Comment on Eating your veggies

Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can explain. My parents just made bland, steamed vegetables. Idiots never learned to season and make vegetables tasty. Like it’s so easy.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Steamed vegetables are great. You’re just supposed to do more than steaming it. And not to oversteam.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Evolution is a hell of a natural force.

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• BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Relevant Mr lovenstein

  For me personally growing up, everyone just steamed them into a wet tasteless mush. This is not the way.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Especially Brussels sprouts

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  • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Part of it, too, is selective breeding (aka genetic modification, but that’s a dirty word).

    www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Children are generally adverse to bitter tasting things. Hunter gatherer poison defense. Some folks are just more acutely sensitive to it.

  Usually it’s brassicas that cause that yuck reaction. Cabbage, broccoli, cale.

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  • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My wife insists that broccoli is disgusting.

    I like it. It’s not like super flavorful or anything, but I’ll roast and salt a little broccoli for something to add to my fettuccine. She always passes and refuses to even try it.

    More for me.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Broccoli is, like, one of the least disgusting vegetables.

      Anything that tastes vaguely like soap, however, ruins a whole dish for me.

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      • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Damn cilantro gene…

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I recently discovered adding red pepper flakes to broccoli and holy shit it is delicious.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s weird for me then because I loved vegetables as a kid but I still hate bitter things. I don’t enjoy beer or coffee. Can’t get enough broccoli or asparagus though.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Beer and coffee you can aquire pretty easily if you want to, because of the drugs. I’m fat enough without beer though, so it’s still nasty to me. I speak with such confidence because I aquired a taste for campari which is about as bitter as Satan’s asshole. I hated it at first, just putting it on my tongue was an exercise in torture. Now I like it.

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• Akareth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FYI, people who do not eat any fruit or vegetables (on the carnivore diet) do not get scurvy.

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  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That was a joke, friend

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• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most people are already hitting their nutrients, which reduces vegetables down to empty mass. They have very little caloric value, so eating them is a waste of time and of stomach capacity. And the human body knows this fact, so it reacts to the taste of vegetables the same way it reacts to sawdust.

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  • solarbabies@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I see you got your food science degree from Trump University.

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