Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWhat is a food that you used to dislike but now enjoy?message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10
arrow-up168arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a food that you used to dislike but now enjoy?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareQuarterSwede@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·3 days agoBrussels sprouts. No one in the 80s-90s knew how to cook them and always overcooked them. Now they’re made roasted and absolutely delicious.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-23 days agoNo wait! I read something about this! Those were totally different brussel sprouts! I guess they came up with a new species that didn’t such so bad and that’s why brussel sprouts suddenly got tolerable. Now I have to go see how much of this is true. Edit: What do you know? All of it! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
minus-square2piradians@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoSeconded. Oven roasted or air fried, they’re little balls of joy. I always got boiled ones in the old days, same with spinach 🤮
minus-squareilli@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agoI keep hearing this, have to bite the bullet and try sometime.
Brussels sprouts.
No one in the 80s-90s knew how to cook them and always overcooked them. Now they’re made roasted and absolutely delicious.
No wait! I read something about this! Those were totally different brussel sprouts! I guess they came up with a new species that didn’t such so bad and that’s why brussel sprouts suddenly got tolerable.
Now I have to go see how much of this is true.
Edit: What do you know? All of it! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
Seconded. Oven roasted or air fried, they’re little balls of joy.
I always got boiled ones in the old days, same with spinach 🤮
I keep hearing this, have to bite the bullet and try sometime.