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> The popular preparation used to be boiling or steaming, and many people still find that gross with modern varieties. What is wrong with people? They're delic
by magicalhippo 3y ago
> The popular preparation used to be boiling or steaming, and many people still find that gross with modern varieties.
What is wrong with people? They're delicious, and an absolute must along side a reindeer roast with a creamed mushroom sauce, or similar. Steamed of course.
Though I did learn the hard way as a kid that they can be rather harsh on the stomach when raw...
- bobthepanda 3y agowith those methods, if you overcook it is pretty much game over. roasting tends to be more forgiving
- tomcam 3y agoI can agree with the first part. Here in Seattle, commonly known as South Alaska, I always order the McReindeer burger at McDonald’s when it’s in season (they alternate with the NcRib).
- tomcam 3y agoThis might have been marginally funny if I spelled McRib properly
- gweinberg 3y agoWhat's "wrong with people" is they don't like eating poison. You can train yourself to like anything, but the bitter alkaloids that give brussel sprouts and such their nasty bitter taste are indeed a toxin. There isn't enough to be dangerous in modern varieties, but there was in their wild ancestors.
- luckman212 3y agoThere's a saying, The bitter the better Many bitter foods are highly nutritious. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/bitter-foods https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/bitter-foods
- naniwaduni 3y agoBitterness is quite literally the "this is poison, stop eating" taste category that incidentally happens to have a lot of false positives because for the most part it's cheaper to reject some good food than to accept eating some poison. An ironic thing to say in a thread about peppers, but still.
- bmacho 3y agoAnd much much more false negatives, which raises the question if the "stop eating this, this is bitter and bitter means poisonous" has any truth in it.
- PawgerZ 3y agoIf bitter = poisonous, then the plants that evolve to be more bitter will be eaten less. Thus, non-poisonous foods that evolve to be more bitter have a genetic advantage over their less bitter counterparts.
- hollerith 3y agoThat would be true if there were a fitness advantage for the plant when a herbivore dies, but in actually the fitness advantage comes from discouraging the herbivore from eating the plant.
- ahartmetz 3y agoThey are much less bitter if the plants had been exposed to frost before harvesting. My parents used to have them in the garden. Brussels sprouts in winter were nice.
- magicalhippo 3y agoNever had to train myself, always just liked them, and they don't taste particularly bitter. So I had a hunch it was like cilantro, and seems there's indeed a genetic reason[1]. So fair enough, if they taste bitter I'll accept it's not a nice side dish. [1]: https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/12/04/brusselssprouts/ https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/12/04/brusselssprouts/
- iopq 3y agoThey are bitter, and not in a tasty way, but in an overpowering gross way
- danparsonson 3y agoMushroom sauce?? What's wrong with you?! ;-)
- magicalhippo 3y agoHehe. I should have specified it's wild mushrooms, we have a lot of funnel chanterelle[1] (do not confuse it with deadly webcap[2] which can grow alongside) and regular chanterelle by our cabin, so usually that's what we use. Makes for a quite delicious sauce. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus_tubaeformis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus_tubaeformis [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_rubellus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_rubellus
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- fuzztester 3y ago:) >What is wrong with people? De gustibus ...
- lukas099 3y agoWhat do you plebs even eat with your reindeer roast?