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Broccoli's a wonder veg

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Oh look, the Daily Mail is making health claims again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Broccoli, bit of HP sauce..delish


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    I actually never got why people dont like broccoli:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    If the Daily Mail was told a veg was full of glucobullshitoo, it would prob run that story too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Tornaxx


    I think people don't like broccoli because it's an awkward and ugly looking vegetable. I've eaten it twice this week, but only because first I mutilated it in a blender with other equally ugly vegetables but saved it with chillis to make an utterly magnificent soup (and not because of this story).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    I actually never got why people dont like broccoli:confused:

    I don't like it because it tastes like broccoli


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Next week's headline will be it causes cancer, probably due to illegal immigration and the BBC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    But Princess Di touched it in a dream, and now it's a wonder food.....


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ah yes. The Daily Mails ongoing mission to split the entire world into things that cause cancer and things that cure it. Sometimes putting things into BOTH categories - such as coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,227 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Tomorrow in the Daily Mail:

    "Cruciferous Vegetables found to cause Cancer"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Hmmmm, real dilemma now. Love Broccoli, hate the Daily Mail. What will I do?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    5uspect wrote: »
    Oh look, the Daily Mail is making health claims again.

    The Daily Mail, up there with the BMJ and the Lancet.

    With added Hitler.

    (I love broccoli though.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    FFS, the brocolli was doing fine on its own , minding its own business, and then the Dail Mail had to go and do an exclusive expóse!
    Apparently the Daily Mail are planning a story for tomorrow on how Calabrese is not only cancerous, it is also underming the morality of young children!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Love broccoli... steamed, covered in butter.... mmmmmm, nom.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Wasn't this on Corrie on Friday with Royston claiming that organic Broccoli had anti carcinogenic qualities?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Tornaxx


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Tomorrow in the Daily Mail:

    "Cruciferous Vegetables found to cause Cancer"

    No, it'll be "Cruciferous Vegetables found to cause Crucifixions". It wasn't the Romans (or the Jews) after all!

    Jesus!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    I can see a price raise for broccoli now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Noxin


    Steamed broccoli, a bit of steak and some pepper sauce...

    Ohh lawd that is good!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    SamHall wrote: »
    Broccoli is a superfood.

    I thought everyone knew that.

    Rubbish.

    Firstly, 'superfood' is a stupid phrase.
    Secondly, if one were to call any food a 'superfood' then it would be eggs or liver, two of the most nutrient dense foods there are.
    (nutrition comparison betweem vegetables/fruits and liver)
    it took 5 pounds and 850 calories of fruit to roughly equal the nutrition of 4 ounces and 150 calories of beef liver
    Thirdly, if anyone mention acai berries as being superfoods, so help me.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    I'd rather eat toe cheese.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    Noxin wrote: »
    Steamed broccoli, a bit of steak and some pepper sauce...

    Ohh lawd that is good!

    That's my dinner tonight, minus the pepper sauce and plus a bottle of good burgundy.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    So broccoli is racist now?

    Good. Never liked the stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    ha ha
    Next time your child asks why they have to eat broccoli,

    except my daughter and I love brocolli, my husband won't eat it because of something he saw on South park and Family guy about brocolli being evil :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Broccoli is one of those vegetables that makes you think you may as well just chew on a bush in your garden instead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    I used to love broccoli, then one day while eating one, a nice plump caterpillar fell from the 'tree part', dead obviously from boiling. Nice!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/31/article-2381709-12917381000005DC-334_306x402.jpg

    Image in the article is either begging to be photoshopped or has already been photoshopped.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    I wouldn't be big into broccoli now because I used it every day, several times a day when I was serious about gym and diet, but yeah it's a great vegetable... Seeing as I'm starting that routine again, I'm looking forward to getting back together...

    *Forever alone*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    Jeez was beginning to wonder was it a broccoli thread or Daily Mail hater thread.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I love all green vegetables, love love love them. Vegetables of other colours turn my stomach though, am I weird?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Hmmmm, real dilemma now. Love Broccoli, hate the Daily Mail. What will I do?

    Eat your broccoli and use the Daily as toilet paper later. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Broccoli destroys my digestive system, was farting constantly for a week last time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    hoodwinked wrote: »
    ha ha

    except my daughter and I love brocolli, my husband won't eat it because of something he saw on South park and Family guy about brocolli being evil :confused:
    Are you married to a child?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,950 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Would love a plate of General Tso's chicken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,787 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Never liked the stuff until I learned how to cook it nicely. At home, it was always boiled and just didn't have a nice texture, but a german friend gave me a tip which kinda works with almost any veg.

    Parboil the broccoli in shallow boiling water for 2 mins (so it is not rubbery and still crunchy). Drain water and add in a big knob of butter. Cook for 5 mins and season with salt and pepper. Delicious :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Broccolli with almonds dripping in butter... yummmm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    It's lovely when you cover it with other things to hide the taste.

    But that's ok as taste is not that important. I (try to) eat what's healthy. Like my lunch today in the canteen...1 piece of pork & 3 vegatables that I don't actually like.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,378 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    5uspect wrote: »
    Oh look, the Daily Mail is making health claims again.
    This can only mean one thing ... :pac:

    Broccoli gives you cancer.

    http://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/sep/06/medicalscience.healthandwellbeing
    Broccoli, apples, onions, oranges, strawberries, lemons and mushrooms all contain acetaldehyde, a natural by-product of oxidation and a known human carcinogen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    Broccoli destroys my digestive system, was farting constantly for a week last time

    When my mum used to make it my brother would go on about "broccoli farts" all through dinner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    I love broccoli but my fella doesn't. He calls them mini trees. He may branch out a bit veg wise :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Steam it and butter it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    I boil it for a couple of mins then swish it around a frying pan of olive oil just long enough to coat it. Delicious!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    I eat it most days. Stem and all. Just cut an X about 1/2 in. Goes with most meat and veg. Now I know why Daily Mail haters look so washed out. We should start a Ruddy-faced Broccoli Fan Club out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    It's lovely when you cover it with other things to hide the taste.

    But that's ok as taste is not that important. I (try to) eat what's healthy. Like my lunch today in the canteen...1 piece of pork & 3 vegatables that I don't actually like.

    What? No lettuce?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    They discovered that a chemical found solely in the vegetable helps maintain the health of the tiny ‘batteries’ which power the body’s cells.
    Could I eat actual batteries instead? I imagine they would taste better than broccoli.

    I do like this and this, but the broccoli content is probably too low to be of any benefit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    69c in Aldi for the next 2 weeks....yum yum :)


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