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My vote YES ... lovely with Christmas dinner,
but NO on barbecue in July
but NO on barbecue in July
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Lovely with bacon pieces and chestnuts mixed in with them.
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Yes, yes and thrice yes. So long as gravy is at hand, then sprouts are a welcome addition to any meal.
An uncharacteristically w@nky post from rtb then. Unless he was taking the p1ss. |
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Yes
 I thought Roger was being serious  |
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He'll be drizzling them in olive oil next.
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Have to be al dente, though, but au naturel ... no bacon pieces, olive oil, pine nuts etc etc
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Bloody hell, this is what I get when I try and come off as a sophisticate!!
 Try covering them in n0b cheese then, if you must - happy now??! |
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Rosenkohl in German - "rose cabbage", which is what they are really when they're growing on the stalks.
Top tip: do not go into a German greengrocer's and ask whether they have any Bruesselsprossen.  |
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need to be crunchy
they turn into the devils own bollox if over cooked, ghastly things then. |
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Nothing illustrates the average age of the chit-chatter more than this sprout appreciation thread.
Me, I love em, the kids won't go near them though. |
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A definite yes from me.
It's a great shame, as with pancakes that it's only once a year! |
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I buy broccoli through the year and replace it with sprouts when they become available.
But I wouldnt say either were exactly pleasant or owt, just that I had the stuff pushed on me as a kid and told I had to eat the stuff and continued |
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yes
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Dont know.
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YES
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get em eaten hector,or else no puddin
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Sprouts Mexicane,as eaten by Eddy Hitler.
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the Devil's gonads.
A big no from me. |
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YES.
Delicious eaten raw too, to be snacked on when preparing them for the pot. Brings back memories of childhood picking them on dad's allotment in the depths of winter, frozen fingers and sprouts covered with a glaze of ice. Doesn't seem to get that cold these days. |
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Yes ...but God they make you fart !
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No....... used to have just one
 on the plate only on Christmas day - not sure why tbh, but stopped defiling my dinner years ago. |
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A few to garnish the plate.... Any one tried the purple sprouts? seem to be everywhere this year
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I like them, but outside of now rarely think about them. Anyone fermented them and if so what were they like?
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oh yes and being the only one in my family who loves them i get a whole pan full to myself
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Just had a quick check of the voting ...
not biased in any way - mmm lovely crisp sprouts, can't beat them ... anyway, votes so far YES 57  NO 2 DON'T KNOWS 2 SPOILT PAPERS 3  Vote closes sometime later. |
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plenty of farting to be done by chit chatters over xmass
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don't need any sprouts for that
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of course yes. one of my favourites. even eat them raw
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raw aint the torture
overcooking brings out the beastie within |
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many people who 'like' sprouts probably rarely 'taste' em
If you dont aggravate a sprout the flavour doesn't come out, which is probably how many eat them. If you cook em for ages till they go soft then thats the true taste of a sprout imo |
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which is awful btw
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They're delicious with lovely crispy pancetta and a little bit of cream, next to a chunk of roast beef and a pile of roasties.
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i must be the odd one out i like them really soft
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I feel a poem coming on, what with all this sprout-talk ...
Merry chit chatters are having their say And reckon sprouts make intestinal gas But please chit chatters remember this A sprout's not just for Christmas |
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How long does one boil these little rancid greenballs to make them eatable please ?
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Blooming lovely little chaps. Best thing about Christmas.
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NO
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100% yes but must be fresh not frozen. And a cross cut in bottom of stalk.
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Charlie ...
The X cut in the stalk helps the sprout to cook evenly - boiling water penetrates the stalk and centre of the sprout better. I just made that up, but it sounds very plausible. |
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Another fact which may or may not be made up about sprouts is that people can be genetically predisposed to disliking them, because they contain a bitter amide which only people with certain genetic markers can taste.
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