• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Never understood the veggie hate, even as a kid. My brother still avoids them and he’s 30. I’m genuinely surprised he hasn’t contracted scurvy.

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      5 months ago

      I can explain. My parents just made bland, steamed vegetables. Idiots never learned to season and make vegetables tasty. Like it’s so easy.

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      5 months ago

      Relevant Mr lovenstein

      For me personally growing up, everyone just steamed them into a wet tasteless mush. This is not the way. Almost all of them are good sauted or baked, even brussel sprouts with a bit of salt and a dash of oil

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        Part of it, too, is selective breeding (aka genetic modification, but that’s a dirty word).

        https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/

        Edit: I may be misinformed. I thought selective breeding was technically considered GM, but it sounds like only editing outside of breeding might be what qualifies. Didn’t mean to make this post about technicalities, just meant to point out that genetics has also played a part in arguably more palatable plants.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      Children are generally adverse to bitter tasting things. Hunter gatherer poison defense. Some folks are just more acutely sensitive to it.

      Usually it’s brassicas that cause that yuck reaction. Cabbage, broccoli, cale.

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        My wife insists that broccoli is disgusting.

        I like it. It’s not like super flavorful or anything, but I’ll roast and salt a little broccoli for something to add to my fettuccine. She always passes and refuses to even try it.

        More for me.

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        It’s weird for me then because I loved vegetables as a kid but I still hate bitter things. I don’t enjoy beer or coffee. Can’t get enough broccoli or asparagus though.

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          Beer and coffee you can aquire pretty easily if you want to, because of the drugs. I’m fat enough without beer though, so it’s still nasty to me. I speak with such confidence because I aquired a taste for campari which is about as bitter as Satan’s asshole. I hated it at first, just putting it on my tongue was an exercise in torture. Now I like it.

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      5 months ago

      FYI, people who do not eat any fruit or vegetables (on the carnivore diet) do not get scurvy.

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      Most people are already hitting their nutrients, which reduces vegetables down to empty mass. They have very little caloric value, so eating them is a waste of time and of stomach capacity. And the human body knows this fact, so it reacts to the taste of vegetables the same way it reacts to sawdust.

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          5 months ago

          Trans rights are human rights, but a society that truly accepts trans people will transcend both binary gender and the cultural construct of human species, creating a utopia of infinite diversity in gender identity, species identity, and forms of identity few people alive today can imagine.