa grew them. Still love broccoli (and potatoes and carrots) because grandma was a good cook. Thanks to my grandparents for making sure I always had something to eat!
I’ve heard of someone here on Lemmy for whom broccoli genuinely tastes vile. So, they don’t just dislike the taste that I presume the majority experience, but it actually smells like fecal matter to them.
It’s SpaceNoodle and they have joined the chat.
Ah, neat. 🙃
My mother worried (still worries?) about how she wasn’t a good cook but she was fine. She knew how to steam veggies instead of boiling, she knew what a spice was. I have no memory of hating her food. Also broccoli and asparagus and (the new) brussel sprouts are delicious.
