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I would have to go with turnips. Incredibly versatile and nutritious root, plus delicious greens to fry up

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[โ€“] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seems weird to me to hate cabbage, but I suppose there is a certain association with certain very bland cooking? Idk.

[โ€“] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I garnered a very low opinion of pretty much all vegetables during childhood that persisted well into adulthood, because I grew up in a household that only ever prepared them one of two ways: raw, or boiled.

Doesn't matter what it was. Carrots, peas, corn, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, green beans... the two exceptions being onions (which may have been fried on occasion) or potatoes (which culinarily aren't in the same category). If it was boiled, there'd be a half-assed attempt to make it taste like something again by melting a knob of butter on it and salting it. That's it.

When that's the extent of your culinary range, cabbage has no reason to enter the house, so for us it never did. We just assumed it would be shit if you prepared it that way. And we were probably right. Boiled cabbage is what the poor Bucket family was said to have eaten every day in Willy Wonka. Doesn't paint a glamorous picture.

I'm only just now coming around to the concept of vegetables tasting good when you, like, y'know, actually cook them well. Haven't given cabbage a fair shake yet, though.

[โ€“] Ashtear@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to hate cabbage because my father boiled the crap out of it with corned beef every St. Patrick's Day. Disgusting.

Then I discovered stir fry, okonomiyaki, kimchi. Now it's a favorite.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cabbage boiled with corn beef sounds legit amazing. Is that an Irish thing?

[โ€“] Ashtear@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Irish-American, yeah.

Maybe it'd be better if it wasn't boiled into a limp mess. ๐Ÿ™„

[โ€“] CA0311@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

its really good lol

[โ€“] ninjakitty7@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Iโ€™ve become a cabbage hater. Cabbage soup smells like cabbage farts and it actually makes me gag.

[โ€“] zzzzzz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago