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From: Gareth John on 26 Jan 2010 04:44 D.M Prosciutto <dum(a)dummy.com> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:14:57 +0000, Sara Merriman wrote: > > > In article <7s68naFuahU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > > Rod <polygonum(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > >> On 25/01/2010 10:01, Jim wrote: > >> <> > >>>> > >>>> There's a brassica continuum, from cauliflower which I find quite > >>>> pleasant in some cases (e.g. a good aloo gobi), through brocolli and > >>>> cabbage to sprouts which make me feel sick to think of. > >> > >> Interesting (or not) - as far as I can see, the entire sprouts thread > >> has been written by males. Is there a gender divide on the subject? Or > >> just the usual skew of posters? > > > > I'm not a male. I adore sprouts, they're one of my very favourite veg. > > That's great, but do you make loud farts after eating them? For that you need jerusalem artichokes - not very many, mind. G. -- From Gareth John Please pull out the plug if you want to reply by email
From: Dr Geoff Hone on 26 Jan 2010 04:52 On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:17:38 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> I propose calling it Cole's Law, on the basis that this was partly brought >> about by cabbage. > >In that case, should't it be called 'Kale's Law'? Kale's Law is better. Coles Law is just shredded cabage.
From: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Jan 2010 05:10 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: [snip] > > Actually, you're just depriving yourself because you're all mental. > > ok, just so I have got you there, we are mental as we are not the ones > that go on a rant becasue someone doesn't like the same vegatable as us? > > ok! Huh? Woody, go swallow some risperidone. You've gone completely mental, lost it, man overboard - you've gone loopy. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Jan 2010 05:10 Gareth John <g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com> wrote: [snip] > But judging by the way my (and my children's) tastes shifted over time, > I think the sprout/cabbage business might be developmental rather than > genetic. I think young children might be uunusally sensitive to certain > bitter qualities (human breast milk is astonishingly sugary). It's more that adults lose the childhood sensitivity. That's no hypothesis (you mis-named your suggestion): it's backed up by measurement. It's nailed down fact. Any theory about it comes later - I expect the medics have some waffle to justify their ideas. I'll wait until the biologists and chemists report. > Over time, according to my theory, the need to avoid the bitter flavours > recedes in many people, but not in some others, who therefore continue > to find sprouts repulsive. That's more of a learned thing - you learn to avoid things that you think you ought to avoid, and the longer the avoidance the more you want to avoid the thing. > It's not just sprouts either. One of my > (adult) children still shies away from some varieties of salad greens, > for example, that I find enjoyable. I've seen a child who totally and utterly found food X utterly and totally disgusting and wouldn't eat it, protesting loudly that it was disgusting - utterly. Then his brother told him he liked it. And he then ate it all up happily. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: T i m on 26 Jan 2010 05:21
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:44:09 +0000, g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com (Gareth John) wrote: >Over time, according to my theory, the need to avoid the bitter flavours >recedes in many people, but not in some others, who therefore continue >to find sprouts repulsive. And that's the thing isn't it, the fact those of us who experience this phenomenon do actually describe such as 'disgusting'. I mean, we don't say we just don't like them that much ... or we prefer something else, but that the taste really is fairly unpleasant. And that's what used to annoy me with my Mum, trying to get me to eat them because 'they' liked them, 'she'd cooked them' and they were 'good for me'. I don't like pumpkin much either but Mum gave me a batch of her pumpkin, Swede and carrot soup yesterday and it was ok (because the pumpkin was masked by he other flavours). As an aside I probably have a sweet tooth but unlike some don't get the 'too sickly' thing. The Mrs for example couldn't eat a whole Mars bar. Cheers, T i m |