Tangential fun fact! Good tasting brussel sprouts are a very recent invention. They used to be a lot more bitter, but a new cultivar was engineered in the 90's

Tangential fun fact! Good tasting brussel sprouts are a very recent invention. They used to be a lot more bitter, but a new cultivar was engineered in the 90's that all but completely eliminated the bitter notes. Over the next 30 years, pretty much everybody has switched over, so now brussel sprouts are just drastically better than they were when they got the reputation for being gross.