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[Food] The annual 'are you having sprouts' thread

Are you having sprouts?

  • Yes

    Votes: 95 78.5%
  • No

    Votes: 26 21.5%

  • Total voters
    121
  • Poll closed .


TomandJerry

Well-known member
Oct 1, 2013
11,367
Well, good folk of NSC...will sprouts be featuring on your Christmas dinner plates this year?
 








Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
23,102
Sussex by the Sea
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A 2011 study by Cornwall College found that sprouts contain a chemical, similar to phenylthiocarbamide, which only tastes bitter to people who have a variation of a certain gene. The research found that around 50 per cent of the world’s population have a mutation on this gene. The lucky half don’t taste the bitterness usually associated with sprouts, and therefore like them a whole lot more than everyone else.

#tastelikeshite
 














pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
30,180
West, West, West Sussex
Oh, and because I'm an evil step-dad, my step-daughter will be force fed at least one too. Mwah ha ha
 


Cozzy

New member
Jul 26, 2018
869
Grimsby
sadly No ... I like sprouts but wont have any as not bothering to cook traditional just for me , unless I can get a turkey & sprout pizza.
 




Tim Over Whelmed

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Jul 24, 2007
10,165
Arundel
I love sprouts:

As they are for Christmas Lunch
Mashed with Bubble
Shredded with bird eye chilli and lime juice
Saute with a poached egg

I love sprouts!
 








strings

Moving further North...
Feb 19, 2006
9,965
Barnsley
I love sprouts, except when they are overdone.

For Christmas dinner, they will be fried with bacon and Parmesan. Gorgeous.
 


Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
Helpful Moderator
NSC Patreon
Jul 23, 2003
33,821
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
Yes, chopped up and fried with bacon and onions.

This.

If you dislike sprouts you're not cooking them properly. Bit of butter and olive oil in the pan, soften yer onions (or shallots) and then toss in the bacon. Chuck in the sprouts, a bit more butter and some black pepper and stir fry for a short time (ideally they should still be a bit crunchy). Deeeelicios. We've had this at least three times this winter already.

Plus if anyone mucks about in the evening you can give them the Dutch Oven.
 








Fungus

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
May 21, 2004
7,038
Truro
A 2011 study by Cornwall College found that sprouts contain a chemical, similar to phenylthiocarbamide, which only tastes bitter to people who have a variation of a certain gene. The research found that around 50 per cent of the world’s population have a mutation on this gene. The lucky half don’t taste the bitterness usually associated with sprouts, and therefore like them a whole lot more than everyone else.

#tastelikeshite

That's interesting. I often wonder about fish - everyone else seems to like them, but I don't seem to have the taste-buds that register any flavour at all. Maybe this is a genetic thing, like colour blindness?

BTW, I voted "no" to sprouts, but I actually have ONE every year - just to shut "her" up.
 


Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,324
Uffern
Of course, it's Christmas.

Don't muck around with them though - none of this bacon or parmesan bollocks. I had Christmas dinner with a Spanish friend once and she cooked them with garlic, which seemed vaguely sacrilegious. It's plain, Church of England sprouts for me.
 



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