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Love it or Hate it: Where Do You Come Down on Kale, Beets, Okra, Brussels Sprouts and Cilantro?
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 04/23/2014 | Martha Ross and Joan Morris

Posted on 04/23/2014 4:14:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: PrairieLady2

Have you ever noticed how similar okra and cotton plants look?


81 posted on 04/23/2014 5:03:06 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: nickcarraway

Kale, I have so little exposure that I have no opinion.

Beets, I enjoy them the way the Greeks handle them, lightly pickled with olive oil, herbs, garlic and diced onion. Just OK done the traditional, very purple way.

Okra, excellent flash-fried and lightly crusted. Excellent in soups, stews and gumbo. Excellent pickled, especially the hot variety. But do not put that drooling, slimy, disgusting mess called stewed okra in front of me, it’s utterly repellant. Okra is a very strange plant in the garden, vaguely evil looking and does not come across as something you’d want to eat. And you don’t if it’s stewed by itself, it forms drool. Clear, stringy, dripping drool.


82 posted on 04/23/2014 5:03:13 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: nickcarraway

Only one I like is beets....can’t stand cilantro.


83 posted on 04/23/2014 5:03:31 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: nickcarraway

As a pescatarian, I love them all when I use them at home. Eating out, all of those items are a crap shoot..


84 posted on 04/23/2014 5:04:41 PM PDT by IamConservative
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To: Steve_Seattle

To sum up: we have a consensus on nothing. This must be a conservative web site. :-)”

That is the funniest comment I have read on here thus far this week. Thanks for the moment of laughter.


85 posted on 04/23/2014 5:05:33 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

my (Flemish) wife has made braised/sauteed brussel sprouts for us for years, we love them. She adds nutmeg which she insists is the secret to authentic sprouts, especially when fresh ground.
She thinks your recipe has potential and she will check it out.
Thanks


86 posted on 04/23/2014 5:05:38 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Steve_Seattle

I understand that it’s genetic, whether you love cilantro or can’t stand it, something about the phytochemicals in it register as a very unpleasant taste to certain people and it’s due to ancestry. Me, I love it.


87 posted on 04/23/2014 5:07:23 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: nickcarraway

I will never eat a beet ever again....I did when I was 5....got sick and never touched one again to this day.


88 posted on 04/23/2014 5:07:34 PM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: al_c

Kale—just another blah green. Cook it with enough bacon and it’s ok. Still, pretty, isn’t it?

Beets—Like them in borscht with sour cream on top. Ok if there in salad, but I don’t put them there.

Okra—Never actually had it freshly battered and fried, so I can’t fairly say.

Brussels Sprouts—I love cabbage, but I hate those smelly little things.

Cilantro—Love it in Mexican food. I find it’s sometimes too much in Thai food because of having so many exotic flavors clashing all at once.


89 posted on 04/23/2014 5:07:38 PM PDT by Hugin
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To: nickcarraway

For those who don’t like cilantro, do you like the seed? - coriander...


90 posted on 04/23/2014 5:07:51 PM PDT by IamConservative
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To: dontreadthis

There is a Dutch dish with Brussels Sprouts mashed into bacon fat. is their a Flemish version of that?


91 posted on 04/23/2014 5:07:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Hate, hate, like, love


92 posted on 04/23/2014 5:11:07 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: DuncanWaring

“Cilantro - dishwashing soap tastes the same and has a longer shelf-life.

I ran across a claim a year or two that liking or disliking cilantro was actually genetically determined.”

I used to think it tasted like soap. Now I use it all the time. It helps my chicken or fish tacos and pico de gallo have “fresh” taste. So, I’m not sure about your genetic claim.


93 posted on 04/23/2014 5:12:05 PM PDT by llmc1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
stirring occasionally until the bacon is crispy.

Who in the world STIRS bacon?

That aside, I must try this recipe, but I will turn my bacon lovingly.

94 posted on 04/23/2014 5:12:09 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: nickcarraway

Cilantro is evil in green form.


95 posted on 04/23/2014 5:14:04 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be," -Epitap)
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To: al_c

Okra is my favorite veg. As long as it is fried and not boiled


96 posted on 04/23/2014 5:14:13 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: nickcarraway

Hate all but the okra. I told my kids when they were little not to ever let anyone force them to eat beets, lol.


97 posted on 04/23/2014 5:15:05 PM PDT by tiki
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To: DuncanWaring

I heard the same claim about broccoli. Some people’s genetic disposition makes it taste absolutely uneatable.


98 posted on 04/23/2014 5:15:11 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: nickcarraway

Veggies work, with enough butter.


99 posted on 04/23/2014 5:15:38 PM PDT by lurk
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To: llmc1; DuncanWaring
A genetic variant near olfactory receptor genes influences cilantro preference

http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2096

100 posted on 04/23/2014 5:15:58 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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