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Originally Posted by demoncase
I hate sprouts and that's perfectly fine.
However, can anyone explain to me why sprouts=christmas?....Surely if they were that good we'd be eating the things all year (and don't try the 'oh, seasonal' caper as I can buy strawberrys in the depths of December these days)
It brings to mind the Daily Mash T-shirt: "Happy Birthday Jesus: have a sprout"  |
the sprout is actually the plant gone to seed and was in past times one of the very few greens available in winter , when the plant is touched by frost it improves the flavour .
It,s a tradition that carries on till today even tho as you say we can munch on greens of all kinds all year round , most of the things we eat at xmas have a foot in the past .