Brussel sprouts

[Saddle bum]

What is wrong with this year's crop?

Two Xmas dinners so far, both with extra double portion of sprouts - end up farting like a brewery horse. SWMBO decamps for the spare room and even the cat does a runner. It's a windows wide open job in the morning, even I can't stand it. What will happen after the Boxing day meal when pickled onions are added to the intake, dread to think.

[grumbledoak]

Saddle bum said:

What is wrong with this year's crop?

Two Xmas dinners so far, both with extra double portion of sprouts - end up farting like a brewery horse. SWMBO decamps for the spare room and even the cat does a runner. It's a windows wide open job in the morning, even I can't stand it. What will happen after the Boxing day meal when pickled onions are added to the intake, dread to think.

Eh? You've had extra large portions of something that famously causes The Flatulence from Hell, and are baffled by the ensuing wind ?

[Gretchen]

Nothing different from years past then.

On a works dinner one year a friend was picking at left overs on the tables, making cold sprout bread rolls at 2am. The taxi ride home was interesting.

[Le Petomane]

Saddle bum said:

What is wrong with this year's crop?

There is one.

[peterguk]

I have hated them since birth, but always had to eat one with Christmas lunch.

Even now - at 45 i still eat one. Well, if you call swallowing whole eating.

Yuck

[jmorgan]

Devils piles, avoid at all costs. Especially the ones brewed for several hours.

[grumbledoak]

Anyone else remember Ric and Ade's devilled sprouts? Tears of laughter at 'that' scene.

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn...

[thinfourth2]

Get some practice in

[grumbledoak]

thinfourth2 said:

Get some practice in

Lovin' that song!

[Kermit power]

I used to hate them as a kid, but then I grew up and rediscovered them. Wonderful things! Best stir-fried with red onions, pancetta and chestnuts. Gorgeous!

[Gizmo535]

Kermit power said:

I used to hate them as a kid, but then I grew up and rediscovered them. Wonderful things! Best stir-fried with red onions, pancetta and chestnuts. Gorgeous!

I think most of the people who hated them when they were kids because English mothers used to cook them for about three hours. It's totally unnecessary and they're gorgeous - that recipe sounds yum

[jessica]

I have three boys out of 4 who adore them
they eat them on there own with butter.
My bloke on the otherhand hates them even the smell of them cooking. LOL.........
and after.......

[bigburd]

Mate at work hates them but his families ritual means that at Christmas each of them has to have something they don't like - one year he thought he had got away with it - well until he tucked into his present from his Gran ... Homemade Chocolates (well chocolate dipped brussels - hehehehe)

I went to a Christmas Party the other night at Northampton Saints Ground and the caterers there loaded everyone up with Brussels (NOT!) we all had a lone sprout about 1cm in diameter

[Kermit power]

Gizmo535 said:

Kermit power said:

I used to hate them as a kid, but then I grew up and rediscovered them. Wonderful things! Best stir-fried with red onions, pancetta and chestnuts. Gorgeous!

I think most of the people who hated them when they were kids because English mothers used to cook them for about three hours. It's totally unnecessary and they're gorgeous - that recipe sounds yum

They have to keep their crunch!

[cottonfoo]

I like them loads, having some in an hour in fact Doesn't give me wind, cabbage does that to me, much as I like red cababge I don't eat it anymore.

I recommend making sprouts in milk instead of water

[bigburd]

cottonfoo said:

I like them loads, having some in an hour in fact Doesn't give me wind, cabbage does that to me, much as I love redcabbage but I don't eat him anymore

I recommend making sprouts in milk instead of water

Sounds kind of worrying (hope Mrs RedCabbage doesn't know about this!)

Edited by bigburd on Saturday 15th December 21:11

[Tunku]

Saddle bum said:

What is wrong with this year's crop?

Two Xmas dinners so far, both with extra double portion of sprouts - end up farting like a brewery horse. SWMBO decamps for the spare room and even the cat does a runner. It's a windows wide open job in the morning, even I can't stand it. What will happen after the Boxing day meal when pickled onions are added to the intake, dread to think.

The sprouts haven't changed, you have! It's an age thing

[Deltaf01]

I rediscovered sprouts. Used to hate them as a kid but now, god ill eat loads of em. However, they do tend to create a nasty side effect, namely the ability to trumpet out a rather broken version of "How much is that doggy in the window" in one go.

Still, the godawful pong is more than made up for in the hilarity stakes.

I seem to remember a zoo giving loads of these leftover sprouts to the orangutans as a treat one year, only thing is they stunk themselves out and the keepers.
Now whenever sprouts and farts get mentioned i get a flashback of an orangutan with a look of sheer disgust on his face go across my mind.

[jmorgan]

I rediscovered them as well. They are still awful spiteful little things. I have steamed them, stir fried, lightly boiled and still they try to kill me. Best thing is to bury them and hope no evil sprout monsters sprout.

[littlegreenfairy]

Sprouts are my favourite vegetables, with runner beans, red cabbage and brocolli close to the top.

Sprouts this year haven't had a hard frost yet (which makes them taste even better) and they all seem a bit grotty. Maybe its the inclement weather.