Maybe, but brussel sprouts still taste like shit.
Broccoli is and always has been really good, if cooked correctly.
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pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 day agoIt’s because traditionally bitter vegetables have been selectively bred to taste better. The brussel sprouts and broccoli your parents had were very different than what we have today.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Brussels sprouts in Sambar is GOAT tier
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
Honestly I'm still pretty skeptical of this factoid. The Brussel sprouts now taste pretty similar to the ones I had in the 80s and 90s when cooked the same way. The whole "Brussel sprouts taste new" feels like some industry marketing to me.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Yeah, I think people just learned how to cook them properly
frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If something tastes slightly different every few times you have it you’re probably not going to notice a difference over 30-40 years.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 day ago
Your memory of what something tasted like 30 years ago probably isn’t super accurate. It’s a fact that they’ve been selectively bred over the last few decades to taste better.
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
I mean wouldn't that also apply to everyone who thinks they taste better? And why would they have only started trying to make them taste good recently?
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 day ago
If you’ve been eating broccoli throughout the whole selective breeding process, then the flavor change would have been subtle enough that you don’t realize there’s been a change at all. If you ate them side by side, the difference would be noticeable.
It’s not too different from Jim adding nickels to Dwight’s phone, then suddenly removing them.