broccoli is like anal sex… if you’re forced to have it as a kid, you’re not gonna like it as an adult
Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs
Submitted 4 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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bdot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is awful lolol
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 months ago
This is a relatable comparison
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I guess I should be happy I like broccoli. Here I always thought people just didn’t care for the smell, like brussel sprouts and anal apparently
PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Emerald@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Holy shit
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
This checks out but dude you need Charter.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The “kids don’t like broccoli” has a scientific reason. Kids have a lot more receptors for aromas tasting bitter (10 to 15k different chemical compounds taste bitter to them) which reduce to 5k or less when growing up. So some types of food that adults can eat without problems because they lack the receptors have bitter and vile flavours for kids.
Drint@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Plant breeders have also been busy reducing bitterness/tannins in various vegetables like brussel sprouts and canola oil, so things are in fact less bitter than 30 years ago.
Liz@midwest.social 4 months ago
Any word on if this impacts nutrition?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Brussels Sprouts are another one… I don’t think I had properly cooked Brussels sprouts until I was in my mid-20s, and they’ve become one of my favorite vegetables. They’re so fucking good dude.
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Doesn’t help a lot of people used to just boil broccoli without seasoning. Doesn’t do the flavor any favors.
Crismus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My stepmother was that way so I couldn’t stand broccoli growing up. Most vegetables were blan and tasteless without salt and boiled.
I rarely buy them now because I can’t physically handle cooking every day now. So most vegetables go bad in the fridge.
Dhs92@programming.dev 4 months ago
That’s interesting. Do you have any sources on this phenomenon?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This one, for example: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4654709/
Or this one: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22197939/
Originally, I had read a cluster of those articles some years ago, but scientific articles like to hide behind paywalls nowadays.
And at old age, it ends like this: www.npr.org/…/why-taste-buds-dull-as-we-age
grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
his source is that he made it the fuck up!
~(MGR:R joke)~
menemen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I always assumed this is also why adults love disgusting cheese (I do to a degree as well nowadays). We just our sense of taste and call it refined taste.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The “losing taste” is actually a beneficial thing. Most things that kids don’t like are either risky (e.g. coffee) or difficult to digest (all kinds of cabbage), so it is good that kids don’t like them. For adults being able to expand acceess to available foods helps feeding the horde in difficult times.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Vespair@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Broccoli is so good it makes me horny too. I fucking love broccoli.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Fun fact: Brocollis is the ‘veg kids don’t like’ in Amercia mostly. Pixar even edited scenes in ‘Inside Out’ where a dad feeds his daughter broccoli, turing it into bell peppers for the asian market:
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans we (brother and I) were always fine with as kids. It was the asparagus and spinach I never cared for as a kid. Turned out it wanst the spinach’s fault, my mother would just buy bags of frozen spinach, put it in a microwave safe container and turn it on. So if tasted bad. As I learned to cook I started to like it as I actually used it in other ways. Asparagus though… I rarely give a chance, and usually if I do I’m trying it in bacon freeze which defeats the purpose of eating a vegetable I feel.
froh42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Both my kids favorite veggie was broccoli when they were small. I’d prepare it the way you’d get it in an Italian restaurant - small parts of it just bleached for a short time, so it stays firm, served with nice olive oil and salt. (And a bit of lemon, if I have it on hand)
Broccoli (like so many veggies) tastes awful when overcooked into a soft and mushy consistency (and then it also changes its taste in a bad way).
Here in Germany grandmas typically are amazing cooks, with the sole exception when they cooked veggies. That generation loved their vegs really soft and overcooked.
dan@upvote.au 4 months ago
This shows some really nice attention to detail.
cm0002@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fun Fact, if broccoli kinda tastes like soap to you, congratulations! You have a gene variation that makes certain bitter flavors taste like soap, it’s stronger in childhood (which is potentially why “Kids hate broccoli” trope is a thing) and tends to fade into adulthood, but not always.
