• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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    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.

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      It’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.

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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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          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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            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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              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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        Maybe, but brussel sprouts still taste like shit.

        Broccoli is and always has been really good, if cooked correctly.