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Brussel Sprouts can disappear forever with no loss to anyone as the Devil's Testicles were never meant for consumption anyway, going by the flavor.

Wow. Today I learn that a ton of people on here have had brussel sprouts prepared terribly...how the hell are you people having them cooked?!

Try sautéing in butter, garlic, leeks, and a little bit of balsamic vinegar, and get them so the edges are a bit blackened and crispy. I could eat them all night.

You sorry bastards probably had them boiled...and Shepherd Book left the people who cook them that way out of his speech about "a special place in hell".

But then I will just eat the Butter garlic and vinegar and ignore the sprouts.

Apparently a lot of people have a gene that makes Brussels Sprouts taste very bitter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16289391

Personally I love them, one of the great pleasures of the winter season, along with parsnips.

Love sprouts!!!! Could have them with every thing.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

Try sautéing in butter, garlic, leeks, and a little bit of balsamic vinegar, and get them so the edges are a bit blackened and crispy. I could eat them all night.

Sautée a piece of cardboard in butter, garlic leeks and a bit of balsamic vinegar and it will taste good.

Not brussels sprouts, not even that can save them.

Cauliflower and Artichokes, both are disgusting... Cauliflower more than Artichokes though. Brussels Sprouts take third.

Bean sprouts.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Wow. Today I learn that a ton of people on here have had brussel sprouts prepared terribly...how the hell are you people having them cooked?!

Try sautéing in butter, garlic, leeks, and a little bit of balsamic vinegar, and get them so the edges are a bit blackened and crispy. I could eat them all night.

You sorry bastards probably had them boiled...and Shepherd Book left the people who cook them that way out of his speech about "a special place in hell".

If it takes all that to make a vegetable taste good, then it is not a good tasting vegetable.


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 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
Cauliflower and Artichokes, both are disgusting... Cauliflower more than Artichokes though. Brussels Sprouts take third.

Woah there, don't you go take my cauliflower cheese from me!

I think most of you are nuts. Vegetables are the cheese whizz for the most part. Except brussel sprouts. Those can go straight to hell for all I care

I actually never had brussel sprouts.. Had no idea they were so hated. Is it a childhood thing, mom forced kids to eat them, but they wanted mac & cheese, so they taught themselves to hate them even to this day?

Now I'm convinced I won't like them either, and will probably never ever eat them. Which is fine by me, save room for bacon.

There is a gene that makes Brussels Sprouts taste very bitter to some people. It isn't as widely hated as it might appear from this thread. Sprouts are a standard part of British Christmas Dinner.

Death to Cauliflower! 'Orrible stuff. Very little flavour.

Only time I've found it palatable was tiny florets of it in mayo mixed with sliced Radish - and even then it was 'ok' and no more.

Or hey. Avocado, because I have it on good authority Hipsters are exclusively powered by them, so we could do society a favour?

As the last of the neanderthal I have a hatred for vegetables equal to the breath of a thousand hyenadons. It cannot be limited to just one so:

*brussel sprouts
*greens
*okra
*cauliflower
*egg plant
*well just about any plant thats not a fruit, nut, or bean except for spices and peppers.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
There is a gene that makes Brussels Sprouts taste very bitter to some people. It isn't as widely hated as it might appear from this thread. Sprouts are a standard part of British Christmas Dinner.

Brussel sprouts and asparagus are probably the only vegetables I actually like, rather than just tolerate. To each their own!

I'll take everyone's sprouts if they take celery.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
I'll take everyone's sprouts if they take celery.

Good call. Celery poisons everything with its flavor.

There's not a single veggie I can think of I hate any more. It used to be beets and cauliflower as a kid, but they're okay.

Nobody's mentioned lima beans or asparagus yet which are fairly standard, but I like both of those.

One of my least favorites actually is the tomato, at least by itself. Diced or sliced with other things tomatoes are fine but on its own...especially those small bite size ones...ugh, the way they gush in your mouth like a sour eyeball. Ick.

 amanita wrote:
One of my least favorites actually is the tomato, at least by itself. Diced or sliced with other things tomatoes are fine but on its own...especially those small bite size ones...ugh, the way they gush in your mouth like a sour eyeball. Ick.

