Source: https://www.deathbulge.com/comics/447

Great timing, hell was running low on broccoli due to routinely forcefeeding them to everyone. (For the record I don't mind broccoli, in fact one of my go-to meals is mashing it into mash potato until the whole thing turns bright green and then you have it with sausages and gravy, now that's a meal.)
  • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
    7·
    3 days ago

    The reason it is such a recurring theme is that broccoli and sprouts were cultivated to taste good over time. In the recent past, they had a more bitter taste which lead to some generations disliking them.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      3 days ago

      Also that in the recent past, people didn’t know how to cook.

      I grew up with my parents serving me bland and mushy broccoli, and I hated it.

      Now I cook broccoli oven roasted, or pan-cooked and slightly blackened, tossed in olive oil, seasoned well with salt and pepper. Maybe soy and garlic instead if I’m feeling it. Always al-dente and absolutely fucking delicious.

      If I cooked broccoli the way my parents used to, it would still taste like shit - genetically sweeter or not.