There are also studies being done to figure out specifically which compounds in broccoli make it taste like that to cultivate it out to encourage more broccoli consumption
Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Glad to see some scientific stuff under a “I would fuck his mom for serving broccoli” content.
kungen@feddit.nu 4 months ago
Are you saying that I might stop hating coriander when I retire? But I really like broccoli, so maybe it’s a different kind of soap gene…
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I hate having this gene variant, so many things taste bad. People judge you, it’s hard to order at restaurants, etc.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Broccoli tossed in olive oil, cooked in an air fryer until crispy and then sprinkled with course salt. Delicious 👌🏼
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
You forgot garlic. Copious amounts of garlic at every step.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So going to try that!
My recent go to ( not broccoli though) is toss some fresh spinach in a pan with oil and hit it with lemon pepper seasoning and a little lemon juice.
Takes like 5 including prep if you don’t mind the stalks.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Do people not like spinach stalks? It’s like my favorite part… adds a tiny bit of crunch/texture.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Your recipe sounds really good as well. I’ll definitely give it a try
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I thought broccoli only got softer when cooked. Does this work if you don’t have an air fryer and you fry it in a pan?
No I’m wondering what would it would taste like to marinade broccoli in butter and garlic then took them out and put them in a dehydrator to make them into chips
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just cut into bite size pieces, toss it in oil, salt and pepper it, put it on a baking sheet and roast at 425 for around 20 minutes. Don’t fry it in a pan. It will be delicious
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Air fryers are just convection ovens. Its baking it.
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
Broccoli and cheese is awesome. Other preparations like steamed are not as delicious, but ymmv.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Steamed broccoli + garlic salt, just done overdo the brocc until it’s mushy
ettyblatant@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Steamed broccoli with a little soy sauce & Sriracha is one of my absolute favorite snacks. Cauliflower, too. I’m gonna go make some.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Steamed is my default method of cooking broccoli.
I cut the stalk up for soup and pasta. Then I lightly steam the florets and I like it.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
In almost all cases, I frankly detest steamed vegetables. Probably due to my grandmother steaming the absolute piss out of ANY vegetable when we visited. My mother didn’t overcook them nearly as bad, but to this day I just don’t enjoy the flavor of any vegetable steamed nearly as much as I do roasted in the oven. High heat + short time + delicious, crisp, lightly charred goodness
everett@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Many years ago my kids pediatrician recommended feeding the kids kale smoothies. I didn’t have any Kale at home so I cooked bunch of broccoli to mush and mixed it with bananas. Those kids eat half a pound of broccoli for breakfast just about every day now. They also eat it raw or crunchy cooked. Definitely the best medical advice I’ve ever gotten and the kids are used to a very simple and quick to make breakfast that keeps them full for hours.
Tldr: Kids constantly surprise me and sometimes they like vegetables.
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
In what way is „kale smoothies“ a medical advice and why would you designate it as the best, if you didn’t even follow it and used different vegetables?
This comment is so over the top weird, I feel like I missed the joke here.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s medical advice because it came from a doctor in a professional setting when we were discussing how to get more iron in their diets since we don’t eat many fortified foods. Kale and broccoli are close enough nutritionally to be swapped if one is just looking for the vitamins and minerals. Lastly, It the longest I’ve ever continuously followed a recommendation and it has made my life way easier. That makes it the best advice I’ve gotten.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It reads like a 1 star recipe review
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 months ago
well that escalated quickly
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
You never wanted to fuck your friend’s mom?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean… yeah. But you got thirty and you can have all the milfs you want. It’s free moms.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Well, german but Broccoli and cauliflower with breadcrumbs and butter. Grandma always made this.
trslim@pawb.social 4 months ago
Broccoli rules, one of my favorite veggies, along with carrots and fresh green beans.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Throw asparagus in there and I’m in.
