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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.

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, I think people just learned how to cook them properly

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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.

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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.

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- 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?
  
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  - 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.
    
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