Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs

broccoli is like anal sex… if you’re forced to have it as a kid, you’re not gonna like it as an adult

This is awful lolol
This is a relatable comparison
- 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
Holy shit
This checks out but dude you need Charter.

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.

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.
- Any word on if this impacts nutrition?
- Brussels Sprouts are another one... I don't think I had properly cooked Brussels sprouts until I was in my mid-to-late-20s, and they've become one of my favorite vegetables. They're so fucking good dude.
Doesn't help a lot of people used to just boil broccoli without seasoning. Doesn't do the flavor any favors.
- 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.
That's interesting. Do you have any sources on this phenomenon?
- This one, for example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4654709/
  Or this one: https://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: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/05/526750174/why-taste-buds-dull-as-we-age
- his source is that he made it the fuck up!
  _{*(MGR:R joke)*}
I always assumed this is also why adults love disgusting cheese (I do to a degree as well nowadays). We just lost our sense of taste and call it refined taste.
- 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.

Broccoli is so good it makes me horny too. I fucking love broccoli.

But, do you love fucking broccoli?
- What happens at the farmers market stays at the farmers market
- It was, "I, fucking, love broccoli."

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

Glad to see some scientific stuff under a "I would fuck his mom for serving broccoli" content.
I hate having this gene variant, so many things taste bad. People judge you, it's hard to order at restaurants, etc.

Broccoli tossed in olive oil, cooked in an air fryer until crispy and then sprinkled with course salt. Delicious 👌🏼

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.
- Do people not like spinach stalks? It's like my favorite part... adds a tiny bit of crunch/texture.
- Your recipe sounds really good as well. I'll definitely give it a try
You forgot garlic. Copious amounts of garlic at every step.
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?
Now 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
- 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

Broccoli and cheese is awesome. Other preparations like steamed are not as delicious, but ymmv.

Steamed broccoli with a little soy sauce & Sriracha is one of my absolute favorite snacks. Cauliflower, too. I'm gonna go make some.
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.
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
- It wasn't just your family.

well that escalated quickly

You never wanted to fuck your friend's mom?
- I mean... yeah. But after you hit thirty and you can have all the milfs you want. It's free moms.

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.

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.
- 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.
- It reads like a 1 star recipe review

Well, german but Broccoli and cauliflower with breadcrumbs and butter. Grandma always made this, which is why i liked it as a kid.

Broccoli rules, one of my favorite veggies, along with carrots and fresh green beans.

Throw asparagus in there and I’m in.

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.

Cauliflower
- Yeah I was going to say this. Cauliflower is like the "plain" version of broccoli lol
Mandelbrotcolli
Broccoli in Thai curry is the way! So good!
- To be fair, everything is good in Thai curry.
That's my favourite thing about broccoli - I take a bite from the bushy part and get an explosion of flavor

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.

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.
- 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.
- Maybe, but brussel sprouts still taste like shit.
  Broccoli is and always has been really good, if cooked correctly.
Brussel sprouts are so easy to make good as well, just put them in the oven at like 400 with some oil and a bit of salt

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie

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.

Honestly, I would be suspicious of any kid who doesn't like eating miniature trees.

Nice to read about a person that so appreciated the kindness of another that they were willing to extend a kindness to them

Same for meatloaf

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.

Did you get sick a lot as a kid? Like long term, not just related to food?
- I don't think so, no. Why?

https://i.imgur.com/qMTjF4U.gif

It's the only cooked vegetable my kids like.

Have your kids heard the good news of our lord and savior, Brussels sprouts?
What, no sweet carrots?
- Nope

Btw, Broccoli is a superfood.

Bacon is a superfood
Raw potatoes are a superfood
Poppy seeds are a superfood
Vodka is a superfood
*because superfood is a meaningless marketing term
- To be fair bacon, potatoes and vodka are all top-tier.
- Your mom's a superfood

Where is the cheese part story