American to English question

[silver apple]

Evil, foul tasting green vegetable. Mums (who might be loving people at any other time of year) force their children to eat them with Christmas lunch, for some unknown reason.

My children LOVE sprouts They would happily sit down to a huge bowl of them

My girlfriends sister did the meanest thing ever one Christmas, involving brussel sprouts. The night before her Christmas Party at work, she got a box of Ferrero Rocher and cut them all open with a sharp knife. She then removed all the goo and nut from inside them, placed a cooked brussel sprout inside and re-sealed them all using melted cooking chocolate. The next day she just placed them on the table at work with all the other nibbles, and laughed her head off every time someone bit into one and realised with horror that there were sprouts inside them
It's proper put me off eating Ferrero Rocher since!

Very funny

 

[BethEJo]

Whenever I think of brussel sprouts, I think of the Vicar of Dibley...and the sprout eating contest she had at Christmas

Haha we tried that once - it's hard lol! And not pretty either

as a PP said, they're good stir fried with bacon. They're good when cooked with walnuts too!

 

[Dimplenose]

My children are 16 and 19 and have never eaten a sprout. We live in a sprout free household.

I always remember this tasteless joke

"What is the difference between a Brussel sprout and a bogey?"
You can't get a small boy to eat a sprout.

 

[T16GEM]

dh likes them, but I am not a fan!

 

[hotfudgesundae]

One particular Sunday I found I had forgotten to buy cabbage for Sunday Lunch but I did have sprouts and as my DD and DS didnt like sprouts I mashed them up with butter and told them it was cabbage.

Unfortunately they knew better and have never forgiven me they still talk about it now and it was over 20 years ago.

 

[wdwnut76]

Thanks, everyone, for answering my question!

yep sprouts are only to be eaten at christmas

I have to admit...I'm not a fan of Brussel Sprouts either. As far as "special" Christmas food, I think I'll stick with an old family recipe, passed down from a ancestor who was a cook in an English house in the 1800s: Plum Pudding!

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[wilma-bride]

I hate sprouts as do all 3 kids (even DD and DS who eat pretty much anything and everything - that just goes to show how bad they are). DH isn't that fond of them but always eats them at Christmas anyway just because it's tradition