socsa@piefed.social 4 months ago
Broccoli is like green tofu. It tastes like whatever you cook it in. There is perhaps no other food which has more surface area for holding sauce or seasoning.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cauliflower
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yeah I was going to say this. Cauliflower is like the “plain” version of broccoli lol
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Mandelbrotcolli
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Broccoli in Thai curry is the way! So good!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
To be fair, everything is good in Thai curry.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
vegetables in general and tasting bad is moreso lack of preparation/cooking rather than the actual thing itself most of the time. Brusselsprouts is the polarizing one where its seen the most.
hatrick@feddit.org 4 months ago
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
I hated broccoli as a kid and I still hate it as an adult.
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My theory on this is that some of the hate for a lot of vegetables comes from either eating canned ones or poorly cooked ones. My girlfriend didn’t know she liked green beans until she started living with my family and my father made her some. My dad sautéed the in butter with garlic, and she only had ever had those extremely mushy canned ones and had concluded on that basis she hated green beans.
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same for meatloaf
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Honestly, I would be suspicious of any kid who doesn’t like eating miniature trees.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nice to read about a person that so appreciated the kindness of another that they were willing to extend a kindness to them
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you are a super taster, broccoli taste like grass smells. At least for me and my daughter. Its so bitter that I threw up one time when I was a kid being forced to eat it. So lets accept that to someone with a lesser/different sense of taste/smell its okay. To those of us who can smell when someone has been in their house five hours after they left it taste completely different. So no thanks I don’t want to eat grass.
edg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I too choose this guy’s mom.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
There are just a ton of foods that input in my mouth that immediately make me feel like I’m going to vomit. I really hate it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Btw, Broccoli is a superfood.
whome@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
It’s the only cooked vegetable my kids like.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mauryamj@programming.dev 4 months ago
Where is the cheese part story
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I sympathize with the bottom part so much. My parents absolutely refused to cook anything ever and bought the worst, most unhealthy prepackaged foods from the grocery stores. I spent the first years of my life thinking that things like apples just weren’t sold at my local Kroger. I felt like shit mentally and physically for pretty much the first 18 years of my life because of it.
I grew up, moved out, and holy shit I love eating “rabbit food,” as my dad used to call it and I never would have learned before is that cooking is fun
cm0002@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Did you to wish you could fuck your friends mom‽
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes but that was irrelevant because she never cooked for me, she was just hot. Still is, in fact.
We always joke that he has a Wine Mom. He thinks that we’re calling her a drunk. It means that she gets better with age.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 months ago
We all did. The hot moms anyway. The big milfy moms, I just wanted them to make me some food.
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Love the interrobang.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 4 months ago
I feel you. I weirdly did have vegetables and things growing up, but my mom self admittedly hates cooking. So most of what we ate consisted of casseroles made up of things dumped out of a can and any veggies likely also came from a can and we’re heated up on the stove. She also over cooked all the meat to make sure people wouldn’t get sick. So all the veggies were bland and mushy and all the meat was dry as fuck. I’ll never forget the first time I ate fresh pineapple at my inlaws house and it was one of the best things I ever tasted. I’m pretty good at cooking now and I’ve managed to help my mom improve in all ways as well. She now uses a meat thermometer that I got her for Christmas. I cooked her some fresh broccoli in a pan with salt, pepper, and garlic powder and she loved it and started making hers that way instead of boiling it. Baby steps, but we’re making progress.
aiden@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Rabbit food? What the fuck
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Some dudes live their whole lives afraid their balls will fall off and roll away if they eat anything but brown meat.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
In the 90s people started suggesting eating veggies occasionally and the American populace reacted predictably, i.e. as if someone were threatening to literally emasculate them.
Kind of like the modern anti-vax/anti-mask freaks.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve heard it be said from many men that I knew growing up that the more processed food is, the better, because it kills all the germs that come out of the ground. I’ve not seen that man eat anything green that wasn’t on top of a fast food cheeseburger in all my years alive.