I agree on Eggplant. SO GORGEOUS - but worthless as far as nutrition and taste go. You have to smother them in something else to make them the least bit palatable. It’s like eating a slice of sponge or...Wonder Bread!
And some people feel the same way about Mushrooms - but I could LIVE on a steady diet of Mushrooms.
*SHRUG*
(Hate-Posts from the Pro-Eggplant Contingency WILL be deleted, LOL!)
I looooove mushrooms. I refuse to grow either eggplant or zucchini, on the grounds that in the time it takes for me to make it palatable, I could’ve fixed two other sides plus an entree.
A gardening writer I follow, David the Good (look him up on Amazon - he’s *hilarious*) did an article on the top ten best food plants for survival in an emergency. It ran along the lines of “winter squash, beans, this, that and the other thing, and...I should tell you to grow that squash thing that starts with a Z, but I refuse because then you might do it and the world doesn’t NEED any more of that plant.”