If I'm going to get pedantic, tomatoes are fruit.

 chromedog wrote:
Kale.

Just because.

Mushrooms aren't a vegetable.

This... but not "just because." And, I don't mind the flavor of them, I just wish every wannabe health food junkie, vegan cross-fit hipster d-bag would STFU about them. Fething hell.


I'm a fairly nose/sight/texture eater, so a lot of things I haven't eaten because they smell horrible, look horrible, or have horrible texture... So I'd be cool with getting rid of them. Sometimes it's only a contextual banishment. For instance, lettuce, tomato and the like are fine as food go. But you can get them right the hell away from a perfectly good burger. If I wanted a salad with my burger, I'll get it on the side, than you very much.

Cous cous. It serves no function other than to be bitty and horrible.

Also all vegitables are organic since they contain carbon #technicallycorrect=bestkindofcorrect

 Soteks Prophet wrote:
Cous cous. It serves no function other than to be bitty and horrible.

Couscous is just a very small noodle.

Cucumbers. I've seen the way my girlfriend lovingly eyes them at the store. Nobody should be made to feel so woefully inadequate by a vegetable.


Ever wonder why there happens to be so many female vegans? Once they go green, meat no longer satisfies.

Celery has got to go , like eating vinegar or something , reminds me of work smells and I work in a hospital so not good

Oh I totally forgot asparagus, stuff is vile, and the mere thought of steamed asparagus is enough to initiate my gag reflex. Much like Brussels Sprouts, they are bitter and gross.

Brussel sprouts. Can't stand them.

As for Cauliflower, it's in at least 1 meal per week for us. We grate it for a rice replacement in meals, roast it with some oil, salt, and pepper, or just have it with some ranch dressing. Good stuff!


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 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Hm. As a vegetarian

Found him!!!

 kronk wrote:

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Hm. As a vegetarian

Found him!!!

Yep. We are everywhere. We cook your meals. We haul your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not feth with us. (Or else you'll be Brussels sprouted!)

I generally have a great dislike for stuff that tastes excessively bitter. I have never in my life finished a cup of coffee, and I generally only manage green tea with copious amounts of honey added.

However, artichoke, brussel sprouts, and asparagus are some of my favorite vegetables, when well prepared. Melting butter and/or using olive oil and seasoning with salt, pepper, and garlic, then almost blackening them is a particularly tasty recipe.

That said, I do not tolerate cucumber, and squashes/zucchini are nothing to be desired, either. Honorable mention to celery, that starts out as horrendous as cucumber, but once the bitter juice is gone, I have sometimes tricked myself into chewing on the remaining fibrous material like gum. But that's not eating, it's a deliberate workout.

I think what has been more interesting than the fact people have a vegetable they dislike, which really isn't a surprise, is how sensitive some are about others not liking the same vegetable they do.

 -Loki- wrote:
Brussels. fething. Sprouts.

Taste like absolute gak. The only way I've heard someone tell me to make them taste better is to drown them in balsamic vinegar and bake them. After which, they taste like balsamic vinegar, which isn't making the sprout itself taste better, just replacing the taste.

The trick is to burn them. Seriously. Cut them, spray them with olive oil, add a dash of salt and pepper and then bake them at 400 degrees or more until they burn around the edges. They taste better when burned, almost sweet. You can also cook them in a frying pan, but it's more labor intensive.

Cauliflower is best steamed until mushy, to me, but it also roasts well when mixed with butternut squash, carrots, and sweet/normal potatoes. The combination of flavors works. Cauliflower rice is also a thing at Trader Joes, but I've only had it when doused with simmer sauce, so my evaluation is biased.

I haven't had eggplant since college because my wife hates it, but I remember it being a very sauce-forgiving vegetable, like broccoli. The better the sauce, the better the veggie.


There aren't really a whole lot of veggies I dislike, but by God if you force me to eat raw tomato seeds in that bog corpse-textured placental goo that gushes out with them, we will have words. Such words. The angriest words.