Posted on 06/16/2021 10:21:54 AM PDT by mylife
Yesterday Green Giant revealed the results of a survey taken to determine America’s favorite vegetable. It turns out our nation’s number-one vegetable is broccoli. That seems right to me, because broccoli rules. The two runners up were carrots and corn. All these picks are excellent vessels for butter and cheese.
As always, there’s some fun tidbits thrown in with the survey. Tomatoes and cucumbers (which are both fruit, but who’s keeping track, really), were favorites in 2020, but didn’t make the 2021 list. While corn was chosen as the most popular vegetable in seven times more states in 2021 than in 2020, it still didn’t win. It’s also the favorite vegetable among Americans between the ages of 55 and 72. That’s oddly specific, but okay!
The West Coast couldn’t care less about broccoli; it’s all about the carrots over there, while folks on the East Coast are big fans of the cruciferous vegetable. In general, most people chose broccoli over all the other vegetables because they simply like the way broccoli tastes. At the same time, although it won, it’s losing ground to carrots: the number of states that picked carrots as their favorite increased by 500% this year, while broccoli’s popularity fell by 23%.
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except it was in 1975 ...We finally got MRE’s in ‘72, I think.
Where are the sweet peas??
Fresh spinach salad with mushrooms, bacon+ dressing of oil and vinegar. Love
Fresh spinach. Will eat frozen spinach, but as for canned...
forgetaboutit! Popeye is welcome to the entire case.
Broccoli is a favorite (fresh and frozen, as is asparagus (fresh only)
George H W Bush despised broccoli. Good! I’ll take his share.
Yep, potatoes and it’s not even close.
Beats both butternut and acorn....IMHO.
Company C, 2/12 Cav, Fort Hood ... we were still eating C-rations during our field exercises, 1975-1977. We didn’t see MREs until 1978, just before I transferred out of the infantry ...
Is this based on what they sell? I like broccoli, but I like potatoes and zucchini more.
I read some time back that corn was no longer classified a vegetable by some foodie outfit. It was changed to a starch (which makes sense).
Green beans and asparagus mo better.
I’m a cauliflower kinda person myself, maybe because it goes so well with carrots ;)
Likely because you don't batter and fry it. Okra and tomatoes is like eating snot.
"If you think it's butter...."
“my favorite vegetable is asparagus.”
YEP! Especially with a bit of Hollandaise.
Although my favorite by far is tomatoes (but it’s a fruit.)
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
“no one mentioned zucchini.”
I kinda forgot about zucchini until recently.
Found this a few years ago, love this and will be making it tomorrow.
https://saramoulton.com/2011/01/crispy-zucchini-sticks-with-olive-dip/
I do that with eggplant. I was growing a round variety and it worked out well. A great computer snack!!
How do you cook it?
Haven’t bought it for years, but I do like it.
I use reg unseasoned bread crumbs and not panko...but everyone to their own.
So I sit at my computer...and munch. So good. Darn...now I want some. Tomorrow!!
My latest potato discovery...dip wedges into cornstarch and fry...with whatever seasoning you like. Only started using the cornstarch this year....yummy...
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